ASTR 406
Galaxies and the Universe

Credit: 3 hours.


Nature of the Milky Way galaxy: stellar statistics and distributions, stellar populations, spiral structure, the nucleus and halo. Nature of ordinary galaxies; those in our Local Group, structure of voids and superclusters. Nature of peculiar objects: Seyfert galaxies, starburst galaxies, and quasars. Elementary aspects of physical cosmology. Prerequisite: ASTR 100 or ASTR 121 and ASTR 122 or ASTR 210; and PHYS 211 and PHYS 212