How the Sun Shines: Solar Neutrinos

• Radiochemical experiments
  • The pioneer: Ray Davis and the Homestake Mine experiment
• Scattering experiments
  • Super-Kamiokande (Japan); Super-K neutrino image of the Sun
    
  • Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (Canada); detector image
  • Borexino in Gran Sasso, Italy
• The 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics
• Coda: Cosmic Gall, by John Updike

Changing Gears: The Big Picture

Stars

Stars: Physical Properties

• Apparent brightness
  data on the 125 (apparently) brightest stars
• Colors
  
  • Orion
  • Southern Ccross optical image, objective prism
  • filters: commonly used wavelength bands; a filter wheel
    
  • multiwavelength comparison: Plieades star cluster
• Luminosity
• Distance: parallax
  RECONS project data on the 100 nearest stars
  nearest stars mapped
  searchable database of nearby stars
  
• Mass: from binary systems

  visual binaries: Mizar orbit

  spectroscopic binaries