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1. Request Access
2. I Need Help
3. Module Introduction
4. Basic Objects in the Universe
5. Scale of the Cosmos
6. The Constellations
7. Other Patterns
8. Module Introduction
9. The Study of Science
10. What Time Is It?
11. Ancient Observations
12. Contributions to Science
13. The Wanderers
14. Claudius Ptolemy
15. Astronomy and Astrology
16. The Birth of Modern Astronomy
17. Observations of Motion: Brahe, Kepler, and Galilei
18. Observations of the Heavens: Galileo
19. The Mathematical Finish: Newton
20. Project: Tracking the Phases of the Moon
21. Making an Astrolab
22. Tracking the Moon Observation Log Example
23. Tracking Moon Observation Log
24. Phases of the Moon
25. Module Introduction
26. Motions of Objects
27. Our Night Sky
28. The Sun and the Moon
29. Seasons and Seasonal Changes
30. The Moon in our Skies
31. Eclipses
32. Module Introduction
33. Looking at a rainbow, what do you see?
34. Thermal Radiation
35. The Electromagnetic Spectrum
36. Spectra
37. Moving Objects, Spectra, and the Doppler Effect
38. Module Introduction
39. The Telescope
40. Early Telescopes
41. Telescopic Observations
42. Telescope Optical Types
43. Telescope Mounts
44. Images from the Telescope
45. Space-Based Telescopes
46. Light Pollution
47. Space-based Telescope
48. Hubble Space Telescope
49. Module Introduction
50. Our Solar System
51. The Nebular Theory
52. What is a Planet?
53. The Nebular Theory: Other Important Evidence
54. The Nebular Theory: Proplyds
55. Systems and Extrasolar Planets
56. The Discovery of Extrasolar Planets
57. The Kepler Mission
58. What We Have Learned about Stellar Systems and Extrasolar Planets?
59. The Circumstellar Habitable Zone
60. Some Interesting Exoplanets
61. Extrasolar Planets
62. Module Introduction
63. What do you think?
64. Comparing Planets
65. Rocky Planets
66. Craters
67. Planet Mercury
68. Planet Venus
69. Planet Earth
70. Earth’s Moon
71. Planet Mars
72. Snow on Mars
73. A Martian Controversy
74. Martian Moons
75. Characteristics of the Solar System’s Rocky Planets
76. Module Introduction
77. What do you think?
78. Gas Giant Planets
79. Rings
80. Planet Jupiter
81. Jupiter’s Satellites
82. Planet Saturn
83. Saturn's Rings
84. Saturn’s Satellites
85. Planet Uranus
86. Planet Neptune
87. Gas Giant Planets and Select Satellites Overviews
88. Module Introduction
89. What do you think?
90. Minor Bodies
91. Asteroids
92. Brightest Asteroids Visible from Earth
93. Asteroid Classification
94. Meteoroids, Meteors, and Meteorites
95. Meteorites
96. The Impact of Meteorites
97. Comets
98. Comet Characteristics
99. Images of Comets
100. Comets in History
101. Scientific Advances
102. Halley’s Comet
103. A Comet Impacts a Planet
104. The Centaurs: Are they Asteroids or Comets?
105. Pluto
106. Eris
107. Trans-Neptunian objects, the Kuiper Belt, and the Oort Cloud
108. The Oort Cl