About
This course focuses on three particularly interesting areas of astronomy that are advancing very rapidly: Extra-Solar Planets, Black Holes, and Dark Energy. Particular attention is paid to current projects that promise to improve our understanding significantly over the next few years. The course explores not just what is known, but what is currently not known, and how astronomers are going about trying to find out.
Course Homepage: [[http://oyc.yale.edu/astronomy/frontiers-and-controversies-in-astrophysics/]]
Course features at Open Yale courses page: *Frontiers and Controversies in Astrophysics *Syllabus *Class Sessions *Downloads *Survey
Updates: *Update 1 - The Kepler Mission *Update 2 - Do Black Holes Spin? *Update 3 - The “Dark Ages” and the Growth of Structure
Exams: *Midterm Exam 1 *Midterm Exam 1 Solutions *Midterm Exam 2 Solutions
Complete Yale video collection at Yale VideoLectures.NET
Videos

Lecture 19 - Mega and the End of the Universe
Nov 24, 2009
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Lecture 15 - Supermassive Black Holes
Nov 24, 2009
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Lecture 18 - Hubble's Law and the Big Bang (cont.)
Nov 24, 2009
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Lecture 14 - Pulsars
Nov 24, 2009
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Lecture 12 - Stellar Mass Black Holes
Nov 24, 2009
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Lecture 9 - Special and General Relativity
Nov 24, 2009
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Lecture 24 - The Multiverse and Theories of Everything
Nov 24, 2009
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Lecture 13 - Stellar Mass Black Holes (cont.)
Nov 24, 2009
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Lecture 11 - Special and General Relativity (cont.)
Nov 24, 2009
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Lecture 10 - Tests of Relativity
Nov 24, 2009
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Lecture 8 - Introduction to Black Holes
Nov 24, 2009
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Lecture 16 - Hubble's Law and the Big Bang
Nov 24, 2009
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Lecture 4 - Discovering Exoplanets: Hot Jupiters
Nov 24, 2009
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Lecture 1 - Introduction
Nov 24, 2009
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Lecture 17 - Hubble's Law and the Big Bang (cont.)
Nov 24, 2009
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Lecture 20 - Dark Matter
Nov 24, 2009
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Lecture 21 - Dark Energy and the Accelerating Universe and the Big Rip
Nov 24, 2009
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Lecture 5 - Planetary Transits
Nov 24, 2009
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Lecture 22 - Supernovae
Nov 24, 2009
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Lecture 2 - Planetary Orbits
Nov 24, 2009
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Lecture 6 - Microlensing, Astrometry and Other Methods
Nov 24, 2009
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Lecture 7 - Direct Imaging of Exoplanets
Nov 24, 2009
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Lecture 3 - Our Solar System and the Pluto Problem
Nov 24, 2009
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Lecture 23 - Other Constraints: The Cosmic Microwave Background
Nov 24, 2009
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