- Science and Technology
- Introducing the themes of the course, and a first look at the science and technology we will study.
- Telescopes and Stars
- How telescopes work, how we use them to make images in different colours, and how we use those measurements to understand how stars work.
- Space and Black Holes
- Hunting for black holes, and why we need to get above the atmosphere to do it.
- Detectors and the First Galaxies
- Detectors, how they work, and how we use them to catch the light from the very first galaxies.
- Computers and Killer Rocks
- Why computers are crucial in astronomy, and how they are used to find rare objects.
- Spectroscopy and Dark Energy
- How to break up light into its component parts, how that allows us to do astrophysics, and why we believe the Universe is full of a mysterious dark energy.
