Take a trip into Outer Space! Explore our stars, constellations, planets, galaxy, and universe!

1. Sarah Cunningham
Internet in Education
EME 6936

3. Protostar – What exists before a star is born
Types of Stars
T Tauri Star – Stage in a star’s formation
Main Sequence Star – The majority of the stars in our galaxy
Red Giant
Red Giant Star – Forms after a star consumes its stock of hydrogen in its core
White Dwarf Star – When a star completely runs out of hydrogen fule
Red Dwarf Star – Most common kind of star, has a cool temperature
Neutron Star – Exotic star made completely up of neutrons
Supergiant Star – Largest stars in the Universe

4. Home
Did you know?
The Sun

5. A constellation is a group of stars that
appear to form a pattern in the sky.
Three famous Ursa Minor
Constellations
are: Ursa Major
Orion

6. Also known as the Little
Dipper, Ursa Minor
contains a very famous
star called Polaris*.
*The North Star

7. The Ursa Major is
commonly called
the Big Dipper.
Its shape
resembles a bear.

8. Orion is known as
The Hunter. It is
the most
recognizable
constellation in the
sky.

9. Formed about 4.6
billion years ago, our
solar system consists of
the sun and all celestial
objects that are bound
to it by gravity.

10. What can we find in
our solar system?
Planets
Asteroid belt
Dwarf Planets (moons)
Dust and other particles

11. Listed in order from the Sun:
Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
Pluto

12. A Galaxy is massive! It is
bound together by gravity.
What is in a galaxy?
Stars
Stellar Remnants
Interstellar medium of gas and dust

13. Our solar system is in the Milky Way
Galaxy. Its diameter is about 100,000
light years.

14. The Universe is everything
that exists in intergalactic
space.
Hubble Ultra Deep Field