Introductions

Welcome

Appetizer: The Big Picture

• The full moon, lunar craters
  Mars and Maritan selfie, Jupiter, Saturn & rings, Pluto
• Earth as a planet: continental drift
  
• Decoding starlight: solar spectrum
• Orion's great nebula: zoom in to find protoplanetary disks
• Planets around other stars: the movie!; a recent census
• Supernova 1987A: boom!, HST rings in 1994, and movie spanning 30 years
• The Great Galaxy in Andromeda
• The Hubble Ultra Deep Field
• Welcome to the era of gravity wave astronomy!
  LIGO detectors: Hanford and Livingston, merging black holes, merging neutron stars

• The Sun today:

  image as seen in visible light

  image as seen through a red H-alpha filter

  image as seen in ultraviolet light

  image as seen in solar neutrinos

• Exotica: relativistic jet from center of a nearby galaxy

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