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  1. Jan. 13, 1999 Introduction
  2. Jan. 18, 1999 Looking Carefully at the Sky
  3. Jan. 20, 1999 How the Earth and Moon move
  4. Jan. 22, 1999 The phases of the Moon
  5. Jan. 25, 1999 How ancient people understood the solar system
  6. Jan. 27, 1999 The Copernican revolution
  7. Feb. 1, 1999 How we understand the solar system today
  8. Feb. 3, 1999 Modern astronomy and relativity
  9. Feb. 8, 1999 Optical telescopes
  10. Feb. 10, 1999 Radio and high energy telescopes
  11. Feb. 15, 1999 How we study the light from stars
  12. Feb. 17, 1999 What we learn from stellar spectra
  13. Feb. 22, 1999 Properties and structure of the Sun
  14. Feb. 24, 1999 Solar activity
  15. Feb. 26, 1999 Measuring stars
  16. Mar. 1, 1999 Binary stars
  17. Mar. 3, 1999 The interstellar medium
  18. Mar. 8, 1999 The formations of stars
  19. Mar. 10, 1999 How stars get their energy
  20. Mar. 22, 1999 Stellar evolution: the Main Sequence
  21. Mar. 24, 1999 Stellar evolution: after the Main Sequence
  22. Mar. 29, 1999 The deaths of stars
  23. Mar. 31, 1999 Neutron stars and black holes
  24. Apr. 5, 1999 The Milky Way Galaxy
  25. Apr. 7, 1999 The structure of our galaxy
  26. Apr. 9, 1999 Other galaxies
  27. Apr. 12, 1999 Peculiar galaxies
  28. Apr. 19, 1999 The structure of the universe
  29. Apr. 21, 1999 The Big Bang and the origin of the universe