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    A light year is a unit of distance used to measure large distances in space. It is defined as the distance light travels in one year, which is approximately 5,865,696,000,000 miles. The Big Bang Theory explains the origin of the universe as beginning with a hot, dense state roughly 13.8 billion years ago, which has been expanding ever since. Evidence for the theory includes the cosmic microwave background radiation and abundance of light elements formed in the early universe. The Solar Nebula Theory describes how our solar system formed from a cloud of gas and dust approximately 5 billion years ago, which eventually contracted and flattened into a disk with the sun forming at the center and planets coalescing from planetesimals in the

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    A light year is a unit of distance used to measure large distances in space. It is defined as the distance light travels in one year, which is approximately 5,865,696,000,000 miles. The Big Bang Theory explains the origin of the universe as beginning with a hot, dense state roughly 13.8 billion years ago, which has been expanding ever since. Evidence for the theory includes the cosmic microwave background radiation and abundance of light elements formed in the early universe. The Solar Nebula Theory describes how our solar system formed from a cloud of gas and dust approximately 5 billion years ago, which eventually contracted and flattened into a disk with the sun forming at the center and planets coalescing from planetesimals in the

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    A light year is a unit of distance used to measure large distances in space. It is defined as the distance light travels in one year, which is approximately 5,865,696,000,000 miles. The Big Bang Theory explains the origin of the universe as beginning with a hot, dense state roughly 13.8 billion years ago, which has been expanding ever since. Evidence for the theory includes the cosmic microwave background radiation and abundance of light elements formed in the early universe. The Solar Nebula Theory describes how our solar system formed from a cloud of gas and dust approximately 5 billion years ago, which eventually contracted and flattened into a disk with the sun forming at the center and planets coalescing from planetesimals in the

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    Formation of The Universe

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    A light year is a unit of distance used to measure large distances in space. It is defined as the distance light travels in one year, which is approximately 5,865,696,000,000 miles. The Big Bang Theory explains the origin of the universe as beginning with a hot, dense state roughly 13.8 billion years ago, which has been expanding ever since. Evidence for the theory includes the cosmic microwave background radiation and abundance of light elements formed in the early universe. The Solar Nebula Theory describes how our solar system formed from a cloud of gas and dust approximately 5 billion years ago, which eventually contracted and flattened into a disk with the sun forming at the center and planets coalescing from planetesimals in the

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    MELC: Describe the characteristics of

    Earth that are necessary to support


    life.

    OBJECTIVE: Explain the origin of the universe.


    But First! What is a Light Year??
    A light year is a way of measuring
    distance. That doesn't make much sense
    because "light year" contains the word
    "year," which is normally a unit of time.
    Even so, light years measure distance.
     Light
    travels at 186,000 miles per second
    (300,000 kilometers per second).
     Therefore, a light second is 186,000 miles
    (300,000 kilometers).
     A light year is the distance that light can
    travel in a year, or:
     186,000 miles/second * 60 seconds/minute
    * 60 minutes/hour * 24 hours/day * 365
    days/year = 5,865,696,000,000 miles/year
     OR…… 1 LIGHT YEAR
    • The universe
    began with a hot
    explosion called
    the Big Bang.
    The aftermath of
    the Big Bang
    consisted
    mostly of
    radiation, but as
    things cooled,
    the elements
    hydrogen and
    helium formed.
    • http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/e
    xplore_astronomy/skywatch/db/3
    07/audio/SkyWatch_307-
    11252010.mp3
    • Big Bang Theory - Evidence for the Theory
    • First of all, we are reasonably certain that the universe
    had a beginning.
    • Second, galaxies appear to be moving away from us at
    speeds proportional to their distance. This is called
    "Hubble's Law.” This observation supports the
    expansion of the universe and suggests that the
    universe was once compacted.
    • Third, if the universe was initially very, very hot as the
    Big Bang suggests, we should be able to find some
    remnant of this heat. In 1965, this was discovered a 2.725
    degree Kelvin (-454.765 degree Fahrenheit, -270.425 degree Celsius) Cosmic
    Microwave Background radiation (CMB) which pervades the observable universe.

    • Finally, the abundance of the "light elements"


    Hydrogen and Helium found in the observable
    universe are thought to support the Big Bang model of
    origins.
    A cloud in space
     Made of gas and dust
    • Can have stars inside
     Most of the ones we see are inside our
    Milky Way Galaxy
     Different types

    Orion image at
    Basis of modern theory
    of planet formation.

    Planets form at the


    same time from the
    same cloud as the star.

    Planet formation sites


    observed today as dust
    disks of T Tauri stars.

    Sun and our solar system


    formed ~ 5 billion years ago.
     a), (b) The solar nebula contracts and
    flattens into a spinning disk. The
    large blob in the center will become
    the Sun. Smaller blobs in the outer
    regions may become jovian planets.
     (c) Dust grains act as condensation
    nuclei, forming clumps of matter that
    collide, stick together, and grow into
    moon-sized planetesimals.
     (d) Strong winds from the still-
    forming Sun expel the nebular gas.
     (e) Planetesimals continue to collide
    and grow.
     (f) Over the course of a hundred
    million years or so, planetesimals
    form a few large planets that travel in
    roughly circular orbits.
     TheBig Bang Theory considers the
    creation of all the matter and energy that
    exists in the universe.. Anywhere..

     TheSolar Nebula theory uses that matter


    and energy, to create galaxies and solar
    systems.
    A large group of stars outside of our own Milky
    Way
     Made of billions to trillions of stars
    • Also may have gas and dust
     Spiral, or elliptical, or irregular shaped

    Image at
    NOAO/AURA/NSF Images at
    Images at
    http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/galaxy/elliptical/2007/08/image/
    NASA and NOAO/AURA/NSF Images at
    http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/galaxy/irregular/2005/09/res
     has about 200 billion stars, and lots of
    gas and dust
     is a barred-spiral (we think)
     about 100,000 light-years wide
     our Sun is halfway to the edge,
    revolving at half a million miles per
    hour around the center of the Galaxy
     takes our Solar System about 200
    million years to revolve once around
    our galaxy
    Image at
     Whatis the fate of the universe? Will the
    universe continue to expand or will it
    eventually contract because of gravity?

     Note: Donot forget to cite your reference


    materials.
    THANK YOU

    BRAVO BASTE

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