Astronomy

Astronomy is the science of celestial objects and phenomena that originate outside the Earth's atmosphere, such as stars, planets, comets, aurorae, galaxies, and the cosmic background radiation. It is concerned with the formation and development of the universe, the evolution and physical and chemical properties of celestial objects and the calculation of their motions.

TODO

• Link to information about supernova/asteroid online searches

• Link to data sources
• Link to amateur astronomers societies (and get amateur astronomers to this page)
• Load in the astrophysics source code library

Divisions and Departments

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Prerequisite knowlege

• Calculus
• Algebra
• Introduction to physics

Beginners Astronomy

• Topic:Introduction to Astronomy
• Topic:Solar System and Stellar Astronomy
  • Stellar Evolution
• Topic:Galactic and Extragalactic Astronomy
• Topic:Cosmic Evolution

Outside related material

• Multivariable Calculus
• Introduction to differentiation
• Electricity and Magnetism in Physics
• Basic thermodynamics
• Introduction to Quantum Physics

Medium level Astronomy

• Topic:Introduction to Astrophysics
• Topic:Practical Astronomy

Related material

• Differential Equations
• Fundamental Physics Laboratory
• Oscillations and Waves
• Classical Mechanics
• Quantum Mechanics

Advanced Astronomy

• Topic:Galactic Astronomy
• Topic:The Interstellar Medium
• Topic:Binary and Variable Stars
• Topic:Galaxies Beyond the Milky Way
• Topic:Directed Readings in Current Literature
• Topic:Stellar Astrophysics
• Topic:Radiation in Planetary Atmospheres
• Topic:Astronomical Instrumentation and Techniques
• Topic:Cosmology
• Topic:Clusters of Galaxies
• Topic:Astrophysical Dynamics
• Topic:Computational Methods
• Topic:Astrophysical Hydrodynamics

Related material

• Electromagnetic Theory
  • Electromagnetic Waves

Active participants

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• User:Roadrunner
• User:Suto

Are you interested in Astronomy? Would you like to create instruction material and help out with people studying this topic? Sign up to be a participant by adding your username to this list!

School news

• August 17, 2006 - School founded!

Lessons

Get to work writing lessons! Simply make a link to the name of the lesson (lessons are independent pages) and start writing!

Research projects

This feature of Wikiversity will be implemented later pending further discussion.

Proposed Learning project: Astronomy Project - students access public astronomy databases and explore outer space.

Astrophysics Source Code Library = ASCL

BoomCode - GPL Type II supernova collapse code

http://www.aavso.org/ - American Association of Variable Star Observers

Resources

Know any good resources for scholars of this topic? Add them here!

Wikiresources

• Topic:Astronomy/Wikiresources

External Resources

• [1] - Journal article database
• [2] - Preprints database
• [3] - Astrophysics source code library
• Dick McCray's Astronomy Hypertext

Careers

• [4] - Astrophysics job rumor mill
• [5] - AAS Job Register
• [6] - AAS Non-Academic Astronomy Network