Stellar Astronomy Lectures |
Astronomy Lectures
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Star Party Lectures October 19,
2012 – The Nature of Science
November 16,
2012 – The Discoveries of Uranus and Neptune
Class Lectures (2013) Unit 1 ·
August
29 The Nature of Science
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September
3 Ancient Astronomy
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September
5 The Renaissance
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September
10 Gravity and the Nature of Light
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September
12 The Electromagnetic Spectrum
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September
17 Luminosity and The Nature of Matter
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September
19 Spectroscopy
Unit 2 ·
September 26 The Sun
· October 1 Sunspots and Nuclear Fusion·
October
3 Parallax and Proper Motion
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October
8 The Doppler Effect and the Magnitude System
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October
10 Distance Modulus and Stellar Temperatures
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October
15 The Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram
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October
17 Stellar Masses
Unit 3 ·
October
24 The Interstellar Medium and Star Formation
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October 29 The Life
Story of a Solar Mass Star ·
October 31 The Lives of
More Massive Stars Below are old lectures ·
November
6 Stellar Explosions ·
November
8 Supernovae and Neutron Stars ·
November
13 Pulsars and Black Holes ·
November 15 Star Clusters Unit 4 ·
November
20 The Milky Way
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November
27 Edwin Hubble and the Island Universes
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November
29 Galaxy Classification and Formation
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December
4 Galaxy Interactions and Active Galaxies
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December
6 Cosmology
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December
11 The Beginning and the End
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10/05/2017
By
James E. Heath
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