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12.401 Beyond the Solar System

"Be ye doers of the word,
and not hearers only,
deceiving yourselves..." - (James, I, 22.)

Last offered Spring '98 by Slivan.

M44 color-magnitude diagram - ``final results'' of term-long class project
subject description in the on-line MIT Subject Listing
``A combination of conventional lectures and hands-on work with small telescopes and computers. Formation, evolution, and death of stars and galaxies. Origins of the chemical elements. Quasars and black holes. Radiation and gravitation. Relativity and cosmology. Physics of modern astronomical observations.''

Last modified 1998 Dec 12