|Spring 2010||Astronomy 110||MWF 9:30 &mdash 10:20| The Milky
Way Galaxy is a vast pinwheel of stars and gas turning within an
enormous cloud of invisible matter. Many generations of stars
have formed and died within its disk, enriching our galaxy's
stock of heavy elements. Before the disk formed, the future
Milky Way probably existed as several distinct galaxies which
fell together and merged. Please read all of Chapter 14, along
with the specific subsections of other chapters listed below. •
How is our solar system moving in the Milky Way Galaxy?
|2.1||Patterns in the Night Sky The Milky Way |14.1||The Milky
Way Revealed| |14.3||The History of the Milky Way| |14.4||The
Mysterious Galactic Center| |16.2||Evidence for Dark Matter
Distribution of Mass in the Milky Way Joshua E. Barnes (barnes
at ifa.hawaii.edu) 17 April 2010