Sample Downloads
Here you can download a sample presentation from each of our current (non-Major Project) units. Participants in our units study from our custom-made course material, delivered online with accompanying downloadable PDF files. Each unit contains approximately 35 to 40 presentations like these, all of which are written by professional astronomers.-
AST80005/HET602 - Watching the Moon: Time & Tide
(Exploring the Solar System)
AST80004/HET603 - Learning About Stars From Their Spectra
(Exploring Stars and the Milky Way)
AST80006/HET624 - Theories of Galaxy Formation: How the Universe
Got its Lumps
(Galaxies and Their Place in the Universe )
AST80003/HET625 - The Equivalence Principle: A Question of Mass
(Cosmology & the Large-scale Structure of the Universe)
AST80018/HET606 - Image Formation in the Eye and the Telescope
(Tools of Modern Astronomy)
AST80008/HET607 - The Ionian Philosophers
(History of Astronomy)
AST80002/HET609 - Making a Colour Image
(Astrophotography & CCD Imaging)
AST80017/HET610 - Costs, Risks, and Benefits: Science and the
Citizen
(Studies in Space Exploration)
AST80016/HET611 - Pulsating Stars: Stars that Breathe
(Stellar Astrophysics)
AST80001/HET618 - Organic Molecules in Space
(Astrobiology & the Origins of Life)
AST80015/HET620 - Planet Formation: Disk Formation and Evolution
(Planetary Science)