Origin Of Universe

The expanding universe hypothesis. ( Big- Bang Hypothesis ) Mass of hydrogen exploded and moved outward. Condensed and formed into galaxies.

Galaxies and Universe

A galaxy is an enormous group of millions or billions of stars and gas and dust held together by force of gravity.

The shape of galaxy

Conform to four shapes
1. 2. 3. 4. Spiral galaxy Barred spiral galaxy Elliptical galaxy Irregular galaxy

Anatomy of a Galaxy
Nucleus - packed with old red stars Spiral arm young, hot blue stars
- new stars

Galactic Cluster
Galactic cluster = Group of galxies e.g : Local Group - consist of about 30 galaxies - our Milky Way is one of the galaxy located in Local Group

THE MILKY WAY

Home of our Solar system.

Containing about 500,000 stars

Mass - 50 billion and one trilion solar masses Diameter 100,000 light years

The Sun and the earth lie about two-third of the way from the centre.( on the Orion Arm )

Locating the Milky way

Our Milky Way was located in the Local Group with others galaxy , like ; 1. Small Magellanic Cloud 2. Big Magellanic Cloud 3. Andromeda Galaxy

STRUCTURE OF THE

MILKY WAY
Our Milky Way contains stars of many different sizes and colours. It contain planets, thousand of stars, star clusters ,and there are huge clouds of gas and dust between the stars.