Introductions

Welcome

Appetizer: The Big Picture

• The full moon, lunar craters
  Mars and Maritan surface, Jupiter, Saturn & rings, Neptune
• Earth as a planet: continental drift
  
• Decoding starlight: solar spectrum
• The Orion nebula: zoom in to find protoplanetary disks
• Planets around other stars: now imaged for the first time!
• Supernova 1987A: boom!, HST rings in 1994, and movie of change till 2006
• The Great Galaxy in Andromeda
• The Hubble Deep Field and the Ultra Deep Field

• The Sun today:

  image as seen through a red H-alpha filter

  image as seen in X-rays

  image as seen in radio waves

  image as seen in solar neutrinos

• Exotica
  strange things afoot at the center of our Galaxy
  relativistic jet from center of a nearby galaxy

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