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Thank you We sneak Welcome to astronomy your friend's a

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truck I will Since mankind's humble beginnings we have always

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asked ourselves the big question Who are we What are

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we doing here What's the meaning of life and why's

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that willie mammoth chasing me Well if you put yourself

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in early man shoes or sandals or strips of tree

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bark or whatever they were putting on their feet back

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in those days a nike swoosh on it carlos the

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world had to be a scary confusing place that endless

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dark sky above tiny pinpricks of light everywhere objects freaking

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by overhead a big ball of heat that comes and

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goes as it pleases every roughly twenty four hours Well

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for millions ofyears humans gazed upward and wonder But it

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wasn't until a few hundred years ago that we actually

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started making some headway in the quest to understand it

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all Renaissance wasn't just about pretty paintings on ceilings and

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wild haired composers smell well There were some awfully brilliant

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minded fingers and scientists whose sprouted up during this time

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including our first serious astronomer These guys were the first

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to take brave stands that hey maybe the earth isn't

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the center of the universe of course we all know

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today actual center of the universe is kanye west As

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technology has progressed we've been able to do things that

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would have been unthinkable to astronomy forefathers trip to the

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moon land rovers international space station movie gravity which of

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these would have blown their minds And that was all

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cg i Well the breath of everything covered by astronomy

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is nearly as fast as space itself but basically it's

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anything that has something to do with mankind's place in

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the great limitless expanse of space It includes investigating the

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origins of our universe physical ext separation of the final

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frontier observation of astronomical objects from afar with the use

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of high tech equipment and the attempt to draw conclusions

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from our data that helps solidify our understanding of how

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all the pieces fit together Well ever since our species

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became a bunch of star nerds you've discovered some fascinating

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stuff like the fact that a handful of our planets

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are just big gaseous flops way don't mean congressman and

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that everything on earth including ourselves is made from what

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used to be bits of stars and how easy it

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is to fall asleep During a planetary in presentation and

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wake up guys sexually But what are we specifically going

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tto learn in this course man you should do well

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in astronomy If you're this into the specifics we'll start

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with local Well we'll delve into the secrets hidden in

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our own solar system how it came to exist what

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makes a planet a planet and not a mere asteroid

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what materials different planets are composed of and why and

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whether or not the moon is really made of cheese

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sponsored by kraft it's been up there for billions of

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years and hasn't gotten green and moldy so well yes

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next we'll expand outwards and explore the stars in the

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great beyond we'll get into spectroscopy which is fortunately not

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something involving a camera being shoved up in orifice go

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there happens when you're fifty it's not pretty how stars

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you're named in organized and where our galaxy it's into

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the grand scheme of things then we'll put it back

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to earth of it and cover all those crazy high

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powered telescopes and other technological devices how they were invented

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how they were and why they should under no circumstances

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be used to fry Ants We'll examine that glorious intersection

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between astronomy and math please The expression on your face

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is thanks enough but without math we wouldn't be able

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to determine how heavy astronomical objects are how far away

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they are from each other How old our universes and

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other fun watercooler topics in that vein finally last some

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of the questions that haven't been answered yet What mysteries

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are astronomers still trying to wrap their oversized brains around

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what lies beyond our universe is e t out there

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somewhere If so is he now trying to ext that

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was that while you may never strap on a space

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suit hitch a ride on a shuttle personally great unknown

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is something that interests all of us in the pursuit

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of knowledge Within the realm of astronomy is one we

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can all get behind because every galaxy every star every

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planet holds mysteries just waiting to be uncovered except fluto

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Ever since he lost his planet status he's just been 00:04:11.98 --> [endTime] a little guarded We understand Okay okay

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