Astronomy class


   Learn more about the solar system, galaxies and black holes.

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1. Introduction: electromagnetic waves, frequency, spectrum, velocity profiles, powers of ten.

Solar system and extra-solar planets


2. Missions to Mars: Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Mars Rovers, Mars Global Surveyor and 2001 Mars Odyssey.

3. Cassini-Huygens: visit Saturn, Titan and Enceladus.

4. Shoemaker Levy 9: collision of a comet with Jupiter.

5. Amateur astronomer images: comet McNaught, Lunar and Solar eclipses, planets... (courtesy M. Luraschi).


6. Exo-planets: planets outside our solar system.

7. The Very Large Telescope (VLT) of ESO.

8. The Hubble Space Telescope (HST).

Galaxies and black holes


9. Galaxies: ellipticals, spirals and mergers of galaxies.

10. Black Holes (BH): end of stellar life, BH formation, BH mass measurments.

11. Gravitational Lensing.



   Nicolas Cretton, Liceo di Lugano 2.