
Lecture Description
Take a 360 degree virtual tour of our Solar System, with the help of Crash Course Astronomy host Phil Plait!
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Course Index
- Introduction to Astronomy
- Naked Eye Observations
- Cycles in the Sky
- Moon Phases
- Eclipses
- Telescopes
- The Gravity of the Situation
- Tides
- Introduction to the Solar System
- The Sun
- The Earth
- The Moon
- Mercury
- Venus
- Mars
- Jupiter
- Jupiter's Moons
- Saturn
- Uranus & Neptune
- Asteroids
- Comets
- The Oort Cloud
- Meteors
- Light
- Distances
- Stars
- Exoplanets
- Brown Dwarfs
- Low Mass Stars
- White Dwarfs & Planetary Nebulae
- High Mass Stars
- Neutron Stars
- Black Holes
- Binary and Multiple Stars
- Star Clusters
- Nebulae
- The Milky Way
- Galaxies, part 1
- Galaxies, part 2
- Gamma-Ray Bursts
- Dark Matter
- The Big Bang, Cosmology part 1
- Dark Energy, Cosmology part 2
- A Brief History of the Universe
- Deep Time
- Everything, The Universe...And Life
- Explore The Solar System:
Course Description
In this Crash Course series, marvel at the wonders of astronomy with your host for this intergalactic adventure, the Bad Astronomer himself -- Phil Plait. In just 40 short lessons, you will learn the basics of the oldest science known to humanity.
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