Understanding the Cosmos

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The universe as a whole, as viewed by prehistoric civilizations to the present, including Greek/pre-Greek cosmology, the Copernican revolution, the development of modern cosmology, gravity, galaxies, dark matter, large-scale structure, universal expansion, the background radiation, the big bang and other models, the earliest times, dark energy, and the fate of the universe. Prerequisite(s): ASTR 2010 .