Sample Downloads
Here you can download some older presentations from some of our Units to get a feel for the course material. Each unit contains approximately 20 to 36 presentations written by professional astronomers.-
AST80005 - Watching the Moon: Time & Tide
(Exploring the Solar System)
AST80004 - Learning About Stars From Their Spectra
(Exploring Stars and the Milky Way)
AST80006 - Theories of Galaxy Formation: How the Universe
Got its Lumps
(Galaxies and Their Place in the Universe )
AST80003 - The Equivalence Principle: A Question of Mass
(Cosmology & the Large-scale Structure of the Universe)
AST80018 - Image Formation in the Eye and the Telescope
(Professional Tools for Astronomical Observation)
AST80008 - The Ionian Philosophers
(History of Astronomy)
AST80002 - Making a Colour Image
(Astrophotography & CCD Imaging)
AST80017 - Costs, Risks, and Benefits: Science and the
Citizen
(Studies in Space Exploration)
AST80016 - Pulsating Stars: Stars that Breathe
(Stellar Astrophysics)
AST80001 - Organic Molecules in Space
(Astrobiology & the Origins of Life)
AST80015 - Planet Formation: Disk Formation and Evolution
(Planetary Science)