Course description

From old, humanity has wondered about the stars and what is out there in space. In the beginning, humans focused on visual ways to find and convey those answers, but in roughly the last century, astronomers have developed various techniques to sensorially explore, discover, and convey in-depth information about the mysteries of the universe. In this course students learn about the life and death of stars while focusing on how the death of a star is involved in the generation of more stellar wonders and even life in the universe. We study what stars leave behind after their deaths, the emergence of gravitational waves from different systems, and the properties of dynamical space time. We multi-sensorially use telescopes to obtain our own data to understand these phenomena. This is an interactive, in-depth astronomy course covering introductory themes.

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