Stellar Astronomy Lectures

Astronomy Lectures – Click on dates below to hear the lecture for that date!

Star Party Lectures

October 19, 2012 – The Nature of Science

November 16, 2012 – The Discoveries of Uranus and Neptune

February 15, 2013 – What Happened to Pluto?

March 22, 2013 – Dark Energy: The Return of the “Subtle Fluid”

Class Lectures (2013)

Unit 1

· August 29 – The Nature of Science

· September 3 – Ancient Astronomy

· September 5 – The Renaissance

· September 10 – Gravity and the Nature of Light

· September 12 – The Electromagnetic Spectrum

· September 17 – Luminosity and The Nature of Matter

· September 19 – Spectroscopy

Unit 2

· September 26 – The Sun

· October 1 – Sunspots and Nuclear Fusion

· October 3 – Parallax and Proper Motion

· October 8 – The Doppler Effect and the Magnitude System

· October 10 – Distance Modulus and Stellar Temperatures

· October 15 – The Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram

· October 17 – Stellar Masses

Unit 3

· October 24 – The Interstellar Medium and Star Formation

· 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

· November 27 – Edwin Hubble and the “Island Universes”

· November 29 – Galaxy Classification and Formation

· December 4 – Galaxy Interactions and Active Galaxies

· December 6 – Cosmology

· December 11 – The Beginning and the End

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Updated 10/05/2017

By James E. Heath

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