Having just finished an Online Astronomy course called Orion in the night Sky. I started another one, this time simply called Moons. "Orion" was stimulating and exciting: Moons is astonishing, amazing, fabulous and any other superlatives you can think of. It is, I am afraid,a little too much for me. I really need to do it all over again. There is just so much information to process. Astronomy is all very new to me. All I knew about Moons is what I learnt more than sixty years ago in School Geography class. I became interested in stars when I joined a U3A tour to Sutherland to see the SALT telescope. I meant to read up more about the subject, but only when I had become a bit bored after finishing a poetry course and having time to spare,did I look up other possible courses on the Internet and found these two on Futurelearn. These courses are run by the Open University and they are excellent. The material is well presented and easy to read and as for the illustrations... I can only say WOW. They comprise wonderful pictures from NASA taken on different space probes. These are quite spectacular!
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