Modern Telescopes Part 2 - What modern telescopes can tell us
Channel: Astronomy with Mr Guerin
Date: 2020-10-10

What can we learn from spectroscopy? What can we study using radio, infrared, ultraviolet, X-ray and gamma-ray telescopes?

This video will tell you everything you need to answer these questions in EdExcel's Astronomy GCSE.

Download the slideshow:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1v7n69srfzFmgYxF9Vct6FKp3r_ZRqFjx


Image credits:

Io hotspots, NASA/JPL/University of Arizona, nasa.gov, public domain
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA03535

Spectral lines continuous, Stkl, wikimedia, public domain
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Spectral-lines-continuous.svg

Spectral lines absorption, Stkl, wikimedia, public domain
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Spectral-lines-absorption.svg

Fraunhofer lines, Gebruiker:MaureenV and Phrood~commonswiki, wikimedia, public domain
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fraunhofer_lines.svg

Milky Way Spiral Arms, Dragons flight, wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Milky_Way_Spiral_Arms.png

ALMA image of the protoplanetary disc around HL Tauri, ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), eso.org, CC BY 4.0
https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1436a/

ULAS J1120+0641, ESO/M. Kornmesser, eso.org, CC BY 4.0
https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1122a/

Black hole accretion disk, ESA, NASA, and Felix Mirabel, hubblesite.org, public domain
https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2002/30/1273-Image.html

PIA18928: Embryonic Star's Outburst, NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Toledo; background: E. Safron et al., nasa.gov, public domain
https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/figures/PIA18928_fig1.jpg

Carina Nebula, NASA, ESA, N. Smith (University of California, Berkeley), and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), hubblesite.org, public domain
https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2007/news-2007-16.html

Gamma ray burst, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/ICRAR, wikimedia, public domain
https://en.es-static.us/upl/2019/11/gamma-ray-burst-mechanism-lg.jpg

Sun's corona, NASA, nasa.gov, public domain
https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1786.html