Frequently Asked Questions for Astronomy 2201

These questions relate to the study of galaxies.

What are the types of galaxies and what does that mean?
What are the characteristics of the different types of galaxies?
What is the Milky Way?
How do the stars in the disk of a galaxy move?
How do the stars in the bulge or halo of a galaxy move?
How do galaxies form and evolve?
What is galactic rotation?
What are rotation curves?
How do we determine the inclination of a galaxy?
See an example of obtaining a rotation curve with the Palomar 5m telescope and its double spectrograph.

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