Open Yale: Frontiers and Controversies in Astrophysics (ASTR 160)

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

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