Talk date: Monday, January 27, 1997
Suggested topics (Week 3):
Ancient astronomy.
Ptolemaic model of the universe.
Copernicus.
Galileo.
Kepler's laws of planetary motion.
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Talk date: Wednesday, January 29, 1997
Suggested topics (Week 3):
Ancient astronomy.
Ptolemaic model of the universe.
Copernicus.
Galileo.
Kepler's laws of planetary motion.
Newton.
Einstein.
Relativity.
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Talk date: Friday, January 31, 1997
Suggested topics (Week 3):
Copernicus.
Galileo.
Kepler's laws of planetary motion.
Einstein.
Relativity.
The electromagnetic spectrum.
History of the telescope.
Major world observatories.
Types of telescopes.
Types of imaging detectors.
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Talk date: Monday, February 3, 1997
Suggested topics (Week 4):
The electromagnetic spectrum.
History of the telescope.
Major world observatories.
Types of telescopes.
Types of imaging detectors.
Various radio telescopes.
Observations by radio telescopes.
Hubble Space Telescope.
Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory.
Other space telescopes.
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Talk date: Wednesday, February 5, 1997
Suggested topics (Week 4):
History of the telescope.
Types of telescopes.
Various radio telescopes.
Observations by radio telescopes.
Hubble Space Telescope.
Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory.
Other space telescopes.
History of the temperature scales.
The structure and size of atoms.
The Periodic Table of the Elements.
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Talk date: Friday, February 7, 1997
Suggested topics (Week 4):
Observations by radio telescopes.
Hubble Space Telescope.
Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory.
Other space telescopes.
History of the temperature scales.
The structure and size of atoms.
The Periodic Table of the Elements.
Formation of atomic spectral lines.
Stellar spectral classes.
The Doppler effect.
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Talk date: Wednesday, February 12, 1997
Suggested topics (Week 5):
History of the temperature scales.
The structure and size of atoms.
The Periodic Table of the Elements.
Formation of atomic spectral lines.
Stellar spectral classes.
The Doppler effect.
Observations of the Sun.
Helioseismology.
The outer layers of the Sun.
The solar wind.
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Talk date: Friday, February 14, 1997
Suggested topics (Week 5):
Formation of atomic spectral lines.
Stellar spectral classes.
The Doppler effect.
Observations of the Sun.
Helioseismology.
The outer layers of the Sun.
The solar wind.
Sun spots.
Prominences and flares.
Aurora.
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Talk date: Friday, February 14, 1997
Suggested topics (Week 5):
Formation of atomic spectral lines.
Stellar spectral classes.
The Doppler effect.
Observations of the Sun.
Helioseismology.
The outer layers of the Sun.
The solar wind.
Sun spots.
Prominences and flares.
Aurora.
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Talk date: Monday, February 17, 1997
Suggested topics (Week 6):
Observations of the Sun.
Helioseismology.
The outer layers of the Sun.
The solar wind.
Sun spots.
Prominences and flares.
Aurora.
The geometry of stellar parallax.
Observing stellar parallax: historical.
Observing stellar parallax: modern.
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Talk date: Wednesday, February 19, 1997
Suggested topics (Week 6):
Sun spots.
Prominences and flares.
Aurora.
The geometry of stellar parallax.
Observing stellar parallax: historical.
Observing stellar parallax: modern.
Luminosity, radius and temperature.
History of the H-R Diagram.
Summary of different types of stars.
Counting stars and stellar types.
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Talk date: Friday, February 21, 1997
Suggested topics (Week 6):
Observing stellar parallax: historical.
Observing stellar parallax: modern.
Luminosity, radius and temperature.
History of the H-R Diagram.
Summary of different types of stars.
Counting stars and stellar types.
Determining the masses of visual binaries.
History of binary star observations.
Spectroscopic binaries.
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Talk date: Friday, February 21, 1997
Suggested topics (Week 6):
Observing stellar parallax: historical.
Observing stellar parallax: modern.
Luminosity, radius and temperature.
History of the H-R Diagram.
Summary of different types of stars.
Counting stars and stellar types.
Determining the masses of visual binaries.
History of binary star observations.
Spectroscopic binaries.
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Talk date: Monday, February 24, 1997
Suggested topics (Week 7):
Luminosity, radius and temperature.
History of the H-R Diagram.
Summary of different types of stars.
Counting stars and stellar types.
Determining the masses of visual binaries.
History of binary star observations.
Spectroscopic binaries.
Geometry and observations of eclipsing binaries.
Examples of eclipsing binary stars.
Determining mass and luminosity of stars.
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Talk date: Wednesday, February 26, 1997
Suggested topics (Week 7):
History of binary star observations.
Spectroscopic binaries.
Geometry and observations of eclipsing binaries.
Examples of eclipsing binary stars.
Geometry and observations of eclipsing binaries.
Examples of eclipsing binary stars.
Determining mass and luminosity of stars.
Emission nebulae.
Reflection nebulae.
Dark nebulae.
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Talk date: Friday, February 28, 1997
Suggested topics (Week 7):
Geometry and observations of eclipsing binaries.
Examples of eclipsing binary stars.
Determining mass and luminosity of stars.
Emission nebulae.
Reflection nebulae.
Dark nebulae.
Radio observations of the interstellar medium.
Molecular clouds.
UV and x-ray observations of interstellar medium. The interstellar cycle.
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Talk date: Friday, February 28, 1997
Suggested topics (Week 7):
Geometry and observations of eclipsing binaries.
Examples of eclipsing binary stars.
Determining mass and luminosity of stars.
Emission nebulae.
Reflection nebulae.
Dark nebulae.
Radio observations of the interstellar medium.
Molecular clouds.
UV and x-ray observations of interstellar medium. The interstellar cycle.
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Talk date: Monday, March 3, 1997
Suggested topics (Week 8):
Emission nebulae.
Reflection nebulae.
Dark nebulae.
Radio observations of the interstellar medium.
Molecular clouds.
UV and x-ray observations of interstellar medium. The interstellar cycle.
Star birth in giant molecular clouds.
Protostars, T Tauri stars, Herbig-Haro objects.
Observations of stellar birth.
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Talk date: Wednesday, March 5, 1997
Suggested topics (Week 8):
Radio observations of the interstellar medium.
Molecular clouds.
UV and x-ray observations of interstellar medium. The interstellar cycle.
Star birth in giant molecular clouds.
Protostars, T Tauri stars, Herbig-Haro objects.
Observations of stellar birth.
Nuclear fusion in the Sun.
The solar neutrino problem.
Hydrogen fusion reactors on earth.
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Talk date: Friday, March 7, 1997
Suggested topics (Week 8):
The interstellar cycle.
Star birth in giant molecular clouds.
Protostars, T Tauri stars, Herbig-Haro objects.
Observations of stellar birth.
Nuclear fusion in the Sun.
The solar neutrino problem.
Hydrogen fusion reactors on earth.
Energy transport mechanisms.
The interiors of stars.
The Orion Nebula.
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Talk date: Wednesday, March 12, 1997
Suggested topics (Week 9):
Observations of stellar birth.
Nuclear fusion in the Sun.
The solar neutrino problem.
Hydrogen fusion reactors on earth.
Energy transport mechanisms.
The interiors of stars.
The Orion Nebula.
Searches for low mass stars and brown dwarfs.
The life of a main sequence star.
Mass, luminosity and lifetimes of stars.
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Talk date: Wednesday, March 12, 1997
Suggested topics (Week 9):
Observations of stellar birth.
Nuclear fusion in the Sun.
The solar neutrino problem.
Hydrogen fusion reactors on earth.
Energy transport mechanisms.
The interiors of stars.
The Orion Nebula.
Searches for low mass stars and brown dwarfs.
The life of a main sequence star.
Mass, luminosity and lifetimes of stars.
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Talk date: Friday, March 14, 1997
Suggested topics (Week 9):
Hydrogen fusion reactors on earth.
Energy transport mechanisms.
The interiors of stars.
The Orion Nebula.
Searches for low mass stars and brown dwarfs.
The life of a main sequence star.
Mass, luminosity and lifetimes of stars.
Red giant stars.
Helium fusion and the helium flash.
Fusion of elements heavier than helium.
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Talk date: Monday, March 24, 1997
Suggested topics (Week 10):
Searches for low mass stars and brown dwarfs.
The life of a main sequence star.
Mass, luminosity and lifetimes of stars.
Red giant stars.
Helium fusion and the helium flash.
Fusion of elements heavier than helium.
Stellar evolution in star clusters.
Comparison of open and globular clusters.
Cepheid and RR Lyrae variables.
The origin of pulsations in stars.
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Talk date: Wednesday, March 26, 1997
Suggested topics (Week 10):
Red giant stars.
Helium fusion and the helium flash.
Fusion of elements heavier than helium.
Stellar evolution in star clusters.
Comparison of open and globular clusters.
Cepheid and RR Lyrae variables.
The origin of pulsations in stars.
Formation of planetary nebulae.
Observations of planetary nebulae.
White dwarf stars.
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Talk date: Friday, March 28, 1997
Suggested topics (Week 10):
Stellar evolution in star clusters.
Cepheid and RR Lyrae variables.
Formation of planetary nebulae.
Observations of planetary nebulae.
White dwarf stars.
Physics of supernova explosions.
Observations of supernovae.
Supernova 1987a.
Binary star evolution.
Nova explosions.
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Talk date: Monday, March 31, 1997
Suggested topics (Week 11):
White dwarf stars.
Physics of supernova explosions.
Observations of supernovae.
Supernova 1987a.
Binary star evolution.
Nova explosions.
The discovery of pulsars.
Models of pulsars.
Binary pulsars.
Planets orbiting pulsars.
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Talk date: Wednesday, April 2, 1997
Suggested topics (Week 11):
Physics of supernova explosions.
Observations of supernovae.
Nova explosions.
The discovery of pulsars.
Models of pulsars.
Binary pulsars.
Planets orbiting pulsars.
The basic physics of black holes.
The search for black holes.
Jets of energy from compact objects.
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Talk date: Friday, April 4, 1997
Suggested topics (Week 11):
Physics of supernova explosions.
The discovery of pulsars.
Models of pulsars.
Binary pulsars.
Planets orbiting pulsars.
The basic physics of black holes.
The search for black holes.
Jets of energy from compact objects.
Early ideas about the Milky Way.
Components of the Milky Way.
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Talk date: Friday, April 4, 1997
Suggested topics (Week 11):
Physics of supernova explosions.
The discovery of pulsars.
Models of pulsars.
Binary pulsars.
Planets orbiting pulsars.
The basic physics of black holes.
The search for black holes.
Jets of energy from compact objects.
Early ideas about the Milky Way.
Components of the Milky Way.
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Talk date: Monday, April 7, 1997
Suggested topics (Week 12):
Binary pulsars.
The basic physics of black holes.
The search for black holes.
Jets of energy from compact objects.
Early ideas about the Milky Way.
Components of the Milky Way.
Stellar populations in the Milky Way.
Theories of the formation of the Milky Way.
Observations of the spiral arms of the Milky Way.
Theories regarding the spiral arms.
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Talk date: Wednesday, April 9, 1997
Suggested topics (Week 12):
The basic physics of black holes.
The search for black holes.
Early ideas about the Milky Way.
Components of the Milky Way.
Stellar populations in the Milky Way.
Theories of the formation of the Milky Way.
Observations of the spiral arms of the Milky Way.
Theories regarding the spiral arms.
Observations of the galactic core.
Evidence for a black hole at the galactic core.
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Talk date: Wednesday, April 9, 1997
Suggested topics (Week 12):
The basic physics of black holes.
The search for black holes.
Early ideas about the Milky Way.
Components of the Milky Way.
Stellar populations in the Milky Way.
Theories of the formation of the Milky Way.
Observations of the spiral arms of the Milky Way.
Theories regarding the spiral arms.
Observations of the galactic core.
Evidence for a black hole at the galactic core.
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Talk date: Friday, April 11, 1997
Suggested topics (Week 12):
Stellar populations in the Milky Way.
Theories of the formation of the Milky Way.
Theories regarding the spiral arms.
Observations of the galactic core.
Evidence for a black hole at the galactic core.
Elliptical galaxies.
Spiral galaxies.
Determining distances to galaxies.
Determining masses of galaxies.
The Hubble Law.
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Talk date: Monday, April 14, 1997
Suggested topics (Week 13):
Observations of the galactic core.
Evidence for a black hole at the galactic core.
Elliptical galaxies.
Spiral galaxies.
Determining distances to galaxies.
Determining masses of galaxies.
The Hubble Law.
Colliding galaxies.
Clusters of galaxies.
Models for the evolution of galaxies.
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Talk date: Wednesday, April 16, 1997
Suggested topics (Week 13):
Determining distances to galaxies.
Determining masses of galaxies.
The Hubble Law.
Colliding galaxies.
Clusters of galaxies.
Models for the evolution of galaxies.
Seyfert galaxies.
Double lobed radio sources.
Jets from active galactic nuclei.
Evidence for black holes in active galactic nuclei.
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Talk date: Friday, April 18, 1997
Suggested topics (Week 13):
Colliding galaxies.
Clusters of galaxies.
Models for the evolution of galaxies.
Seyfert galaxies.
Double lobed radio sources.
Jets from active galactic nuclei.
Evidence for black holes in active galactic nuclei.
Discovery of quasars.
Determining the distances to quasars.
Models of quasars.
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Talk date: Wednesday, April 23, 1997
Suggested topics (Week 14):
Seyfert galaxies.
Double lobed radio sources.
Jets from active galactic nuclei.
Discovery of quasars.
Determining the distances to quasars.
Models of quasars.
Olbers' paradox.
Evidence for expansion of the universe.
Primordial background radiation.
The history of the Big Bang.
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Talk date: Wednesday, April 23, 1997
Suggested topics (Week 14):
Seyfert galaxies.
Double lobed radio sources.
Jets from active galactic nuclei.
Discovery of quasars.
Determining the distances to quasars.
Models of quasars.
Olbers' paradox.
Evidence for expansion of the universe.
Primordial background radiation.
The history of the Big Bang.
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Talk date: Friday, April 25, 1997
Suggested topics (Week 14):
Discovery of quasars.
Determining the distances to quasars.
Models of quasars.
Olbers' paradox.
Evidence for expansion of the universe.
Primordial background radiation.
The history of the Big Bang.
Dark matter in the universe.
Determining the age of the universe.
The origin of structure in the universe.
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