ASTR 105 - Stars, Galaxies, and Cosmology

Semester Offered: Spring
1 unit(s)

This course is designed to acquaint the student with our present understanding of the universe. The course discusses the formation, structure, and evolution of gas clouds, stars, and galaxies, and then places them in the larger content of clusters and superclusters of galaxies. The Big Bang, GUTS, inflation, the early stages of the universe’s expansion, and its ultimate fate are explored.

Open to all classes.

Course Format: CLS