There's so much to learn about the solar system, this lesson will focus on giving you an important general overview of its components.

Earth’s position in this roughly disk-like arrangement provides the opportunity for life, as known to humankind, to arise. By the end of this lesson you will know why the Earth is positioned in that way and the sustainability of it.

The Milky Way is a huge collection of stars, dust and gas. It's called a spiral galaxy because if you could view it from the top or bottom, it would look like a spinning pinwheel. In this lesson we learn about the sun being a star in the Milky Way galaxy and the structure of the milky way.

In dark conditions away from city lights, thousands of stars are visible in the night sky. Early cultures around the world gazed at the stars in wonder. By the end of this lesson you will know what constellations are and how you can spot them.

Astrology and astronomy are two fields that have common roots; they both study the movement of celestial objects. By the end of this lesson you will be able to differentiate between the two.

One of the first challenges for early man was to name star groupings. In this lesson we look at the history that informed the naming of stars and how star charts serve as a professional tool for when Global Positioning System satellite infrastructure goes down.

Astronomers study stars and galaxies by analysing the visible light, radio waves and electromagnetic radiation they receive from them. In this lesson we look at the telescope as a modern observatory tool.

Now that you’ve had an introduction to telescopes. Let’s look at a type of optical instrument that uses a mirror to collect and reflect light to form an image and allows one to see faraway objects in the night sky up close.

This lesson is the end of the 3-part lesson on telescopes. We focus on radio telescopes which are larger as they create a picture of the sky in the form of radio waves.

In the previous lessons we focused on telescopes, the instrument that allows us to see celestial bodies in space. Now to conclude we look at the conditions suitable to view the sky.