Introduction to the course (part II)
3 Março 2020, 13:00 • Israel Matute
- Continued with the examples of the role of Astrophysics in modern times especially focusing on the great advances that have occurred over the last 100 years.
- Several examples are provided (our own Sun, the stellar remnant, galaxy evolution and cosmology) that exemplify the scale and range of quantities measured in Astrophysical research.
- I especially stressed the importance for the student to understand the scale and magnitudes in the universe as a fundamental starting point of the course.
- Finally, I discussed what information and in which form the astrophysics use to get a better understating of the universe: the messengers.
The lecture finished with a list and description of the most common tools used by astronomers to study the Universe.