• How Nuclei are Held Together

  • General Nuclear Properties

  • Nuclear Phenomenology

  • Shell Structure

  • Collective Structure

  • Statistical Structure

• How Nuclei Fall Apart

  • Radioactive Decay

  • Alpha Decay

  • Beta Decay

  • Gamma Decay

  • Fission

• How Nuclei React

  • Nuclear Reactions

  • Scattering

  • Direct Reactions

  • Resonant Reactions

  • Statistical Reactions

  • Astrophysical Reaction Rates

• What Nuclei Can Do

  • Nucleosynthesis

  • Experimental Techniques

  • Nuclear Applications

See the video lecture series on Youtube.

• Light from Space

  • Very brief overview of Astronomy

  • Light

  • Redshift

  • Spectra

• Telescopes

  • Ground-based telescopes

  • Space-based telescopes

  • Telescope optics

• The Early Universe

  • Cosmology

  • Inflation

  • The Big Bang

• Galaxies

  • Milky Way formation

  • Milky Way structure

  • Galactic distances

  • Galaxy taxonomy

  • Galaxies and dark matter

  • Galaxy evolution

  • Galaxy mergers

• Stars

  • Stellar energy transport

  • Stellar equilibrium

  • Stellar nuclear power

  • Starlight

  • Stellar spectra

  • The HR diagram

  • High-mass stellar evolution

  • Low-mass stellar evolution

  • Stellar remnants

  • Star formation

• Planets

  • Planet formation

  • The Solar System

  • Solar system origins

  • Solar system dating

  • The terrestrial planets

  • The Jovian planets

  • Exoplanets

• Life in the Universe

  • Habitability

  • Solar System Life

  • The Drake Equation

  • Extraterrestrial life

See a high school-level introduction to nuclear astrophysics on Youtube.  The slides are here.