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Open Stax Andrew Fraknoi

 

 

Astronomy

An introduction to astronomy covering constellations, solar and planetary motions, lunar phases and eclipses, cosmological models, starlight and spectroscopy, telescopes, planets, and the origin and evolution of the solar system. This course also includes current ideas related to the Sun, single and binary stars, star clusters, stellar evolution, black holes, galaxies, relativity and cosmology including dark matter, dark energy and the search for life beyond our planet.

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Chapter 0 Charting the heavens
Sidereal time vs solar time explained
Naked eye observations crash course astronomy
The Universe Season 5 Episode 7 “Total Eclipse”
Eclipses- Crash course Astronomy
Moon phases- Crash course Astronomy

Chapter 0 Quizlet

Chapter 1 Copernican revolutions
Equinox explained
Equinox – PBS Spacetime
How the Earth moves
The Universe Season 8 Episode 1 “Stonehenge”
The Universe Season 8 Episode 2 “Pyramids”

Chapter 1 Quizlet

Chapter 2 Light and matter
Quizlet practice
Light in Astronomy – Crash course astronomy

Chapter 3 Telescopes

Inside the race to see the edge of the universe

Quizlet practice
Crash course Astronomy telescopes
Radio waves from nearby galaxy  Washington Post Article
Parabolic mirror hologram explained
The Universe Season 5 Episode 5 “Secrets of Space probes”

Chapter 4 The Solar System
The Universe Season 2 Episode 17 “Gravity”
Accretion Simulation
Gravity explained
How asteroid mining could get us into space – Ted Talk


The Universe Season 6 Episode 3 “How the Solar System was made”
Meteors – Crash Course Astronomy
Introduction to the solar system – Crash Course Astronomy
The Oort cloud – Crash Course Astronomy
Quizlet practice

Chapter 5 Earth and its Moon
The Universe Season 1 Episode 5 “The Moon”
The Universe Season 1 Episode 6 “Spaceship Earth”
The Universe Season 2 Episode 3 “Mysteries of the Moon”
The Earth – Crash Course Astronomy
The moon- Crash Course Astronomy
Zoom in on the moon Day
Zoom in on the moon Night
The tides explained

Chapter 6 Terrestrial Planets
The Universe season 1 Episode 2 “Mars the Red Planet”
The Universe Season 1 Episode 7  “Mercury and Venus” the Inner planets
Mars: Crash Course Astronomy
Venus: Crash course Astronomy
Mercury: Crash course Astronomy
How to live on Mercury
Colonizing Mercury
Colonizing Venus
NASA’s plan for a colony on Venus

The the surprising ways that Mars will kill you

Chapter 7 The Jovian Planets
The Universe Season 1 Episode 4 “Jupiter: the Giant Planet”
The Universe Season 1 Episode  8 “Saturn Lord of the Rings”
The Universe Season 1 Episode 11 “The Outer Planets”
Crash course astronomy Jupiter
Crash course astronomy – Saturn
Crash course astronomy Uranus and Neptune
Quizlet practice

On Jupiter- Destroyer of comets

Chapter 8 Moons, Rings and Pluto
The Universe Season 2 Episode 5 “Alien Moons”
Jupiter’s Moons- Crash Course Astronomy

Titan: Saturn’s Largest moon

Saturn’s Moon Enceladus

NASA’s New Horizons Mission to Pluto

Europa – Jupiter’s Moon with a hidden ocean

Chapter 9 The Sun

The Universe: Secrets of the Sun

Crashing into the Sun is hard
The Universe Season 2 Episode 8 “Space Travel”
The Sun – Crash Course Astronomy

Quizlet chapters 8 and 9

Chapter 10 Measuring the Stars

How do we measure distance to the stars?

Distances: Crash Course Astronomy

Stars Crash Course Astronomy

Chapter 11 Interstellar Medium
The Universe Season 2 Episode 14 “Nebulas”
Crash course Astronomy Nebulae
Parallax in observing stars Khan Academy
Parallax in observing stars – Clarification Khan Academy

Chapter 12 Stellar Evolution

The End of the Habitable Zone – Space Time

The Universe Season 1 Episode 10 “The Life and Death of a Star”
The Universe Season 2 Episode 9 “Supernovas”

Why are there no green or blue stars?

Chapter 13 Neutron Stars and Black Holes

Black holes explained
Neutron Stars
White holes
The Universe Season 2 Episode 2 “Cosmic Holes”
The Universe Season 1 Episode 12 “Most Dangerous Places”

Chapter 14 The Milky Way
The Universe Season 2 Episode 4 “The Milky Way”
The Milky Way – Crash Course Astronomy
Monster of the Milky Way – Nova

Chapter 15 Normal and active Galaxies
The Universe Season 1 Episode 9 “Alien Galaxies”

Galaxies, part 1: Crash Course Astronomy #38
Galaxies, part 2: Crash Course Astronomy #39

Chapter 16 Galaxies and Dark Matter
Documentary on Dark matter
The Universe Season 2 Episode 6 “Dark Matter and Dark Energy”
Dark matter- Crash Course Astronomy
Dark Energy – Crash Course Astronomy

Chapter 17 Cosmology
The universe in a nutshell – Michio Kaku
The Universe Season 1 Episode 14 “Beyond the Big Bang”
The Universe Season 3 Episode 2 “Parallel ”
The Universe Season 5 Episode 5 “Time Travel”

Chapter 18 Life in the universe
Do planets need magnetic fields for life? Ted x
Life aboard a space station
7 Earth-like planets discovered around the same star
The Universe Season 2 Episode 1 “Alien Planets”
The Universe Season 1 Episode 13 “Search for ET”
The Universe Season 2 Episode 7 “Astrobiology”
The Universe Season 2 Episode 8 “Space Travel”
The Universe Season 2 Episode 13 “Colonizing Space”
The Universe Season 3 Episode 7 “Living in Space”
Are we alone in the universe? Tedx

Supplemental videos
The Universe Season 2 Episode 17 “Gravity”

Why is the Sun slowing down?

Weird physics warps stars light

Star with in a star

What is a neutrino?

How do spacecraft navigate in space?

The origin of our First Interstellar Visitor – Space Time