Where to learn about Galaxies and Cosmology?

By Anusha
Where to learn about Galaxies and Cosmology?

California Institute of Technology (Caltech) is offering an online course called "Galaxies and Cosmology". The 9 weeks course begins from 13th January 2014. You can earn a verified certificate for this course.

 

About the Course:

This class is an introduction to the modern extragalactic astronomy and cosmology, i.e., the part of astrophysics that deals with the structure and evolution of the universe as a whole, and its major constituents: dark matter, dark energy, galaxies, quasars, large-scale structure, and intergalactic gas. It will cover the subjects including: relativistic cosmological models and their parameters, extragalactic distance scale, cosmological tests, composition of the universe, dark matter, and dark energy; the hot big bang, cosmic nucleosynthesis, recombination, and cosmic microwave background; formation and evolution of structure in the universe; galaxy clusters, large-scale structure and its evolution; galaxies, their properties and fundamental correlations; formation and evolution of galaxies; star formation history of the universe; quasars and other active galactic nuclei, and their evolution; structure and evolution of the intergalactic medium; diffuse extragalactic backgrounds; the first stars, galaxies, and the reionization era.

S. George Djorgovski will be the course instructor. The course will have a workload of 6-9 hours of work / week. It will be taught in English and the subtitles will be available in English.

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