The current lecture notes projected in class are made available on this page. The notes are in Adobe Acrobat PDF format:
Note that any original material in these notes is copyright S. Kawaler, and is intended for use by Astro 150 students. They are not to be reproduced or distributed in electronic or paper form on any platform.
- Lecture 1 (8-18) Introduction: the scales of the Universe
Music: Cosmic Girl (lyrics), Jamiroquoi -- and -- Woodstock (lyrics), Joni Mitchell
Images shown
- The Andromeda Galaxy, M31
- A minuet of galaxies
- M106 - spiral galaxy viewed in many non-optical and optical wavelength bands
- The Hubble Deep Field
- The eXtreme Deep Field
- Supernova 1987a, before and after
- The Vela supernova remnant
- NGC 602 - a stunning embryonic star cluster
- Stellar embryos exposed in M16
- Protoplanetary disks in the Orion Nebula
- Protostellar jets from HH24
- Image of extrasolar planet orbiting the star Fomalhaut
- Kepler's family of planets
