Intro to Astronomy Class Syllabus
Lesson 1 – History and Observation History of Astronomy Observational Astronomy Lesson 2 – The Solar System Formation and Evolution of the Solar System Composition of Bodies in the Solar System...
View ArticleAstronomy tidbits
A sense of scale: If the sun were the size of a volleyball and the Earth the size of a pea, they would be approximately 71 feet apart. If our solar system were the size of a CD, then the Milky Way...
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Have you ever wondered: How the universe started and how it might end? How our galaxy and solar system formed? If there is other life in the universe? This is the course for you!! Registration for...
View ArticleAstronomy – Unaided eye observation
It is often thought that amateur astronomy requires the purchase of a telescope of some kind. Certainly it is true that owning a good quality telescope does make it possible to observe many more...
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Astronomy – Our Solar System
- A day on Venus lasts 243 Earth days. - Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is large enough to engulf Earth twice over and has been raging for 350 years. - Saturn has sixty known moons. - Neptune has 2,100 mph...
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Astronomy – Stars
Do you want to learn more about stars? There are many different classifications of stars and our Sun is just one of many and not even the most common type in the galaxy. Find out more by signing up for...
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Astronomy – Milky Way Galaxy
This is a panoramic view of our Milky Way Galaxy. As a guide to the relative physical scale of the Milky Way, if it were reduced to 100 meters in diameter, the Solar System would be no more than 2...
View ArticleAstronomy – Sky gazing
A great link for finding night sky objects – http://www.astronomy.com/asy/stardome/default.aspx Check out my Introduction to Astronomy course.
View ArticleA fun survey from Astronomy magazine
http://apps.kalmbach.com/survey/default.aspx?sid=1097&auth=08SKSjoFop Learn more about astronomy in my Introduction to Astronomy course.
View ArticleHow do they find black holes and how many are in the Milky Way?
To date, astronomers have found 19 confirmed black holes and an additional 18 potential black holes, for a total of 37. All but one of the 37 lie in binary (double star) systems, each in the range from...
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