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Welcome to the Department of Astronomy!

This is a relatively new Department at Wikiversity, and its growth depends on the participation of everyone who seeks to learn about astronomy. The basic philosophy of Wikiversity is to learn by doing. This is reflected in the content of lessons and activities. However, "learning by doing" means more than just reading a lesson and following the directions; hopefully you will participate in the process of creating lessons and sharing your experiences.

To get started try the lesson on Stellar evolution or the activity on Observational astronomy.

For a glimpse of some of the topics that we hope to cover in the future see the Topic:Astronomy/Courses.

If you have any questions about astronomy or requests for topics that you would like to learn, post them to the astronomy help desk.

School news

August 17, 2006 - School founded!

Things to do

Here are some things you can do at this department...

Cleanup all astronomy related pages and organize them
Link to information about supernova/asteroid online searches
- Portal:Asteroid Surveys
Link to data sources
Link to amateur astronomers societies (and get amateur astronomers to this page)
Load in the astrophysics source code library
Create links at Wikipedia to related pages here

Research projects

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

Divisions

Astronomy
Astrobiology - The study of the advent and evolution of biological systems in the universe.
Astrometry - The study of the position of objects in the sky and their changes of position. Defines the system of coordinates used and the kinematics of objects in our galaxy.
Astrophysics - The study of physics of the universe, including the physical properties (luminosity, density, temperature, chemical composition) of astronomical objects.
Cosmology - The study of the origin of the universe and its evolution. The study of cosmology is theoretical astrophysics at its largest scale.
Galactic astronomy - The study of the structure and components of our galaxy and of other galaxies.
Extragalactic astronomy - The study of objects (mainly galaxies) outside our galaxy.
Stellar astronomy - The study of the stars.
Planetary sciences - the study of the planets of the Solar System.
Archaeoastronomy
Astrochemistry
Astrosociobiology
Astrophilosophy
Astromedicine
Astronautics

Courses

Basic courses

Advanced courses

More

Level 1

Level 2

Level 3

Creating content

Get to work writing courses! Simply make a link to the name of the course and start writing!

See: Wikiversity:Naming conventions

Active participants

The histories of Wikiversity pages indicate who the active participants are. If you are an active participant in this school, you can list your name here (this can help small schools grow and the participants communicate better; for large schools it is not needed).

Are you interested in Astronomy? Would you like to create instruction material and help out with people studying this topic? Then be bold and start doing so! Play around; others will try not to bite. Sign up to be a participant by adding your username to this list, or just start editing Wikiversity anyway.

Resources

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

Image:Astronomy Student Mini-Outline.pdf

Wikiresources

Topic:Astronomy/Wikiresources

External links

Careers

Related news

Scientists model hypothetical extrasolar planets
April 26, 2007 - Mexico may get its own space agency...
April 23, 2007 - Researchers find another potentially habitable planet...
March 20, 2007 - EU plans to explore Mercury.
March 6, 2007 - New study produces mathematical rules of galaxy formation.
February 21, 2007 - Astronomers are finally able to analyze the atmosphere of exoplanets

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 * [[Astrophysics Source Code Library]] = ASCL
 * [[BoomCode]] - GPL Type II supernova collapse code
+==Divisions==
+* [[Topic:Astronomy|Astronomy]]
+* [[Topic:Astrobiology|Astrobiology]] - The study of the advent and evolution of biological systems in the universe.
+* [[Topic:Astrometry|Astrometry]] - The study of the position of objects in the sky and their changes of position. Defines the system of coordinates used and the kinematics of objects in our galaxy.
+* [[Topic:Astrophysics|Astrophysics]] - The study of physics of the universe, including the physical properties (luminosity, density, temperature, chemical composition) of astronomical objects.
+* [[Topic:Cosmology|Cosmology]] - The study of the origin of the universe and its evolution. The study of cosmology is theoretical astrophysics at its largest scale.
+* [[Topic:Galactic astronomy|Galactic astronomy]] - The study of the structure and components of our galaxy and of other galaxies.
+* [[Topic:Extragalactic astronomy|Extragalactic astronomy]] - The study of objects (mainly galaxies) outside our galaxy.
+* [[Topic:Stellar astronomy|Stellar astronomy]] - The study of the stars.
+* [[Topic:Planetary sciences|Planetary sciences]] - the study of the planets of the Solar System.
+* [[Topic:Archaeoastronomy|Archaeoastronomy]]
+* [[Topic:Astrochemistry|Astrochemistry]]
+* [[Topic:Astrosociobiology|Astrosociobiology]]
+* [[Topic:Astrophilosophy|Astrophilosophy]]
+* [[Topic:Astromedicine|Astromedicine]]
+* [[Topic:Astronautics|Astronautics]]
 ==Courses==