ASTRONOMY 1020

STELLAR AND GALACTIC ASTRONOMY

Required Text:   Chaisson and McMillan, Astronomy Today, 3rd Edition, Prentice Hall

GENERAL INFORMATION: Chaisson and McMillan is an excellent text, but will not include all the material in my lectures (and of course, I will not cover everything in the text). Many of you might benefit from looking at texts with different viewpoints; other excellent books are: Astronomy Today, W.J. Kaufmann, Universe and T.P. Snow, The Dynamic Universe.

Contents:

3 Introduction & Review of Light
4 Spectroscopy: Atoms and Light
16 The Sun: The Nearest Star
17 Observed Properties of Stars
18 The Interstellar Medium
19 Star Formation
20 Red Giants & White Dwarfs
21,22.1 Stellar Explosions & Neutron Stars
22.2-22.7 Pulsars & Black Holes
23 Our Home Galaxy: The Milky Way
24 Regular Galaxies
25 Active Galaxies & Quasars
26 Cosmology: The Big Bang
27 Cosmology: The History & Fate of the Universe
28 Is There Life Elsewhere?

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