Sample Downloads
Here you can download a sample presentation from each of our current 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.-
HET602 - Watching the Moon: Time & Tide
(Exploring the Solar System)
HET603 - Learning About Stars From Their Spectra
(Exploring Stars and the Milky Way)
HET624 - Theories of Galaxy Formation: How the Universe
Got its Lumps
(Galaxies and Their Place in the Universe )
HET625 - The Equivalence Principle: A Question of Mass
(Cosmology & the Large-scale Structure of the Universe)
HET606 - Image Formation in the Eye and the Telescope
(Tools of Modern Astronomy)
HET607 - The Ionian Philosophers
(History of Astronomy)
HET608 - Mechanisms of Thermal and Non-thermal Radio
Emission
(Radio Astronomy & SETI)
HET609 - Making a Colour Image
(Astrophotography & CCD Imaging)
HET610 - Costs, Risks, and Benefits: Science and the
Citizen
(Studies in Space Exploration)
HET611 - Pulsating Stars: Stars that Breathe
(Stellar Astrophysics)
HET614 - The Particle Zoo: Lend Me a Lepton
(Particle Physics & High Energy Astrophysics )
HET616 - Pluto: Planet or Not a Planet?
(Great Debates in Astronomy)
HET618 - Organic Molecules in Space
(Astrobiology & the Origins of Life)