Science in the Sky

What is Science
1.  Doing Science
a. Why Should We Do Science?
b. How Do We Do Science?
C. Pseudoscience
d. Astrology is NOT Astronomy
e. Astronomy

Celestial Sphere
2.  Star Patterns
a. Celestial Sphere
b. Positions on the Celestial Sphere
c. Constellations
d. Stellar Naming

3.  Diurnal Changes
a. Diurnal Changes
b. Celestial Poles
c. Locating the Celestial Poles
d. Earth’s Rotating Motion

4.  Annual Changes
a. The Sun’s Migration Through the Zoo
b. The Ecliptic
c. Earth’s Revolving Motion

5. Seasons
a. Seasons Are NOT Caused By
b. Seasons Are Caused By
c. Major Circles of Latitude
d. Extreme Seasons

6.  Solar Motion
a. Tracking the Sun’s Shadow
b. The Sun’s Motion on the Celestial Sphere
c. In the Tropics
d. Monumental Sun Tracking

7. Lunar Motion
a. Lunar Phases
b. Lunar Phases Are NOT Caused By
c. Lunar Phases Are Caused By
d. Predicting Lunar Phases
e. Eclipses

8. Timekeeping
a. Solar versus Sidereal Day
b. Time Zones
c. Lunar versus Sidereal Month
d. Tropical versus Sidereal Year
e. Calendars

Solar System
9. Planetary Motion
a. Retrograde Motion
b. Observations of the Planets
c. Aristotelian Cosmological Model
d. Deferents and Epicycles
e. Ptolemaic Cosmological Model

10. Renaissance Astronomy
a. Copernican Cosmological Model
b. Retrograde Motion in a Heliocentric Cosmology
c. Galileo’s Observations
d. Galileo’s Fate

11. Kepler’s Laws
a. Tychonic Cosmological Model
b. Kepler’s First Law
c. Kepler’s Second Law
d. Kepler’s Third Law
e. The Scientific Revolution

12. Newton’s Laws
a. Newton’s Law of Gravitation
b. Newton’s First Law
c. Newton’s Second Law
d. Newton’s Third Law
e. Kepler’s Modified Third Law

13. Light
a. The Nature of Light
b. Electromagnetic Spectrum
c. Blackbody Radiation
d. Spectroscopy
e. Doppler Effect

14. Earth
a. InterIor
b. Surface
c. Age
d. Atmosphere
e. Magnetosphere

15. Moon
a. Lunar Features
b. Surface Erosion
c. Formation
d. Tides

16. Planets
a. Solar System
b. Comparative Planetology
c. Terrestrial Planets
d. Jovian Planets
e. Dwarf Planets

Stars and Galaxies
17. Solar Systems
a. Solar System Formation
b. Condensation
c. Extrasolar Planets
d. Goldilocks Planets

18. Sun
a. Properties
b. Structure
c. Powering the Sun
d. Solar Cycle

19. Stellar Distances
a. Angular Sizes
b. Stellar Parallax
c. Inverse Square Law
d. Stellar Magnitudes
e. Light-Year

20. Stellar Properties
a. Powering the Stars
b. Spectral Type
c. Stellar Sizes
d. Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram
e. Spectroscopic Parallax

21. Stellar Life Cycles
a. Star Formation
b. Stellar Lifetimes
c. Death of Low-Mass Stars
d. Death of High-Mass Stars

22. Milky Way Galaxy
a. Discovery
b. Our Location
c. Galactic Structure
d. Dark Matter

23. Galaxies
a. The Great Debate
b. Classification
c. Formation
d. Evolution

24. Cosmology
a. Hubble Flow
b. The Beginning
c. Age of the Universe
d. The End

Glossary