Week 1. Geo-centrism, Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler’s Laws, the Kepler-Newton Law, & the Scientific Method
Week 2. Eclipse, Tides, Planet Densities, & the Solar System Formation
Week 3. Planets, Rings, the Moon, Escape Velocity, Atmospheres, & the Greenhouse Effect
Week 4. Newton’s 3 Laws & his Law of Gravitation, Gravity, Mass from Orbital Radius & Velocity, Dating Rocks, Comets, Asteroids, & Distances via Parallax
Week 5. Distances via Cepheid Variable stars, Discovering the Andromeda Galaxy, the Sun, & Fusion
Week 6. The Inverse Square Law, Fusion, Quantized Energy, Block Body Radiation, StellarTemperatures, & Stellar Luminosity
Week 7. Star lifetimes, Element Creation, Explosions, & Gamma Ray Bursts
Week 8. Pulsars, the Extra-Large Telescope, the Event Horizon Telescope, the Very Large Array, and Space Telescopes.
Week 9. The night sky, Galaxies, & Synchrotron Radiation
Week 10. Galaxy velocity of recession, galaxy distances, the Hubble-Lemaitre law, the Cosmologic Principle.
Week 11. Special and General Relativity, black holes, gravitational waves, Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
Week 12. The Cosmological Principle, the universe without edge or center, the Big Bang, redshift, early universe, expanding universe.
Week 13. Inflation, the 4 forces of nature, String Theory, and the Anthropic Principle, women astronomers
Week 14. Intelligent Civilizations in the Universe.
Week 15. Are there extra-terrestrial civilizations on Earth?
