Classifying

Annie Jump Cannon

Annie Jump Cannon
Credit: Smithsonian Institution (US)

Occupation: Astronomer and Curator

Year born: 1863

Research Areas: Stars, Stellar Classification, Spectroscopy

 

"In our troubled days it is good to have something outside our planet, something fine and distant for comfort"

Dosbarthu Galaethau

Wedi’i anelu at ddisgyblion 14-18 oed, mae’r gweithgaredd hwn yn cyflwyno’r disgyblion i’r Cynllun Dosbarthu Hubble ar gyfer galaethau ac mae’n rhoi her i’r disgyblion i drio dosbarthu amrywiaeth o alaethau go iawn. Gall fod yn ddefnyddiol hefyd fel ffordd o drafod y gwahanol fathau o alaethau yn y Bydysawd.

Identify the Nebula

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The word nebula is used to talk about any dusty, fuzzy objects in space but they can be very different things! Can you classify each image into its proper category?





Order the Stages of a Star

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During their lives, stars undergo massive changes. What happens to them depends on how much mass they contain.

Can you put the stages that a low mass star and a high mass star will go through in the correct order on the diagram?





Galaxies Quiz

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What do you know about classifying galaxies? Challenge yourself with this quiz.





Galaxy Classification

By looking at galaxies closely you can start to see similar features. Sorting schemes have been created to separate galaxies into groups based on how they look. The most famous of these was made by Edwin Hubble in 1936. It is often known as the Hubble tuning-fork because of the shape of it.


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