Environmental Science/physics 141: Astronomy Notes

Steven Dutch, Professor Emeritus, Natural and Applied Sciences, University of Wisconsin - Green Bay

Topic	Notes
Some Basic Stuff You Have to Know The Universe: Table of Contents	A Few Things You Really Need to Know First
Finding Your Way In The Sky	Finding Your Way Around The Sky Taking Pictures of the Sky
How The Solar System Works	How the Solar System Works How planets Work Rings and Resonances About Orbits and Satellites
The Earth and Moon	Earth Earth Images - Surface Features Earth Images - Distant Views Crater Forms Craters and Planetary History The Moon Artificial Satellites
Venus and Mercury	Mercury Mercury Images Venus Venus Global Topography Venus Global Images Venus Surface Features The (Almost) Venus-Earth Pentagram
Mars	Mars The Martian Landscape
The Gas Giants	Jupiter Jupiter Images Jupiter Images - Satellites Saturn Saturn Images Saturn Images - Satellites Uranus Uranus Images Neptune Neptune Images
Minor planets, Comets, and other Small Objects	Asteroids (Minor planets) Comets The Kuiper Belt Pluto Pluto Images
Our Star: The Sun	The Sun
Other Stars	The Stars as Seen from Earth Distances to the Sun and Stars Starlight And What It Tells Us Life Cycles of Stars
The Deep Sky
Galaxies	Galaxies: Their Structure and Distances
The Universe	Cosmology: Structure, Origin and Fate of the Universe
Life in the Universe

Texts: Seeds and Backman, Perspectives on Astronomy

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Created 30 June 2008, Last Update 31 May 2020