Astronomy 100H - Exploring the Universe
Spring
2021
01
4.00
Alexandra Pope
TU TH 1:00PM 2:15PM
UMass Amherst
72503
Fully Remote Class
pope@astro.umass.edu
Lecture: For nonscience majors. Introductory survey of astronomy. How we learn about the Universe and what we already know of it, how it originated, evolves, and its ultimate fate. Emphasis on modern research in solar phenomena, stellar evolution (including white dwarfs, neutron stars, pulsars, and black holes) and galaxy studies (including quasars).
This course is open to Commonwealth Honors College students only. Attendance is mandatory for the first two lectures. Enrolled students who fail to show up may be removed from the class list.