Stars/Courses

The course objective is to provide students with information about stars. At the end of the course, a student should have a well-rounded knowledge of stars, astronomy, radiation, and observational and theoretical astronomy, each as they apply to stellar radiation sources in the sky especially at night.

The course is built upon the ongoing research performed by astronomers around the world and in the not so empty space above the Earth's atmosphere.

In line with the Wikiversity ideal of learning by doing are sixteen laboratory opportunities, an equal number of problem sets at several levels, and participatory lessons. To present a wide variety of concepts within stars, there are some forty-eight lectures which are also partly articles as references from the scholarly literature are included to challenge the student and open doors to further curiosity.

Within the stars/course are several others, including Solar astronomy and those you put together to learn by doing!

Prerequisites
A working knowledge of calculus and physics is beneficial. Most concepts presented require only an understanding of algebra. Additional learning resources are also provided through the course to increase a student's background knowledge.

Lectures

 * 1) A stars
 * 2) Barium stars
 * 3) Betelgeuse
 * 4) Binary stars
 * 5) Blue stars
 * 6) B stars
 * 7) Carbon stars or C stars
 * 8) CNO stars
 * 9) Cyan stars
 * 10) Degenerate stars or D stars
 * 11) Dwarf stars
 * 12) Electron stars
 * 13) Emission stars or E stars
 * 14) Flare stars
 * 15) F stars
 * 16) Galaxies
 * 17) Galactic evolution
 * 18) Gamma-ray stars
 * 19) Giant stars
 * 20) Green stars
 * 21) G stars
 * 22) CH stars or H stars
 * 23) Hypergiant stars
 * 24) Hypervelocity stars
 * 25) Infrared stars
 * 26) Population I, Population II, Population III stars or I stars
 * 27) J stars
 * 28) K stars
 * 29) L stars
 * 30) Main-sequence stars
 * 31) Milky Way
 * 32) M stars
 * 33) Neutrino stars
 * 34) Neutron stars
 * 35) Nova-like stars
 * 36) Novas
 * 37) N stars
 * 38) Orange stars
 * 39) O-type stars
 * 40) Primordial stars or P stars
 * 41) Q stars
 * 42) Quasars
 * 43) Radiative dynamos
 * 44) Red stars
 * 45) R stars
 * 46) Stellar sciences
 * 47) Sirius
 * 48) Solar systems
 * 49) Spiral galaxies
 * 50) S stars
 * 51) Star-forming regions
 * 52) Star fissions
 * 53) Stars
 * 54) Starspots
 * 55) Stellar active regions
 * 56) Stellar astronomy
 * 57) Stellar evolution
 * 58) Stellar surface fusion
 * 59) Subdwarf stars
 * 60) Subgiant stars
 * 61) Sun
 * 62) Supergiant stars
 * 63) Supernovas
 * 64) T stars
 * 65) U stars or Uranium stars
 * 66) Ultraviolet stars
 * 67) Variable stars
 * 68) Vega
 * 69) Violet stars
 * 70) V stars
 * 71) Wolf-Rayet stars or W stars
 * 72) X-ray classification of stars
 * 73) X-ray stars or X stars
 * 74) Yellow stars
 * 75) Y stars
 * 76) Z stars

Laboratories

 * 1) Analytical astronomy
 * 2) Astrognosy
 * 3) Cosmogony
 * 4) Electric orbits
 * 5) Electron beam heating
 * 6) Empirical radiation astronomy
 * 7) Galaxies
 * 8) Intergalactic medium
 * 9) Locating the Sun
 * 10) Magnetic field reversals
 * 11) Meteorites
 * 12) Neutrinos from the Sun
 * 13) Polar reversals
 * 14) Spectrum of Vega
 * 15) Standard candles
 * 16) Vertical precession
 * 17) X-ray classification of a star
 * 18) X-ray trigonometric parallax

Lessons

 * 1) First blue source in Boötes
 * 2) First cyan source in Caelum
 * 3) First gamma-ray source in Scutum
 * 4) First gamma-ray source in Triangulum Australe
 * 5) First green source in Tucana
 * 6) First infrared source in Crux
 * 7) First microwave source in Cepheus
 * 8) First neutron source in Volans
 * 9) First orange source in Cancer
 * 10) First positron source in Phoenix
 * 11) First radio source in Pisces
 * 12) First red source in Canis Major
 * 13) First submillimeter source in Carina
 * 14) First superluminal source in Indus
 * 15) First ultraviolet source in Sagittarius
 * 16) First violet source in Leo
 * 17) First X-ray source in Andromeda
 * 18) First X-ray source in Antlia
 * 19) First X-ray source in Apus
 * 20) First X-ray source in Aquarius
 * 21) First X-ray source in Centaurus
 * 22) First yellow source in Aquila
 * 23) Radio astronomy

Problem sets

 * 1) Angular momentum and energy
 * 2) Cosmic circuits
 * 3) Astronomy
 * 4) Column densities
 * 5) Energy phantoms
 * 6) Furlongs per fortnight
 * 7) Planck's equation
 * 8) Radiation astronomy
 * 9) Radiation dosage
 * 10) Radiation mathematics
 * 11) Spectrographs
 * 12) Star jumping
 * 13) Superluminals
 * 14) Synchrotron radiation
 * 15) Telescopes and cameras
 * 16) Unknown coordinate systems
 * 17) Unusual units
 * 18) Vectors and coordinates

Quizzes

 * 1) Analytical astronomy quiz
 * 2) A star quiz
 * 3) Betelgeuse quiz
 * 4) B star quiz
 * 5) C star quiz
 * 6) D star quiz
 * 7) Empirical astronomy quiz
 * 8) E star quiz
 * 9) F star quiz
 * 10) Flare star quiz
 * 11) Galaxy quiz
 * 12) Green star quiz
 * 13) G star quiz
 * 14) Milky Way quiz
 * 15) Infrared star quiz
 * 16) O star quiz
 * 17) Radiative dynamo quiz
 * 18) Solar system quiz
 * 19) Spiral galaxy quiz
 * 20) Star fission quiz
 * 21) Star-forming region quiz
 * 22) Star quiz
 * 23) Stellar active region quiz
 * 24) Stellar astronomy quiz
 * 25) Stellar science quiz
 * 26) Sun quiz
 * 27) Surface fusion quiz
 * 28) Vega quiz
 * 29) X-ray classification of stars quiz

Additional courses

 * 1) Astrochemistry
 * 2) Principles of radiation astronomy
 * 3) Radiation astronomy/X-rays/Course
 * 4) Solar astronomy