GENS4001 Astronomy - The Stars and Their Environment

Table of Contents

Introduction

Trigonometric Parallax

Light Distance

Distances of Stars

Large Ground-based Telescopes

Space Telescopes

Proper Motion of Barnard's Star

Doppler Shift

Stellar Spectra

Proxima Centauri (closest star)

Cosmic Ray Showers

The Electromagnetic Spectrum

Motions of the Stars

Planck Functions

Arc Line Spectra

Stellar Colour in the Jewel Box

Stellar Absorption Lines

The Sun in H-alpha

Mass-Luminosity Relation for Stars

Hertsprung-Russell Diagram

Sun's Luminosity

Planetary Nebulae

Planetary Nebulae - Cat's Eye

Supernovae - the Crab

Globular Cluster - M10

Cepheids & Henrietta Leavitt

SN1987A from HST

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Lecture Notes provided by Dr Andre Phillips