Free Online Astronomy Courses

Get free Astron­o­my cours­es online from the world’s lead­ing uni­ver­si­ties.  You can down­load these audio & video cours­es straight to your com­put­er or mp3 play­er. For more online cours­es, vis­it our com­plete col­lec­tion, 1,700 Free Online Cours­es from Top Uni­ver­si­ties.

• Astro­bi­ol­o­gy and Space Explo­ration — Free iTunes Video — Free Online Video — Lynn Roth­schild, Stan­ford
• Explor­ing Black Holes: Gen­er­al Rel­a­tiv­i­ty & Astro­physics — Free Online Video — Course Info — Edmund Bertschinger, MIT
• From Chem­istry to Life — Web Video — Dim­i­tar D. Sas­selov, World Sci­ence U/Harvard
• Fron­tiers and Con­tro­ver­sies in Astro­physics - Free Online Video — Free iTunes Audio — Free iTunes Video — Course Mate­ri­als — Charles Bai­lyn, Yale
• Hunt­ing for Life in the Uni­verse — Free Online Video — James Bul­lock, UC Irvine
• Intro­duc­tion to Astro­physics — Free Online Audio — Joshua Bloom, UC Berke­ley
• Intro­duc­tion to Cos­mol­o­gy — Free Online Video - James Bul­lock, UC Irvine
• Intro­duc­tion to Gen­er­al Astron­o­my — Free Online Audio — Alex Fil­ip­penko, UC Berke­ley
• Intro­duc­tion to Gen­er­al Astron­o­my — Free Online Audio —  Joshua Bloom, UC Berke­ley
• Intro­duc­tion Plan­e­tary Sci­ence and Astron­o­my — Free Online Video — Bruce Betts, Plan­e­tary Soci­ety
• Intro­duc­tion to Solar Sys­tem Astron­o­my - Free iTunes Video — Richard Pogge, Ohio State
• Stars, Galax­ies and the Uni­verse — Free iTunes Audio — Richard Pogge, Ohio State
• Life in the Uni­verse — Free Online Audio — Richard Pogge, Ohio State
• Sur­vey of Astron­o­my — Free Online Video — Becky Bak­er, Mis­souri State
• The Accel­er­at­ing Uni­verse — Free Online Video — Adam Riess, Johns Hopkins/World Sci­ence U
• The Plan­ets (Christ­mas Lec­tures for Kids) — Free Online Lec­tures — Carl Sagan, Roy­al Insti­tu­tion

For a com­plete list of online cours­es, please vis­it our com­plete col­lec­tion, 1,700 Free Online Cours­es from Top Uni­ver­si­ties.

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