Objects in the Sky Part 1 - Astronomical objects
Channel: Astronomy with Mr Guerin
Date: 2020-02-20

What kind of objects can we see in the sky? Where do they come from, and how can we tell them apart?

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

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Image credits:

Andromeda galaxy, Adam Evans, wikimedia, CC BY 2.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Andromeda_Galaxy_(with_h-alpha).jpg

Sun in the sky, Carla Nunziata, wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sun_in_the_sky.jpg

Crescent Moon, Jessie Eastland, wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crescent_Moon_close_to_Setting.jpg

Night sky Berlin (modified for twinkling and supernovae), Kertase, wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Night_stars_berlin.png

Pleiades, NASA, ESA, AURA/Caltech, Palomar Observatory, public domain
https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2004/news-2004-20.html

Saturn, Rochus Hess, all uses permitted
http://members.aon.at/astrofotografie

Comet Hale-Bopp, Philipp Salzgeber, wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0 AT
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Comet-Hale-Bopp-29-03-1997_hires_adj.jpg

Meteor video, Bautsch, wikimedia, CC0 1.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:P10220XX.01.49.MESZ.14.08.2019.Berlin.Perseiden.x1.0.gif

Aurorae Borealis and Australis, 14jbella, wikimedia, CC BY-SA 1.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paranormal_Activity_(99225209).jpeg

International Space Station, NASA, public domain
https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-117/html/s117e08003.html

Night sky with plane lights, Sardaka, wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:(1)Sydney_Night_Sky_025.jpg

Sunset Acapulco, Arturo Mann, wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Acapulco_sunset_summer.jpg

Full Moon, Jessie Eastland, wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Christmas_Evening_Full_Moon-2015.jpg

Caribbean daytime Moon, Šarūnas Burdulis, wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Caribbean_skies._Daytime_moon_(6980006572).jpg

Antares, ESO/K. Ohnaka, ESA, CC BY 4.0
https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1726a/

M80, NASA, public domain
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/messier-80

Orion nebula, BryanGoff, wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Backyard_photo_of_the_Orion_Nebula.jpg

Radiant of Perseids, Popular Science Monthly, Volume 18, wikimedia, public domain
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PSM_V18_D201_Shower_of_perseids_sept_6_and_7.jpg

4-hour time lapse, Juraj Tóth, wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AGOModra_Leonids98.jpg

Chelyabinsk video, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, public domain
http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11336

ISS transit of the Sun, NASA/Bill Ingalls, public domain
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/90796/so-many-ways-to-view-an-eclipse

Iridium flare in Cassiopeia, Jud McCranie, wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iridium_flare_in_Cassiopeia.webm