ASTROPHYSICS

Vigneshwaran Marimuthu
Slide Title
• Nebula
• Dust cloud
• Protostar
• Brown Dwarf
• Main sequence star
• Red giant
• White Dwarf
• Supernova
• Neutron star
• Black hole

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 What is ASTROPHYSICS ?
Astrophysics is a branch of space science that applies the laws of physics and
chemistry to seek to understand the universe and our place in it.

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Nebula

• A nebula is a distinct • Helix nebula

luminescent part of • Crab nebula
interstellar medium, which
can consist of ionized, • Horsehead nebula
neutral, or molecular • Eagle Nebula
hydrogen and also cosmic
dust. Nebulae are often • NGC 6302
star-forming regions, such
as in the "Pillars of
Creation" in the Eagle
Nebula.

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Dust Cloud

• Cosmic dust consists of • Barnard's Loop

tiny particles of solid • IC 5146
material floating around in
the space between the • Flame Nebula
stars. It is not the same as
the dust you find in your
house but more like smoke
with small particles varying
from collections of just a
few molecules to grains of
0.1 mm in size. Dust is
important because we find
lots of it around young
stars.

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ProtoStar

• A protostar is a very young • T Tauri Star

star that is still gathering • Herbig-Haro 46/47
mass from its parent
molecular cloud. The
protostellar phase is the
earliest one in the process
of stellar evolution. For a
low-mass star, it lasts
about 500,000 years.

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Brown Dwarf

• Brown dwarfs are • Gliese 229B

substellar objects that are • hyperjovians
not massive enough to
sustain nuclear fusion of
ordinary hydrogen into
helium in their cores,
unlike a main-sequence
star. Instead, they have a
mass between the most
massive gas giant planets
and the least massive
stars, approximately 13 to
80 times that of Jupiter.

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 Main Sequence Star

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band of stars that appears on plots of
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stellar color versus brightness .Stars on this band are
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are the most numerous true stars in the universe and
include the Sun.

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 Red Gaint
A red giant is a luminous giant star of low or intermediate mass in a late
phase of stellar evolution. The outer atmosphere is inflated and tenuous,
making the radius large and the surface temperature around 5,000 K or lower.
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White Dwarf

• A white dwarf is a stellar • Gliese 229B

core remnant composed • hyperjovians
mostly of electron-
degenerate matter. A white • Sirius B
dwarf is very dense: its
mass is comparable to the • Procyon B
Sun's, while its volume is
comparable to the Earth's.

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SuperNova

• A supernova is what happens • Supernova G347. 3-0.5. ...

when a star has reached the • Supernova SN 1006.
end of its life and explodes in
NASA/CXC.
a brilliant burst of light.
• SN 1054, the Crab Nebula.
• Supernovas can briefly
Credit: ESO.
outshine entire galaxies and
radiate more energy than our • Supernova 3C58.
sun will in its entire lifetime. NASA/CXC/SAO.
They're also the primary
source of heavy elements in
the universe.

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Neutron Star

• A neutron star is the • PSR J0108-1431

collapsed core of a • PSR B1509-58
massive supergiant star,
which had a total mass of
between 10 and 25 solar
masses, possibly more if
the star was especially
metal-rich. Except for
black holes, neutron stars
are the smallest and
densest currently known
class of stellar objects

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Black Hole

• A black hole is a region of • Sagittarius A

spacetime where gravity is • Tar B12
so strong that nothing,
including light or other
electromagnetic waves,
has enough energy to
escape it. The theory of
general relativity predicts
that a sufficiently compact
mass can deform
spacetime to form a black
hole

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