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Astronomy II: Stars, Galaxies, and the Universe by James Kaler

Astronomy II: Stars, Galaxies, and the Universe

by James Kaler


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Over the past century, our vision has taken us far beyond the home Galaxy into the vastness of the Universe, where we find we are hardly alone. As far as we can see are countless other galaxies of all shapes and sizes set within an ever-expanding space that was created in a "Big Bang" nearly 14 billion years ago.

Along with solutions to old puzzles, however, come new riddles, as most of our Universe appears to be in the form of some kind of unseen "dark matter" and incomprehensible "dark energy" whose natures and origins remain unfathomable. Yet with all our questions - and knowing that there are questions still to be asked - we have learned the most important lesson: that all of this Universe is our home, that it took all of it to make us, that it is ours to behold and enjoy.While this course stands on its own, it is also an ideal complement to the first course of the set (Astronomy: Earth, Sky, and Planets), which covers celestial motions, constellations, telescopes, and planetary astronomy, all of it then integrated into a full picture of space and time.

Lecture I The Neighborhood

Lecture II The Central Sun

Lecture III The Making of Sunlight

Lecture IV Billions of Stars

Lecture V Ganging Up

Lecture VI Between the Stars

Lecture VII Star Birth

Lecture VIII Stellar Fate

Lecture IX Catastrophe

Lecture X Neutron Stars and Black Holes

Lecture XI The Galaxy

Lecture XII Galaxies

Lecture XIII The Expanding Universe

Lecture XIV Cosmic Origins in the Big Bang


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