General Astronomy II

Catalog description

Students will learn about stars, our own Milky Way Galaxy, other galaxies and everything else in the Universe. This course will describe the nature of the Universe starting with stars and working up through star clusters, galaxies, clusters of galaxies and superclusters. Black holes, pulsars, supernovae, dark matter, the expanding Universe and other fascinating astronomical topics will also be explored. We will use math and physics as we explore the Universe. We will practice problem solving skills and discuss the methods and observations on which our understanding is based. The second course of a two-part sequence.