Free Lecture on What is a Star?

This is the first lecture from the Modern Scholar course Heavens Above: Stars, Constellations, and the Sky taught by Professor James Kaler.

Professor James Kaler shares his genuine awe and lifelong fascination with the stars in this opening lecture. He describes what a star is and provides a lot of info about our closet star, the Sun. Kaler covers the colors, brightness, and sizes of stars, the history of stars, and the number of visible stars in our night sky. The lecture will help you put things in perspective in relation to our vast universe. This free lecture is available to download exclusively through LearnOutLoud.com on MP3.

What is a Star?

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It's just about back to school time and whether you're a student or not, it's a great time to learn more about a subject you're interested in with Modern Scholar.

And here are the four new courses to download. We're offering the first lecture of these courses for free as the audio sample:

The Philosophy of Mind - Professor Andrew Pessin examines the philosophy of mind, thought, consciousness, meaning, and much more.

The Life and Times of Mark Twain - Professor and Twain biographer Michael Shelden leads us on a chronological portrait of one of America's great authors.

In Michelangelo's Shadow - A course examining all things Italian from the Renaissance to the Modern era with the director of Italian studies at Bard College, Professor Joseph Luzzi.

Evolutionary Psychology I: The Science of Human Nature - Course examines the new field of evolutionary psychology which looks at human behaviors of love, sexuality, family, health, and more from the standpoint of evolution and its relation to the brain

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