Galaxies, stars and planets
Offered By: The Open University via OpenLearn
Course Description
Overview
This free course, Galaxies, stars and planets, is a general introduction, including scale of the universe from the very large to the very small; orbits and gravity; the Solar System; the Sun and other stars; galaxies and the composition of astronomical objects.
Syllabus
- Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- 1 The Universe today
- 1 The Universe today
- 2 Scale of the Universe
- 2 Scale of the Universe
- 3 Orbits and gravity
- 3 Orbits and gravity
- 4 Our neighbourhood
- 4 Our neighbourhood
- 5 The Sun and stars
- 5 The Sun and stars
- 6 Galaxies
- 6 Galaxies
- 7 'We are stardust'
- 7 'We are stardust'
- End-of-course questions
- Answers to questions
- Comments on activity
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
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