ASTR 1000: Descriptive Astronomy

Lecture slides

DateTopic
01/21/2026How the course runs
01/23/2026What’s in the Universe
01/26/2026Moving through space
01/28/2026Cycles in the sky
01/30/2026Coordinates, eclipses, and transits
02/02/2026History of astronomy
02/04/2026Force and motion
02/06/2026Conservation laws and gravity
02/09/2026Electromagnetic waves
02/11/2026Learning from light
02/18/2026Optics
02/25/2026Our Solar System
02/27/2026The Earth
02/27/2026The Moon
03/02/2026Mercury
03/04/2026Venus
03/06/2026Mars
03/09/2026Giant planets
03/13/2026Giant moons
03/23/2026Solid fragments
03/25/2026Exoplanets
03/27/2026Surface of the Sun
03/30/2026Inside the Sun
04/01/2026Magnitude
04/01/2026Types of stars
04/03/2026Stars that fade
04/06/2026Stars that collapse
04/08/2026Cinders of stars
04/10/2026Black holes
04/13/2026Our home Galaxy
04/15/2026Structure of galaxies
04/20/2026Galaxy formation (previous slide show, still)
04/24/2026Active galaxies
04/27/2026The big bang
04/29/2026Fate of the Universe
05/01/2026Life Out There
05/06/2026Bonus! Special relativity

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