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LEARNING CURVE Winter/Spring 2010 Descriptive Astronomy Understanding the Vast Landscape of the Sky Learn about the variety of astronomical objects and the wealth of information that has been gathered about them. With one of Arizona’s most well-recognized astrophysicists as your guide, you’ll discover the ideas and techniques used to evaluate distant objects as you cover topics ranging from our solar system to stellar evolution; the gas between the stars, the galaxies, and cosmology. When: Wednesdays, Mar 31 – May 12, 1:30-3:30pm (No class Apr 14) Instructor: Helmut A. Abt received the first Ph.D. in astronomy from Caltech. He did most of the field work that led the selection of Kitt Peak as the national observatory. He has been an Astronomer at Kitt Peak National Observatory since it was started. In 1971-1999 he was Editor-in-Chief of the Astrophysical Journal, the world’s largest and premier journal for astronomical research. He has published 290 research papers on stellar rotation, duplicity, and evolution, and also on publication characteristics. He is also Adjunct Professor at Peking University and Nanjing Normal University. |
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