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Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
This wide-ranging introductory astronomy course allowed learners to explore the night sky and discover how stars are born, live and die, using the constellation of Orion as a linking theme. It also explored galaxies and cosmology, as well as the Solar System and planets around other stars.
4 weeks, 3 hours per week
Dave Hall
University Secretary
The Open University
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Apply facts, concepts, principles, theories, classification systems and language used in astronomy.
- Develop the knowledge and understanding of the range of sizes, distances and motions of objects in the night sky.
- Develop the knowledge and understanding of the structure, evolution and the main processes operating in stars.
- Develop the knowledge and understanding of the properties of planets in our Solar System and exoplanetary systems.
- Demonstrate the knowledge and understanding of the history of the Universe.
Syllabus
- Observing and photographing the night sky
- Constellations and Orion in particular
- Star formation and stellar evolution
- Nuclear fusion in stars
- Supernovae, white dwarfs, neutron stars and black holes
- The Milky Way and other Galaxies
- The Big Bang and the evolution of the Universe
- Dark matter & dark energy
- The Solar System, especially asteroids and comets
- Planets around other stars
Issued on 29th January 2017
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