ppt课件-如何望远镜 changedour 宇宙-n a s a（ how telescopes changedour universe- n a s a）.pptVIP

How Telescopes Changed our Understanding of the Universe Before Telescopes And we had many questions… Big Question 1: Is Earth or Sun at the center? Galileo observes Venus Big Question 2: How far away are the stars? Parallax if stars were ~5000 times closer Parallax if stars were ~5000 times closer Your eyes marking Earth’s Orbit Background of stars Distance to the stars revealed! Big Question 3: What are the stars made of? Studying the Rainbow What is the Sun made of? Confirmed: The Sun is a Star! Big Question 4: Where is the Sun in our Galaxy? Shapley observes dense star clusters . . . Lo