Week 1 (6/11/24) Intro, Geo-centrism, Kepler's laws, the Kepler-Newton law, the scientific method
Week 2 (6/18/24) Eclipses, tides, solar system formation, planet tilts & density
Week 3 (6/25/24) Rocky & giant planets, moon, escape velocity, planet atmospheres, the greenhouse effect
Week 4 (7/2/24) Determining Earth's age, comets, asteroids, distances using parallax
Week 5 (7/9/24) Distances using cepheid variable stars; M31 is a galaxy!, sun, fusion, the Hertzsprung-Russel diagram
Week 6 (7/16/24) Identifying atoms in stars; star characteristics, luminosity, element creation & supernovae
Week 7 (7/23/24) Neutron stars, black holes, pulsars, professional telescopes, building the Extra Large Telescope (39 meters)
Week 8 (7/30/24) Radio & space telescopes; Observing the sky: stars, moving groups, Mars, the moons of Saturn & Jupiter
Week 9 (8/6/24) Galaxy classification, active galactic nuclei, blackbody & synchrotron radiation, the cosmologic redshift
Week 10 (8/13/24) The Hubble-Lemaitre law, dark matter, the cosmologic principle
Week 11 (8/20/24) General Relativity & its proofs, gravitational waves, the cosmic microwave background radiation
Week 12 (8/27/24) Does the universe have an edge? Big Bang, Red shift & time, stretching waves, age 400,000 years
Week 13 (9/3/24) Fate & density of the U; proportions of normal, dark, and energetic matter; inflation; the 4 forces of nature.
Week 14 (9/10/24) Habitable exoplanets, astrobiology, the lifetime of K type stars. Are ETs out there?
Week 15 (9/17/24) UFOs: are they extra-terrestrial? Are ET life forms present on Earth? Is there a cover up?
Week 16 (9/24/24) UFOs and conspiracy theories.
