1. PHYS 110 Introductory Astronomy Instructor: Dr. Richard Bowman

2. A STRONOMY I N T HE N EWS Moon and Mars passed near each other in our sky (5/31) Auroras seen as far south as Nashville, TN, USA (5/15) Source: Larry Koehn

3. M ORE A STRONOMY I N T HE N EWS First photo of a planet orbiting another star (other than the Sun) is made public. R. Neuhäuser, et al, reported on March 31 the direct imaging of a 2-M(Jup.) exoplanet orbiting the K7 star GQ Lup (0.7 M(Sun)). Planet is 103 AU from star and orbits once every 1200 years!

4. M ORE A STRONOMY I N T HE N EWS Cassini-Huygens spacecraft arrived at Saturn for a four- year observational mission. (1/05) Video Source: European Space Agency

5. C OURSE M ISSION The student will be introduced to: what we know, what we guess and what we haven’t the vaguest idea about with regard to our physical universe.

6. L ET ’ S E NJOY T HE J OURNEY T OGETHER !