Dr. Pierce's
Astronomy 101
(Introduction to Astronomy)
Approximate Schedule of Lecture Topics

Week -- Topics

#1 -- The celestial sphere and diurnal motion

#2 -- Earth's revolution and seasons

#3 -- Moon phases, tides and eclipses

#4 -- Light and telescopes

#5 -- Atoms and stellar spectra

#6 -- Stellar distances and magnitudes

#7 -- Binary stars and stellar masses

#8 -- Interstellar medium and star formation

#9 -- Stellar structure

#10 -- Stellar evolution

#11 -- The Milky Way

#12 -- Galaxies

#13 -- Active galaxies

#14 -- Cosmology

#15 -- Solar system overview


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Created August 20, 2002; last modified March 19, 2021
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