Astronomy Picture of the Day: Stickney Crater
November 7, 2009
Stickney Crater Stickney Crater, the largest crater on the martian moon Phobos, is named for Chloe Angeline Stickney Hall, mathematician and wife of astronomer Asaph Hall. Asaph Hall discovered both the Red Planet's moons in 1877. Over...
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This course starts by introducing astronomy as a science. We start as the ancients did, by looking at the sky and trying to understand the motions of the stars and planets. We will then discuss how more modern astronomers have approached the problem by learning how to analyze light. Once we have our astronomical background firmly established, we will start studying the stars above and the galaxies containing them, finishing with a discussion of the history and destiny of the Universe.