MASS: Lance Simms
| What | MASS |
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| When |
08 September 08 from 05:00 pm to 06:00 pm |
| Where | PAB 232 |
| Contact Name | Eric Morganson |
| Contact Email | ericeric@stanford.edu |
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Galaxy Morphology: The Tuning Fork that Blossomed into a Lemon
Galaxies come in all shapes, colors, and sizes. Classifying them can be rather difficult, and we do not have one morphological classification system to do so. I will discuss some of the systems astronomers have created to make sense of the zoo of galaxies out there. I will also show where the Milky Way fits in and try to provide a little tour of it. If there's time, I'll then hand it off to the made-for-TV-actors from Carl Sagan's Cosmos to explain the things I left out.
Ng 2005-12-07 Compact Objects.ppt