Quick Facts about ASTRO 801
- Author - Dr. Chris Palma, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Students in the Eberly College of Science at Penn State.
- There are 12 lessons.
- Lesson 1 - Motions in the Sky and the 3D Geometry of the Sun, Earth, Moon System
- Lesson 2 - Orbits and the Laws of Kepler and Newton
- Lesson 3 - Electromagnetic radiation and Astronomical Observations
- Lesson 4 - The Properties of Stars and Stellar Classification
- Lesson 5 - The Early Stages of Stellar Evolution
- Lesson 6 - The Late Stages of Stellar Evolution
- Lesson 7 - Star Clusters
- Lesson 8 - The Milky Way Galaxy
- Lesson 9 - Galaxies in the Universe
- Lesson 10 - Cosmology
- Lesson 11 - The Solar System
- Lesson 12 - Life in the Universe
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