Lecture Series: Our Universe - From the Big Bang to the Origin of the Earth

With our lecture series "Our Universe - From the Big Bang to the Origin of the Earth" we invite listeners from all faculties and interested visitors to a journey through the history of the universe, from the Big Bang to the formation of galaxies, stars and planets to the origin of the Earth and life. Each week our lecturers will present you with a different topic. No specific prior knowledge of physics is required for the lecture, but we do assume a strong interest in scientific topics.

Students (optional area) can find here the lecture and the corresponding exercise in the course catalog.

Recent observations revealing the many-armed, beautiful spiral galaxy NGC 2336 as only Hubble can. The imagery used to create this image was taken in January 2020. Meanwhile, the Chandra X-ray Observatory is also tasked with looking at this galaxy, though I haven't looked into the details of that, yet.</p><p>Edit: Checked on CXO observations, and so far none yet, but I did notice that of the proposed 200 kilosecond time, they only gave Dr. Antoniou 50 ks. Ouch! Here's hoping that's enough.</p><p>Data from the following proposal was used to create this image:</p><p>Determining How X-ray Binary Populations Vary Through Time</p><p>Note there are a number of blank areas in the image where data were absent. I filled those with background-matched noise to make them visually unobtrusive. Some other areas also lack a full range of color, being only covered by 1-2 filters.</p><p>The pixel scale is 0.05 arcseconds per pixel.</p><p>Red: ACS/WFC F814W</p><p>Green: ACS/WFC F555W</p><p>Blue: ACS/WFC F435W</p><p>North is exactly to the right.

Photo: Judy Schmidt

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