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Introductory Astronomy

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Basic Astronomy

1. Thinking Like an Astronomer
2. Patterns in the Sky
3. Motion of Astronomical Bodies
4. Gravity and Orbits
5. Light
6. Tools of an Astronomer

Solar System Astronomy

7. The Formation of Planetary Systems
8. The Terrestrial Planets and Earth’s Moon
9. Atmospheres of the Terrestrial Planets
10. Worlds of Gas and Liquid – The Giant Planets
11. Planetary Moons and Rings
12. Dwarf Planets and Small Solar System Bodies

Stars

13. Taking Measure of the Stars
14. The Sun
15. Star Formation & the ISM
16. Evolution of Low-mass Stars
17. Evolution of High-mass Stars

The Universe

18. Relativity & Black Holes
19. Galaxies
20. Milky Way
21. The Expanding Universe
22. Cosmology
23. Large-scale Structure

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Colab

Repository
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Milky Way

Contents

20.1. Mass of the Milky Way (inside the Sun’s orbit)
20.2. Mass of the Milky Way’s Central Black Hole

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By Billy Quarles

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