AST 301 — Course Outline

Prof. Paul R. Shapiro

UNITTOPIC
0Overview: The Scale of the Cosmos and Mathematical Preliminaries
1The Changing Sky
2Surveying the Stars
3Light and Telescopes
4Radiation and Matter
5Weighing and Measuring the Stars
6Stellar Structure
7Stellar Evolution: The Birth, Life, and Death of Stars
8Our Milky Galaxy
9Galaxies
10Cosmology
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