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Astronomy: The Human Quest for Understanding
Companion site to the textbook by Dale A. Ostlie, Oxford University Press, 2022
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Part I
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Chapter 1: The Nature of Science
Chapter 2: The Heaven: A Realm of Mystery
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Chapter 2: Key Words
Chapter 2: Presentation Slides
Chapter 2: Videos
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Chapter 2: Motions of the Stars: Part I
Chapter 2: Motions of the Stars: Part II
Chapter 2: Motions of the Sun
Chapter 2: Phases of the Moon
Chapter 2: Retrograde Motion of the “Wandering Stars”
Chapter 2: Figure Sources
Chapter 3: On the Path toward Modern Science
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Chapter 3: Key Words
Chapter 3: Presentation Slides
Chapter 3: Videos
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Chapter 3: Motions of the Stars with Latitude
Chapter 3: Motions of the Sun with Latitude and the Seasons
Chapter 3: Figure Sources
Chapter 4: The Copernican Revolution
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Chapter 4: Key Words
Chapter 4: Presentation Slides
Chapter 4: Videos
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Chapter 4: Phases of the Moon
Chapter 4: Retrograde motion of Mars
Chapter 4: Graph Templates for Exercises
Chapter 4: Figure Sources
Chapter 5: Sir Isaac Newton’s Universe
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Chapter 5: Key Words
Chapter 5: Presentation Slides
Chapter 5: Key Equations Tutorials
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Newton’s Universal Law of Gravitation
Kepler’s Third Law
Chapter 5: Figure Sources
Chapter 6: The Universality of Physical Law
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Chapter 6: Key Words
Chapter 6: Presentation Slides
Chapter 6: Key Equations Tutorials
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Escape Speed
Wien’s Law and Surface Temperature
Stefan-Boltzmann Luminosity Law
Inverse Square Law of Light (The brightness equation)
Chapter 6: Wave form for Exercise 6.82
Chapter 6: Figure Sources
Chapter 7: Revealing Secrets Hidden in Light and Matter
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Chapter 7: Key Words
Chapter 7: Presentation Slides
Chapter 7: Figure Sources
Chapter 8: Modern Physics: New Science to Study the Universe
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Chapter 8: Key Words
Chapter 8: Presentation Slides
Chapter 8: Key Equations Tutorials
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Energy of a Photon
Doppler Effect
Hydrogen Atom Energy Levels
De Broglie’s Wavelength Equation for Matter
Chapter 8: Figure Sources
Part II
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Chapter 9: The Sun, Our Parent Star
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Chapter 9: Key Words
Chapter 9: Presentation Slides
Chapter 9: Key Equations Tutorials
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Gas Particle Speeds
Ideal Gas Law
Chapter 9: Videos
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Chapter 9: The Sun seen by the Inouye Solar Telescope
Chapter 9: First Sunspot Observed by the Inouye Solar Telescope
Chapter 9: Active sunspot region with extreme solar flare
Chapter 9: An eruptive solar prominence
Chapter 9: Halloween CME storm, 2003
Chapter 9: The majority of one solar cycle
Chapter 9: Figure Sources
Chapter 10: An Overview of the Solar System
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Chapter 10: Key Words
Chapter 10: Presentation Slides
Chapter 10: Figure Sources
Chapter 11: The Rocky Planets and Our Moon
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Chapter 11: Key Words
Chapter 11: Presentation Slides
Chapter 11: Videos
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Chapter 11: Rotating view of the Moon’s full surface
Chapter 11: Artist’s impression of Mars four billion years ago
Chapter 11: Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) throws snowball on the Senate floor
Chapter 11: Global Warming Drivers
Chapter 11: The Pale Blue Dot
Chapter 11: Figure Sources
Chapter 12: The Giant Planet Systems
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Chapter 12: Key Words
Chapter 12: Presentation Slides
Chapter 12: Videos
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Chapter 12: Jupiter’s Dynamic Atmosphere
Chapter 12: Jupiter’s magnetic field
Chapter 12: Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse
Chapter 12: Descent of Huygens’s probe
Chapter 12: Shepherd moons
Chapter 12: Figure Sources
Chapter 13: Dwarf Planets And Small Systems
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Chapter 13: Key Words
Chapter 13: Presentation Slides
Chapter 13: Videos
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Chapter 13: Comet Churyumov–Gerasimenko
Chapter 13: Sungrazing comet in 2010
Chapter 13: Deep Impact
Chapter 13: Tunguska Disaster Simulation
Chapter 13: Figure Sources
Chapter 14: Planets Everywhere and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
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Chapter 14: Key Words
Chapter 14: Presentation Slides
Chapter 14: Videos
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Chapter 14: Historical timeline of planet hunting
Chapter 14: Direct Imaging and Astrometry Methods
Chapter 14: Gravitational Microlensing
Chapter 14: Radial Velocity Method
Chapter 14: The Transit Method
Chapter 14: Figure Sources
Part III
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Chapter 15: Measuring the Stars
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Chapter 15: Key Words
Chapter 15: Presentation Slides
Chapter 15: Key Equations Tutorials
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Brightnesses and Magnitudes
Parallaxes and Distances
Luminosities and Absolute Magnitudes
Determining Stellar Masses
Chapter 15: Figure Sources
Chapter 16: The Lives of Stars
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Chapter 16: Key Words
Chapter 16: Presentation Slides
Chapter 16: Figure Sources
Chapter 17: The End of a Stellar Life
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Chapter 17: Key Words
Chapter 17: Presentation Slides
Chapter 17: Video
Chapter 17: Figure Sources
Chapter 18: Galaxies Galore
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Chapter 18: Key Words
Chapter 18: Presentation Slides
Chapter 18: Videos
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Chapter 18: Crash of the Titans: Milky Way & Andromeda Collision
Chapter 18: Zoom Into Black Hole Jet
Chapter 18: Figure Sources
Chapter 19: The Once and Future Universe
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Chapter 19: Key Words
Chapter 19: Presentation Slides
Chapter 19: Videos
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Chapter 19: Big Bang Animation
Chapter 19:
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Chapter 19: Figure Sources
Math Review
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Exponents
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Graphing
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Order of Operations
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About the Author
Astronomy: The Human Quest for Understanding
Companion site to the textbook by Dale A. Ostlie, Oxford University Press, 2022
Main Menu
Welcome
About this Text
Menu Toggle
Course Planning
Part I
Menu Toggle
Chapter 1: The Nature of Science
Chapter 2: The Heavens: Realm of Mystery
Chapter 2: Key Words
Chapter 2: Presentation Slides
Chapter 2: Videos
Chapter 2: Motions of the Stars: Part I
Chapter 2: Motions of the Stars: Part II
Chapter 2: Motions of the Sun
Chapter 2: Phases of the Moon
Chapter 2: Retrograde Motion of the “Wandering Stars”
Chapter 2: Figure Sources
Chapter 3: On the Path toward Modern Science
Chapter 3: Key Words
Chapter 3: Presentation Slides
Chapter 3: Videos
Chapter 3: Motions of the Stars with Latitude
Chapter 3: Motions of the Sun with Latitude and the Seasons
Chapter 3: Figure Sources
Chapter 4: The Copernican Revolution
Chapter 4: Key Words
Chapter 4: Presentation Slides
Chapter 4: Videos
Chapter 4: Phases of the Moon
Chapter 4: Retrograde motion of Mars
Chapter 4: Graph Templates for Exercises
Chapter 4: Figure Sources
Chapter 5: Sir Isaac Newton’s Universe
Chapter 5: Key Words
Chapter 5: Presentation Slides
Chapter 5: Key Equations Tutorials
Newton’s Universal Law of Gravitation
Kepler’s Third Law
Chapter 5: Figure Sources
Chapter 6: The Universality of Physical Law
Chapter 6: Key Words
Chapter 6: Presentation Slides
Chapter 6: Key Equations Tutorials
Escape Speed
Wien’s Law and Surface Temperature
Stefan-Boltzmann Luminosity Law
Inverse Square Law of Light (The brightness equation)
Chapter 6: Wave form for Exercise 6.82
Chapter 6: Figure Sources
Chapter 7: Revealing Secrets Hidden in Light and Matter
Chapter 7: Key Words
Chapter 7: Presentation Slides
Chapter 7: Figure Sources
Chapter 8: Modern Physics: New Science to Study the Universe
Chapter 8: Key Words
Chapter 8: Presentation Slides
Chapter 8: Key Equations Tutorials
Energy of a Photon
Doppler Effect
Hydrogen Atom Energy Levels
De Broglie’s Wavelength Equation for Matter
Chapter 8: Figure Sources
Part II
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Chapter 11 redirect
Chapter 9: The Sun, Our Parent Star
Chapter 9: Key Words
Chapter 9: Presentation Slides
Chapter 9: Key Equations Tutorials
Gas Particle Speeds
Ideal Gas Law
Chapter 9: Videos
Chapter 9: The Sun seen by the Inouye Solar Telescope
Chapter 9: First Sunspot Observed by the Inouye Solar Telescope
Chapter 9: Active sunspot region with extreme solar flare
Chapter 9: An eruptive solar prominence
Chapter 9: Halloween CME storm, 2003
Chapter 9: The majority of one solar cycle
Chapter 9: Figure Sources
Chapter 10: An Overview of the Solar System
Chapter 10: Key Words
Chapter 10: Presentation Slides
Chapter 10: Figure Sources
Chapter 11: The Rocky Planets and Our Moon
Chapter 11: Figure Sources
Chapter 11: Key Words
Chapter 11: Presentation Slides
Chapter 11: Videos
Chapter 11: Rotating view of the Moon’s full surface
Chapter 11: Artist’s impression of Mars four billion years ago
Chapter 11: Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) throws snowball on the Senate floor
Chapter 11: Global Warming Drivers
Chapter 11: The Pale Blue Dot
Chapter 12: The Giant Planet Systems
Chapter 12: Figure Sources
Chapter 12: Key Words
Chapter 12: Presentation Slides
Chapter 12: Videos
Chapter 12: Jupiter’s Dynamic Atmosphere
Chapter 12: Jupiter’s magnetic field
Chapter 12: Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse
Chapter 12: Descent of Huygens’s probe
Chapter 12: Shepherd moons
Chapter 13: Dwarf Planets And Small Systems
Chapter 13: Key Words
Chapter 13: Presentation Slides
Chapter 13: Videos
Chapter 13: Comet Churyumov–Gerasimenko
Chapter 13: Sungrazing comet in 2010
Chapter 13: Deep Impact
Chapter 13: Tunguska Disaster Simulation
Chapter 13: Figure Sources
Chapter 14: Planets Everywhere and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
Chapter 14: Key Words
Chapter 14: Presentation Slides
Chapter 14: Videos
Chapter 14: Historical timeline of planet hunting
Chapter 14: Direct Imaging and Astrometry Methods
Chapter 14: Gravitational Microlensing
Chapter 14: Radial Velocity Method
Chapter 14: The Transit Method
Chapter 14: Figure Sources
Part III
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Chapter 18: Videos
The M87 Jet
Chapter 15: Measuring the Stars
Chapter 15: Key Words
Chapter 15: Presentation Slides
Chapter 15: Key Equations Tutorials
Brightnesses and Magnitudes
Parallaxes and Distances
Luminosities and Absolute Magnitudes
Determining Stellar Masses
Chapter 15: Figure Sources
Chapter 16: The Lives of Stars
Chapter 16: Key Words
Chapter 16: Presentation Slides
Chapter 16: Figure Sources
Chapter 17: The End of a Stellar Life
Chapter 17: Key Words
Chapter 17: Presentation Slides
Chapter 17: Video
Chapter 17: Figure Sources
Chapter 18: Galaxies Galore
Chapter 18: Key Words
Chapter 18: Presentation Slides
Chapter 18: Videos
Chapter 18: Crash of the Titans: Milky Way & Andromeda Collision
Chapter 18: Zoom Into Black Hole Jet
Chapter 18: Figure Sources
Chapter 19: The Once and Future Universe
Chapter 19: Key Words
Chapter 19: Presentation Slides
Chapter 19: Videos
Chapter 19: Big Bang Animation
Chapter 19:
\Lambda
-CDM Simulations
Chapter 19: Figure Sources
Math Review
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Exponents
Fractions
Graphing
Graph Templates
Order of Operations
Percentages
Prefixes
Scientific Notation
Time and Degrees Arithmetic
Unit Conversions
Variables
Night Sky
What’s New
Errata
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Errata: Chapter 3 Figures
About the Author
Welcome
About this Text
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Course Planning
Part I
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Chapter 1: The Nature of Science
Chapter 2: The Heaven: A Realm of Mystery
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Chapter 2: Key Words
Chapter 2: Presentation Slides
Chapter 2: Videos
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Chapter 2: Motions of the Stars: Part I
Chapter 2: Motions of the Stars: Part II
Chapter 2: Motions of the Sun
Chapter 2: Phases of the Moon
Chapter 2: Retrograde Motion of the “Wandering Stars”
Chapter 2: Figure Sources
Chapter 3: On the Path toward Modern Science
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Chapter 3: Key Words
Chapter 3: Presentation Slides
Chapter 3: Videos
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Chapter 3: Motions of the Stars with Latitude
Chapter 3: Motions of the Sun with Latitude and the Seasons
Chapter 3: Figure Sources
Chapter 4: The Copernican Revolution
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Chapter 4: Key Words
Chapter 4: Presentation Slides
Chapter 4: Videos
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Chapter 4: Phases of the Moon
Chapter 4: Retrograde motion of Mars
Chapter 4: Graph Templates for Exercises
Chapter 4: Figure Sources
Chapter 5: Sir Isaac Newton’s Universe
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Chapter 5: Key Words
Chapter 5: Presentation Slides
Chapter 5: Key Equations Tutorials
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Newton’s Universal Law of Gravitation
Kepler’s Third Law
Chapter 5: Figure Sources
Chapter 6: The Universality of Physical Law
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Chapter 6: Key Words
Chapter 6: Presentation Slides
Chapter 6: Key Equations Tutorials
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Escape Speed
Wien’s Law and Surface Temperature
Stefan-Boltzmann Luminosity Law
Inverse Square Law of Light (The brightness equation)
Chapter 6: Wave form for Exercise 6.82
Chapter 6: Figure Sources
Chapter 7: Revealing Secrets Hidden in Light and Matter
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Chapter 7: Key Words
Chapter 7: Presentation Slides
Chapter 7: Figure Sources
Chapter 8: Modern Physics: New Science to Study the Universe
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Chapter 8: Key Words
Chapter 8: Presentation Slides
Chapter 8: Key Equations Tutorials
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Energy of a Photon
Doppler Effect
Hydrogen Atom Energy Levels
De Broglie’s Wavelength Equation for Matter
Chapter 8: Figure Sources
Part II
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Chapter 9: The Sun, Our Parent Star
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Chapter 9: Key Words
Chapter 9: Presentation Slides
Chapter 9: Key Equations Tutorials
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Gas Particle Speeds
Ideal Gas Law
Chapter 9: Videos
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Chapter 9: The Sun seen by the Inouye Solar Telescope
Chapter 9: First Sunspot Observed by the Inouye Solar Telescope
Chapter 9: Active sunspot region with extreme solar flare
Chapter 9: An eruptive solar prominence
Chapter 9: Halloween CME storm, 2003
Chapter 9: The majority of one solar cycle
Chapter 9: Figure Sources
Chapter 10: An Overview of the Solar System
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Chapter 10: Key Words
Chapter 10: Presentation Slides
Chapter 10: Figure Sources
Chapter 11: The Rocky Planets and Our Moon
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Chapter 11: Key Words
Chapter 11: Presentation Slides
Chapter 11: Videos
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Chapter 11: Rotating view of the Moon’s full surface
Chapter 11: Artist’s impression of Mars four billion years ago
Chapter 11: Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) throws snowball on the Senate floor
Chapter 11: Global Warming Drivers
Chapter 11: The Pale Blue Dot
Chapter 11: Figure Sources
Chapter 12: The Giant Planet Systems
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Chapter 12: Key Words
Chapter 12: Presentation Slides
Chapter 12: Videos
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Chapter 12: Jupiter’s Dynamic Atmosphere
Chapter 12: Jupiter’s magnetic field
Chapter 12: Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse
Chapter 12: Descent of Huygens’s probe
Chapter 12: Shepherd moons
Chapter 12: Figure Sources
Chapter 13: Dwarf Planets And Small Systems
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Chapter 13: Key Words
Chapter 13: Presentation Slides
Chapter 13: Videos
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Chapter 13: Comet Churyumov–Gerasimenko
Chapter 13: Sungrazing comet in 2010
Chapter 13: Deep Impact
Chapter 13: Tunguska Disaster Simulation
Chapter 13: Figure Sources
Chapter 14: Planets Everywhere and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
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Chapter 14: Key Words
Chapter 14: Presentation Slides
Chapter 14: Videos
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Chapter 14: Historical timeline of planet hunting
Chapter 14: Direct Imaging and Astrometry Methods
Chapter 14: Gravitational Microlensing
Chapter 14: Radial Velocity Method
Chapter 14: The Transit Method
Chapter 14: Figure Sources
Part III
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Chapter 15: Measuring the Stars
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Chapter 15: Key Words
Chapter 15: Presentation Slides
Chapter 15: Key Equations Tutorials
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Brightnesses and Magnitudes
Parallaxes and Distances
Luminosities and Absolute Magnitudes
Determining Stellar Masses
Chapter 15: Figure Sources
Chapter 16: The Lives of Stars
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Chapter 16: Key Words
Chapter 16: Presentation Slides
Chapter 16: Figure Sources
Chapter 17: The End of a Stellar Life
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Chapter 17: Key Words
Chapter 17: Presentation Slides
Chapter 17: Video
Chapter 17: Figure Sources
Chapter 18: Galaxies Galore
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Chapter 18: Key Words
Chapter 18: Presentation Slides
Chapter 18: Videos
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Chapter 18: Crash of the Titans: Milky Way & Andromeda Collision
Chapter 18: Zoom Into Black Hole Jet
Chapter 18: Figure Sources
Chapter 19: The Once and Future Universe
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Chapter 19: Key Words
Chapter 19: Presentation Slides
Chapter 19: Videos
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Chapter 19: Big Bang Animation
Chapter 19:
\Lambda
-CDM Simulations
Chapter 19: Figure Sources
Math Review
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Exponents
Fractions
Graphing
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Graph Templates
Order of Operations
Percentages
Prefixes
Scientific Notation
Time and Degrees Arithmetic
Unit Conversions
Variables
Night Sky
What’s New
Errata
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Errata: Chapter 3 Figures
About the Author
Astronomy: The Human Quest for Understanding
Companion site to the textbook by Dale A. Ostlie, Oxford University Press, 2022
Main Menu
Welcome
About this Text
Menu Toggle
Course Planning
Part I
Menu Toggle
Chapter 1: The Nature of Science
Chapter 2: The Heavens: Realm of Mystery
Chapter 2: Key Words
Chapter 2: Presentation Slides
Chapter 2: Videos
Chapter 2: Motions of the Stars: Part I
Chapter 2: Motions of the Stars: Part II
Chapter 2: Motions of the Sun
Chapter 2: Phases of the Moon
Chapter 2: Retrograde Motion of the “Wandering Stars”
Chapter 2: Figure Sources
Chapter 3: On the Path toward Modern Science
Chapter 3: Key Words
Chapter 3: Presentation Slides
Chapter 3: Videos
Chapter 3: Motions of the Stars with Latitude
Chapter 3: Motions of the Sun with Latitude and the Seasons
Chapter 3: Figure Sources
Chapter 4: The Copernican Revolution
Chapter 4: Key Words
Chapter 4: Presentation Slides
Chapter 4: Videos
Chapter 4: Phases of the Moon
Chapter 4: Retrograde motion of Mars
Chapter 4: Graph Templates for Exercises
Chapter 4: Figure Sources
Chapter 5: Sir Isaac Newton’s Universe
Chapter 5: Key Words
Chapter 5: Presentation Slides
Chapter 5: Key Equations Tutorials
Newton’s Universal Law of Gravitation
Kepler’s Third Law
Chapter 5: Figure Sources
Chapter 6: The Universality of Physical Law
Chapter 6: Key Words
Chapter 6: Presentation Slides
Chapter 6: Key Equations Tutorials
Escape Speed
Wien’s Law and Surface Temperature
Stefan-Boltzmann Luminosity Law
Inverse Square Law of Light (The brightness equation)
Chapter 6: Wave form for Exercise 6.82
Chapter 6: Figure Sources
Chapter 7: Revealing Secrets Hidden in Light and Matter
Chapter 7: Key Words
Chapter 7: Presentation Slides
Chapter 7: Figure Sources
Chapter 8: Modern Physics: New Science to Study the Universe
Chapter 8: Key Words
Chapter 8: Presentation Slides
Chapter 8: Key Equations Tutorials
Energy of a Photon
Doppler Effect
Hydrogen Atom Energy Levels
De Broglie’s Wavelength Equation for Matter
Chapter 8: Figure Sources
Part II
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Chapter 11 redirect
Chapter 9: The Sun, Our Parent Star
Chapter 9: Key Words
Chapter 9: Presentation Slides
Chapter 9: Key Equations Tutorials
Gas Particle Speeds
Ideal Gas Law
Chapter 9: Videos
Chapter 9: The Sun seen by the Inouye Solar Telescope
Chapter 9: First Sunspot Observed by the Inouye Solar Telescope
Chapter 9: Active sunspot region with extreme solar flare
Chapter 9: An eruptive solar prominence
Chapter 9: Halloween CME storm, 2003
Chapter 9: The majority of one solar cycle
Chapter 9: Figure Sources
Chapter 10: An Overview of the Solar System
Chapter 10: Key Words
Chapter 10: Presentation Slides
Chapter 10: Figure Sources
Chapter 11: The Rocky Planets and Our Moon
Chapter 11: Figure Sources
Chapter 11: Key Words
Chapter 11: Presentation Slides
Chapter 11: Videos
Chapter 11: Rotating view of the Moon’s full surface
Chapter 11: Artist’s impression of Mars four billion years ago
Chapter 11: Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) throws snowball on the Senate floor
Chapter 11: Global Warming Drivers
Chapter 11: The Pale Blue Dot
Chapter 12: The Giant Planet Systems
Chapter 12: Figure Sources
Chapter 12: Key Words
Chapter 12: Presentation Slides
Chapter 12: Videos
Chapter 12: Jupiter’s Dynamic Atmosphere
Chapter 12: Jupiter’s magnetic field
Chapter 12: Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse
Chapter 12: Descent of Huygens’s probe
Chapter 12: Shepherd moons
Chapter 13: Dwarf Planets And Small Systems
Chapter 13: Key Words
Chapter 13: Presentation Slides
Chapter 13: Videos
Chapter 13: Comet Churyumov–Gerasimenko
Chapter 13: Sungrazing comet in 2010
Chapter 13: Deep Impact
Chapter 13: Tunguska Disaster Simulation
Chapter 13: Figure Sources
Chapter 14: Planets Everywhere and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
Chapter 14: Key Words
Chapter 14: Presentation Slides
Chapter 14: Videos
Chapter 14: Historical timeline of planet hunting
Chapter 14: Direct Imaging and Astrometry Methods
Chapter 14: Gravitational Microlensing
Chapter 14: Radial Velocity Method
Chapter 14: The Transit Method
Chapter 14: Figure Sources
Part III
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Chapter 18: Videos
The M87 Jet
Chapter 15: Measuring the Stars
Chapter 15: Key Words
Chapter 15: Presentation Slides
Chapter 15: Key Equations Tutorials
Brightnesses and Magnitudes
Parallaxes and Distances
Luminosities and Absolute Magnitudes
Determining Stellar Masses
Chapter 15: Figure Sources
Chapter 16: The Lives of Stars
Chapter 16: Key Words
Chapter 16: Presentation Slides
Chapter 16: Figure Sources
Chapter 17: The End of a Stellar Life
Chapter 17: Key Words
Chapter 17: Presentation Slides
Chapter 17: Video
Chapter 17: Figure Sources
Chapter 18: Galaxies Galore
Chapter 18: Key Words
Chapter 18: Presentation Slides
Chapter 18: Videos
Chapter 18: Crash of the Titans: Milky Way & Andromeda Collision
Chapter 18: Zoom Into Black Hole Jet
Chapter 18: Figure Sources
Chapter 19: The Once and Future Universe
Chapter 19: Key Words
Chapter 19: Presentation Slides
Chapter 19: Videos
Chapter 19: Big Bang Animation
Chapter 19:
\Lambda
-CDM Simulations
Chapter 19: Figure Sources
Math Review
Menu Toggle
Exponents
Fractions
Graphing
Graph Templates
Order of Operations
Percentages
Prefixes
Scientific Notation
Time and Degrees Arithmetic
Unit Conversions
Variables
Night Sky
What’s New
Errata
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Errata: Chapter 3 Figures
About the Author
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Chapter 13: Dwarf Planets And Small Systems
Chapter 13: Videos
Chapter 13: Comet Churyumov–Gerasimenko
Chapter 13: Comet Churyumov–Gerasimenko
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