{"id":703,"date":"2020-06-01T15:50:30","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T15:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yc.yccd.edu\/stem\/?page_id=703"},"modified":"2023-03-27T21:22:31","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T21:22:31","slug":"astronomy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/yc.yccd.edu\/stem\/program\/physics\/astronomy\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Astronomy at Yuba College<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-704 size-full alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/yc.yccd.edu\/stem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/06\/sombrero_galaxy.jpg\" alt=\"The Sombrero Galaxy\" width=\"450\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yc.yccd.edu\/stem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/06\/sombrero_galaxy.jpg 450w, https:\/\/yc.yccd.edu\/stem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/06\/sombrero_galaxy-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/yc.yccd.edu\/stem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/06\/sombrero_galaxy-100x56.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yuba College offers introductory Astronomy Classes.\u00a0 Please check the school schedule for latest courses.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Sombrero Galaxy Astronomy is a natural science that is the study of celestial objects (such as moons, planets, stars, nebulae, and galaxies), the physics, chemistry, mathematics, and evolution of such objects, and phenomena that originate outside the atmosphere of Earth, including supernovae explosions, gamma ray bursts, and cosmic background radiation. A related but distinct subject, cosmology, is concerned with studying the universe as a whole.<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>Links<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/\">Astronomy Picture of the Day<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/chromoscope.net\/\">Chromoscope<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/yc.yccd.edu\/student\/successcenter\/\">College Success Center<\/a> (small group tutoring)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amnh.org\/our-research\/hayden-planetarium\/digital-universe\">Digital Universe<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/grin.hq.nasa.gov\/subject-space.html\">Great Images in NASA<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/hubblesite.org\">Hubble Telescope<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/joshworth.com\/dev\/pixelspace\/pixelspace_solarsystem.html\">If the Moon Were Only One Pixel<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ms.yccd.edu\/new-mesa.aspx\">MESA Program<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/\">NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sky-map.org\/\">Sky Map<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/\">Space.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stsci.edu\/portal\/\">Space Telescope Science Institute<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spitzer.caltech.edu\/\">Spitzer Space Telescope<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nikon.com\/about\/feelnikon\/universcale\/index.htm\">Universcale<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jump to: <a href=\"#top\">top of page<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/ms.yccd.edu\/home.aspx\">STEM Home<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/ms.yccd.edu\/faculty-staff.aspx\">STEM Staff<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomy at Yuba College Yuba College offers introductory Astronomy Classes.\u00a0 Please check the school schedule for latest courses. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The Sombrero Galaxy Astronomy is a natural science that is the study of celestial objects (such as moons, planets, stars, nebulae, and galaxies), the physics, chemistry, mathematics, and evolution of such objects, and phenomena that originate outside the atmosphere &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/yc.yccd.edu\/stem\/program\/physics\/astronomy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":997,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-layout-sidebar-content-sidebar.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"folder":[],"coauthors":[14],"class_list":["post-703","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Astronomy - STEM &amp; Social Sciences<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/yc.yccd.edu\/stem\/program\/physics\/astronomy\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Astronomy - STEM &amp; Social Sciences\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Astronomy at Yuba College Yuba College offers introductory Astronomy Classes.\u00a0 Please check the school schedule for latest courses. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The Sombrero Galaxy Astronomy is a natural science that is the study of celestial objects (such as moons, planets, stars, nebulae, and galaxies), the physics, chemistry, mathematics, and evolution of such objects, and phenomena that originate outside the atmosphere ... 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