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Introduction
1. The Scientific Method
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2. Falsifiability
3. Confidence
4. Our Location in Space (Assignment)
5. Lookback Time (Assignment)
6. What is moving? The Stars or the Earth?
7. Celestial Sphere - Introduction
8. Constellations - A Summary
9. Celestial Coordinates - A Summary
10. Spectra (Graded Reading)
11. Thermal Radiation (Graded Reading)
12. Thermal Spectra (Graded Reading)
13. Spectral Lines and Photons (Graded Reading)
14. Spectral Lines and Elements (Graded Reading)
15. Spectral Lines and Electron Orbitals (Graded Reading)
16. Modeling Absorption and Emission Spectra (Assignment)
17. Observing the ISM - IR, Optical & UV (Graded Reading)
18. Observing the ISM - Radio & Microwave (Graded Reading)
19. Bright Stars - Luminous or Nearby? (Graded Reading)
20. Introduction to the Magnitude System
21. Apparent and Absolute Magnitude
22. Parallax (Graded Reading)
23. Measuring a Star’s Size – The Challenge (Graded Reading)
24. Stellar Radii (Lesson)
25. Numbers in Astronomy - Powers of Ten
26. The Pizza and Proportional Reasoning
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