Astronomy Picture of the Day: Sideways Galaxy NGC 3628
May 15, 2008
Dark dust lanes cut across the middle of this gorgeous island universe, a strong hint that NGC 3628 is a spiral galaxy seen sideways. About 35 million light-years away in the northern springtime constellation Leo, NGC 3628 also bears the...
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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.