The triumphant return of CosmoAcademy!

My SUPERnova t-shirt shows how prepared I am for the 2014 season of online classes at CosmoAcademy. [The shirt is from Threadless, photo is courtesy of moi]

• About CosmoAcademy
• Our class offerings

The first class is Introduction to Dark Matter, which I will be teaching myself starting in two weeks:

Roughly eighty percent of all the mass in the Universe is made of dark matter – a mysterious invisible substance responsible for the structure of galaxies. But how do we know that? In this course, we’ll examine the evidence in favor of dark matter’s existence, from the rotation of galaxies to the radiation left over from the infancy of the cosmos. [Read more...]

Enroll today!

In coming months, you might also be interested in classes on space image processing taught by the Planetary Society’s ninja-in-residence, Emily Lakdawalla, and another on astrobiology — life elsewhere in the cosmos — from Nicole “The Noisy Astronomer” Gugliucci. And there’s even more to come, so stay tuned for further announcements!