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This course is designed to be enriching for everyone, regardless of scientific background or mathematical ability. Virtually all you will need to enjoy and benefit from it are curiosity, common sense, and "an open mind for the occasional quantum…

Evidence for the birth of the universe is raining down on you. It's called the cosmic microwave background, and it's had quite a journey. Born in the stupendous annihilation of matter and antimatter seconds after the big bang, trapped in the…

De wonderen van ons zonnestelsel onthult het ons omringende zonnestelsel zoals je het nog nooit hebt gezien. Van de enorme ijsfonteinen op Enceladus tot de vloeibare methaanzeeën van Titan en van wervelstormen die twee keer zo groot zijn als de…

Benjamin Schumacher's oral delivery of the subject material leaves much to be desired (even by Teaching Company course standards). His stammering and cluttering (tachyphemia) makes his lecture hard to follow. Often he repeats his first word two or…

 is a nontechnical description of where that picture stands today. In 96 richly illustrated half-hour lectures, you survey the main concepts, methods, and discoveries in astronomy—in depth—from the constellations drawn by the ancients, to the latest…

Gravity is one of the most inexplicable forces of nature, controlling everything, from the expansion of the Universe to the ebb and flow of ocean tides. The search for the laws of motion and gravitation began more than two thousand years ago, a quest…