Space

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What's out there? For centuries, curious astronomers peered up into the night sky and saw stars, planets, and the occasional comet. Nowadays, astronomers have a suite of tools at their disposal to observe objects in space and help to answer the fundamental questions about the intricate workings of the Universe. From arrays of radio dishes spanning continents to gamma-ray detectors on satellites orbiting the Earth, astronomy is now truly Multi-Wavelength. This course is a journey of discovery, where students peer at objects such as quasars, stellar nurseries, galaxy clusters, supernovae, black holes, extrasolar planets, neutron stars, molecular clouds and gamma-ray bursts through various telescopes. Research and presentation will form a core part of the course, and experimental and quantitative methods will be brought to bear on our understanding of other worlds. How these results can be communicated to the scientific community and the public will be discussed, along with the relevance to society, including spin-off technologies. Data & Discovery Core courses develop the ability to use experimental and quantitative methods to understand the world - and in this course - other worlds!