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Sunday 2 January 2011

Yale: Frontiers and Controversies in Astrophysics, Lecture 1


ASTR 160 - Frontiers and Controversies in Astrophysics
Spring 2007
Source: Yale University, Open Yale Courses

Professor Bailyn introduces the course and discusses the course material and requirements. The three major topics that the course will cover are exoplanets, black holes and dark energy. Class proper begins (at about 20:00)  with a discussion on planetary orbits. A brief history of astronomy is also given and its major contributors over the centuries are introduced: Ptolemy, Galileo, Copernicus, Kepler, and Newton.

See other lectures in this series.


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