The public video lectures cover just the astronomy content from the Astronomy Notes textbook. The public lectures do not include the material that is for the astronomy class such as how to use the class Canvas, lecture outlines in the Student Guide, exam review documents, etc. Students in the Bakersfield College astronomy classes should use the astronomy class lecture videos posted in the class Canvas to get that class-specific content.
This video set covers extraterrestrial life. It includes detecting exoplanets, exoplanet systems characteristics, habitable zones, suitable host stars, bio-markers (biosignatures), the Drake Equation, communicating with extra-terrestrial intelligent life, and UFOs as space alien spacecraft. The first two videos are for the exoplanets page of the Solar System Fluff chapter (chapter 10) and the third video is for the Life Beyond the Earth chapter (chapter 17). The video lectures are grouped together in the Exoplanet SETI Public YouTube playlist. Here are the individual videos for extraterrestrial life:
Video 1: (for webpage #12 of Solar System Fluff chapter) This first video of the set focuses on the four main ways of finding exoplanets (Doppler technique, Transit technique, Microlensing technique, and Direct Imaging technique). First lecture for the Exoplanet page of the Solar System Fluff chapter of Astronomy Notes and first lecture of the Extraterrestrial Life set.
Video 2: (also for webpage #12 of Solar System Fluff chapter) This video looks at the properties of the exoplanet systems, how they are similar to our own solar system and how they are different. It also covers "hot Jupiters" and what they mean for our ideas of how planets form, particularly the implications for the Condensation model of planetary system formation. Second lecture for the Exoplanet page of the Solar System Fluff chapter of Astronomy Notes and second lecture of the Extraterrestrial Life set.
Video 3: (for webpages #2 to #6 of Life Beyond Earth chapter) This video covers the habitable zone concept, suitable stars for finding exoplanets inhabited by intelligent life, what bio-markers we would look for in the exoplanet's spectrum, the Drake Equation, communicating with extra-terrestrial intelligent life, and UFOs as space aliens. Lecture for chapter 17 of Astronomy Notes and third lecture of the Extraterrestrial Life set.
last updated: July 1, 2022