Course Detail
Units:
0.0
Course Components:
Lecture
Enrollment Information
Course Attribute:
University Connected Learning
Description
Modern astronomy--central theme will be modern science's attempt to understand the nature and orgin of the universe at large, Including the matter and radiation that makes it up. Specific topics includes stars and ecotic stellar objects (white Dwarfs, red giants, neutron stars and black holes), supernova explosions, the origin od atomic elements, galaxies, gaint radio sources, quasars, clusters of galaxies, the fabric of space and time, and Big Bang cosmology