Stars, Galaxies, and the Universe

Lecture Notes

Fall 2007

#1: 27 August: Initial Pleasantries; The Sky Tonight

#2: 29 August: Getting Oriented, Astronomical Coordinate Systems

#3: 31 August: Astronomical Coordinate Systems (cont)

#4: 05 September: The Solar System in a Stellar Context

#5: 07 September: The Solar System in a Stellar Context (cont)

#6: 10 September: Distances to Stars, Light Years and Parsecs

#7: 12 September: Faint Stars and Bright Stars: the magnitude system

#8: 17 September: Telescopes

#9: 19 September: Starlight

#10: 26 September: Starlight (cont)

#11: 28 September: The Sun, the closest star

#12: 01 October: The Sun, closeup of a G main sequence star

#13: 03 October: Inside the Sun

#14: 05 October: The Powerhouse deep in the Sun

#15: 08 October: The fuel cycle of the Sun

#16: 10 October: Double Stars

#17: 22 October: The Formation of Stars

#18: 24 October: Dead Stars

#19: 26 October: Dead Stars 2

#20: 29 October: Dead Stars 3

#21: 31 October: Supernovae and Neutron Stars

#22: 02 November: Neutron Stars and Beyond

#23: 05 November: Black Holes

#24: 07 November: What is the Milky Way?

#25: 09 November: The Structure and Content of the Milky Way

#26: 16 November: Distances to Galaxies

#27: 26 November: Extragalactic Space and the Objects in it

#28: 28 November: Radio Galaxies and Quasars

#29: 30 November: Mapping the Universe with Quasars

#30: 03 December: Dark Matter and the Universe

#31: 05 December: Cosmology I

#32: 07 December: Cosmology II

#33: 10 December: Faded Brilliance: The Big Bang

#34: 12 December: Dark Energy

#35: 14 December: Omnis in Exitu Eius Pulchrima