EARTH 1120 (EARTH-1120)

Detailed notes including the topics of the Milky Way galaxy, the recycling cycle of the Galaxy, types of Galaxies, formation of Galaxies, including helpful pictures.

Detailed notes including the stellar graveyard, the death of stars, stellar masses, novas, white dwarf, supernova, neutron star, pulsars, black holes, and extreme events in the universe.

Detailed notes including asteroids, comets, dwarf planets and the Kuiper Belt Objects (KBO), the Doppler Effect, the Sun's composition and chemistry, magnetic field of the Sun, includes link to helpful videos on nuclear fusion, solar activity. These notes also cover properties of stars like brightness and luminosity, parallax, measuring stellar masses, and the H-R diagram.

Detailed notes including helpful pictures. These notes cover the topics of Earth and the Terrestrial Worlds in the solar system including the composition, atmosphere, surface protection, describing what happened to Mars. These notes cover the Jovian planets, the formation, composition, atmosphere of those planets. Satellites and detailed explanation of Jovian moons are explored as well.

Detailed class notes including pictures and link to helpful videos. These notes cover topics of defining what is light including historical perspective, light and matter, the electromagnetic spectrum of stars, spectra. These notes also cover telescopes in astronomy, the formation of the solar system, and the planets in the solar system,

Detailed notes on the Introduction to Astronomy, including pictures. These notes covers the topics of modern and ancient studies of astronomy, describing motion and gravity, Kepler's Laws and Newton's Laws, and the gravitational effects of the moon.

Introduction to Astronomy. Detailed notes including pictures from the lecture. These notes covers the topics of the solar system location in the galaxy, basic definitions, patterns in the night sky, star constellations, the reason for seasons, moon phases and eclipses.