| Class Outline |
| Unit 1: The Galaxy |
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| Structure |
| Intro to the Galaxy |
| Using Star Counts |
| Measuring Distances in the Milky Way |
| The Size of the Milky Way |
| Metallicity and Stellar Populations |
| The Disk |
| The Interstellar Medium |
| The Bulge |
| The Stellar Halo |
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| Kinematics |
| Solar Motion |
| Velocities of Stars |
| Galactic Rotation |
| Dark Matter |
| The Galactic Center |
| The Galactic Center |
| Zooming in on Sag A* |
| What the hell is that thing? |
| The Galaxy's Environment |
| Companions and the Local Group |
| The Formation of the Milky Way |
| Unit 2: Other Galaxies |
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| Introduction to Galaxies |
| The Great Debate |
| Galaxy Morphology |
| General Properties |
| Spiral Galaxies |
| General Properties |
| Stellar Populations and Spectral Synthesis |
| Spiral Structure |
| Barred Galaxies |
| Elliptical Galaxies |
| Structure |
| Stellar Populations |
| Kinematics |
| Peculiar Galaxies |
| Starburst Galaxies |
| Interacting Galaxies |
| Galaxy Evolution |
| Quasars and Active Galaxies |
| Unit 3: Cosmology and the Universe |
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| The Universe on Large Scales |
| The Extragalactic Distance Scale |
| Galaxy Clusters and Large Scale Structure |
| Cosmological Models |
| The Expanding Universe |
| The Dynamics of an Expanding Universe |
| Curved Spacetime |
| The Density Parameter |
| Observational Cosmology |
| The Age of the Universe |
| Geometrical Tests of Cosmology |
| Using Supernovae to Study Cosmology |
| The Cosmological Constant |
| Ages and Lookback Times |
| The Big Bang and Early Universe |
| The Microwave Background |
| Motivating Inflation |
| The Early Universe |
| Big Bang Nucleosynthesis |
| Recombination |
| Building the Universe |
| The Growth of Primordial Density Fluctuations |
| Dark Matter -- Hot and Cold |
| Hierarchical Structure Formation |
| Testing the Picture |
| Galaxy Formation and Evolution |