Courses for Astronomy

38 free courses & lectures available for Astronomy

Jupiter: Crash Course Astronomy #16

by CrashCourse on Youtube Youtube

Duration: 0.18 hours

Jupiter is the biggest planet in our solar system. The gas giant is NOT a failed star, but a really successful planet! It has a dynamic atmosphere with belts and ...

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Jupiter's Moons: Crash Course Astronomy #17

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Duration: 0.18 hours

Before moving on from Jupiter to Saturn, we're going to linger for a moment on Jupiter's moons. There are 67 known moons, and 4 huge ones that we want to ...

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Uranus & Neptune: Crash Course Astronomy #19

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Duration: 0.21 hours

Today we're rounding out our planetary tour with ice giants Uranus and Neptune. Both have small rocky cores, thick mantles of ammonia, water, and methane, ...

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Asteroids: Crash Course Astronomy #20

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Now that we've finished our tour of the planets, we're headed back to the asteroid belt. Asteroids are chunks of rock, metal, or both that were once part of ...

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Light: Crash Course Astronomy #24

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Duration: 0.18 hours

In order to understand how we study the universe, we need to talk a little bit about light. Light is a form of energy. Its wavelength tells us its energy and color.

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Distances: Crash Course Astronomy #25

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Duration: 0.19 hours

How do astronomers make sense out of the vastness of space? How do they study things so far away? Today Phil talks about distances, going back to early ...

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High Mass Stars: Crash Course Astronomy #31

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Duration: 0.2 hours

Massive stars fuse heavier elements in their cores than lower mass stars. This leads to the creation of heavier elements up to iron. Iron robs critical energy from ...

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Neutron Stars: Crash Course Astronomy #32

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Duration: 0.22 hours

In the aftermath of a 8 – 20 solar mass star's demise we find a weird little object known as a neutron star. Neutrons stars are incredibly dense, spin rapidly, and ...

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Black Holes: Crash Course Astronomy #33

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Duration: 0.21 hours

We've covered a lot of incredible stuff, but this week we're talking about the weirdest objects in space: BLACK HOLES. Stellar mass black holes form when a ...

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The Milky Way: Crash Course Astronomy #37

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Today we're talking about our galactic neighborhood: The Milky Way. It's a disk galaxy, a collection of dust, gas, and hundreds of billions of stars, with the Sun ...

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