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 planets2. 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. |
Observatories and Telescopes7. The Very Large Telescope (VLT) of ESO. 8. The Hubble Space Telescope (HST). 9. The Infrared Space Telescope (Spitzer). Galaxies and black holes10. Galaxies: ellipticals, spirals and mergers of galaxies. 11. Black Holes (BH): end of stellar life, BH formation, BH mass measurments. 12. Gravitational Lensing. |