Created by Moa Lindström
over 10 years ago
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Time for Earth to do one full revolution
Precession
Time for Moon to orbit Earth
Official defiition of a planet, International Astronomical Union (IAU)
Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
Asteroids
Comets
Stars
Constellations
Stellar cluster
Astronomical Unit (AU)
Light year (ly)
Parsec (pc)
Galaxy
Stable star
Luminosity (L)
Apparent brightness (b)
Stefan-Boltzmann law
If a star has surface area A, temperature T, then the total power emitted (L) is given by...
O
B
A
F
G
K
M
Red (doppler) shift
Blue (doppler) shift
90% of stars on H-R diagram
Giants
Supergiants
White dwarfs
Variable stars
Binary stars
Visual binaries
Eclipsing binaries
Spectroscopic binary
Stellar parallax
Spectroscopic parallax
Second
Standard candle
(Cepheid variables)
Cepheid variable
Apparent magnitude (m)
Absolute magnitude