ASTRON 001 - ELEMENTARYASTRONOMY

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    Description
    This course is a general introduction and overview of Astronomy and covers many topics including constellations, seasons, history of Astronomy, the electromagnetic spectrum, telescopes, the Earth and other planets of our solar system, the Sun, binary stars, the Milky Way Galaxy, properties of galaxies and the Big Bang Theory. Students are kept abreast of current developments in the field.