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You may be interested in an Astrophysics course. I took one in college taught by an Astronomy professor and was surprised most of the content was focused on wha
by opportune 3y ago
You may be interested in an Astrophysics course. I took one in college taught by an Astronomy professor and was surprised most of the content was focused on what we could determine about stars, galaxies and such based on what we could measure from them. In retrospect that seems obvious but I guess I had assumed the content would be like really heavy theories of stellar formation or gravity or something.
In my course we basically progressed from the traditional OG methods of measurement to increasingly sophisticated methods. It’s amazing how much you can learn about stars and galaxies just from combining models of black body radiation, spectral lines, and red shift with the wavelengths of the light they emit.