Understanding.the.Universe.-.An.Introduction.to.Astronomy,.2

TTC - Understanding.the.Universe.-.An.Introduction.to.Astronomy,.2nd.Edition

Who has not gazed with wonder at the night sky? The great canopy of stars stretching overhead suggests that our world is part of a vastly larger cosmos. But how large is it? Where do we fit in? And how did it all begin?

These questions have puzzled stargazers for thousands of years, and the search for answers helped spark the great advances of the Scientific Revolution in the 16th and 17th centuries. But only in our own time has the full picture of the true immensity, variety, and surpassing strangeness of the Universe come into focus.

Explore Everything There Is in 96 Lectures

Understanding the Universe: An Introduction to Astronomy, 2nd Edition is a nontechnical description of where that picture stands today. In 96 richly illustrated half-hour lectures, you survey the main concepts, methods, and discoveries in astronomy—in depth—from the constellations drawn by the ancients, to the latest reports from planetary probes in our Solar System, to the most recent images offered by telescopes probing the farthest frontiers of space and time.

These lectures fully update Professor Alex Filippenko's 1998 edition of this course and his companion course from 2003. All of the material in this course is integrated so that one topic builds on another as you develop the conceptual tools that allow you to explore the Universe. For example, the study of the Solar System leads naturally to the investigation of planets around other stars and the possibility of life elsewhere in the cosmos. Likewise, rainbows and similar atmospheric phenomena introduce the subject of light, and light is the key to unraveling the mysteries of stars and galaxies.



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0.Professor Bio
1.A Grand Tour of the Cosmos (info)
2.The Rainbow Connection (info)
3.Sunrise, Sunset (info)
4.Bright Objects in the Night Sky (info)
5.Fainter Phenomena in the Night Sky (info)
6.Our Sky through Binoculars and Telescopes (info)
7.The Celestial Sphere (info)
8.The Reason for the Seasons (info)
9.Lunar Phases and Eerie Lunar Eclipses (info)
10.Glorious Total Solar Eclipses (info)
11.More Eclipse Tales (info)
12.Early Studies of the Solar System (info)
13.The Geocentric Universe (info)
14.Galileo and the Copernican Revolution (info)
15.Refinements to the Heliocentric Model (info)
16.On the Shoulders of Giants (info)
17.Surveying Space and Time (info)
18.Scale Models of the Universe (info)
19.Light—The Supreme Informant (info)
20.The Wave-Particle Duality of Light (info)
21.The Colors of Stars (info)
22.The Fingerprints of Atoms (info)
23.Modern Telescopes (info)
24.A Better Set of Eyes (info)
25.Our Sun, the Nearest Star (info)
26.The Earth, Third Rock from the Sun (info)
27.Our Moon, Earth's Nearest Neighbor (info)
28.Mercury and Venus (info)
29.Of Mars and Martians (info)
30.Jupiter and Its Amazing Moons (info)
31.Magnificent Saturn (info)
32.Uranus and Neptune, the Small Giants (info)
33.Pluto and Its Cousins (info)
34.Asteroids and Dwarf Planets (info)
35.Comets—Gorgeous Primordial Snowballs (info)
36.Catastrophic Collisions (info)
37.The Formation of Planetary Systems (info)
38.The Quest for Other Planetary Systems (info)
39.Extra-Solar Planets Galore! (info)
40.Life Beyond the Earth (info)
41.The Search for Extraterrestrials (info)
42.Special Relativity and Interstellar Travel (info)
43.Stars—Distant Suns (info)
44.The Intrinsic Brightnesses of Stars (info)
45.The Diverse Sizes of Stars (info)
46.Binary Stars and Stellar Masses (info)
47.Star Clusters, Ages, and Remote Distances (info)
48.How Stars Shine—Nature's Nuclear Reactors (info)
49.Solar Neutrinos—Probes of the Sun's Core (info)
50.Brown Dwarfs and Free-Floating Planets (info)
51.Our Sun's Brilliant Future (info)
52.White Dwarfs and Nova Eruptions (info)
53..Exploding Stars—Celestial Fireworks! (info)
54.White Dwarf Supernovae—Stealing to Explode (info)
55.Core-Collapse Supernovae—Gravity Wins (info)
56.The Brightest Supernova in Nearly 400 Years (info)
57.The Corpses of Massive Stars (info)
58.Einstein's General Theory of Relativity (info)
59.Warping of Space and Time (info)
60.Black Holes—Abandon Hope, Ye Who Enter (info)
61.The Quest for Black Holes (info)
62.Imagining the Journey to a Black Hole (info)
63.Wormholes—Gateways to Other Universes? (info)
64.Quantum Physics and Black-Hole Evaporation (info)
65.Enigmatic Gamma-Ray Bursts (info)
66.Birth Cries of Black Holes (info)
67.Our Home—The Milky Way Galaxy (info)
68.Structure of the Milky Way Galaxy (info)
69.Other Galaxies—"Island Universes" (info)
70.The Dark Side of Matter (info)
71.Cosmology—The Really Big Picture (info)
72.Expansion of the Universe and the Big Bang (info)
73.Searching for Distant Galaxies (info)
74.The Evolution of Galaxies (info)
75.Active Galaxies and Quasars (info)
76.Cosmic Powerhouses of the Distant Past (info)
77.Supermassive Black Holes (info)
78.Feeding the Monster (info)
79.The Paradox of the Dark Night Sky (info)
80.The Age of the Universe (info)
81.When Geometry Is Destiny (info)
82.The Mass Density of the Universe (info)
83.Einstein's Biggest Blunder? (info)
84.The Afterglow of the Big Bang (info)
85.Ripples in the Cosmic Background Radiation (info)
86.The Stuff of the Cosmos (info)
87.Dark Energy—Quantum Fluctuations? (info)
88.Dark Energy—Quintessence? (info)
89.Grand Unification & Theories of Everything (info)
90.Searching for Hidden Dimensions (info)
91.The Shape, Size, and Fate of the Universe (info)
92.In the Beginning (info)
93.The Inflationary Universe (info)
94.The Ultimate Free Lunch? (info)
95.A Universe of Universes (info)
96.Reflections on Life and the Cosmos (info)