Syllabus

PRELIMINARY LEVEL

Our Universe

1. STELLAR PHYSICS

• Star formation
• Nuclear reactions inside stars
• Life cycle of stars
• Stellar classification
• Different types of stars
• HR diagram

2. STELLAR EVOLUTION

• Main sequence stars
• Heavy mass stars
• Black holes and neutron stars
• Chandrashekhar limit
• Gravitational waves

3. PLANETS AND GALAXIES

• Solar system
• Moons, Sun
• Gas Giants
• Types of Galaxies
• Dark Matter

INTERMEDIATE LEVEL

Space Technologies and Astronomy

1. OBSERVATORIES ACROSS THE GLOBE

• Biggest and first ever Observatories
• Radio Observatories
• Gravitational wave observatories

2. DIFFERENT TYPES OF TELESCOPES

• Earth based (Optical, Radio, etc)
• Space based (Hubble etc)
• Satellites for space observations
• Major discoveries using Telescopes
• CMBR observation

3. MAJOR SATELLITES AND ITS USES

• Communication
• Weather
• GPS
• Major satellites
• First ever Satellites

FINAL LEVEL

Space Agencies and People

1. MAJOR SPACE AGENCIES

• NASA (Origin and history, Astronauts, etc)
• ISRO (Origin and history, Astronauts, etc)
• JAXA (Origin and history, Astronauts, etc)
• ESA (Origin and history, Astronauts, etc)

2. ROCKETS USED AND ITS WORKING

• Saturn Series
• SLV Indian rockets
• PSLV and GSLV
• GSLV mark III
• Fuels used in rockets
• Materials used to build
• Rockets used for Apollo Missions

3. SPACE MISSIONS

• Apollo Missions
• Crewed and uncrewed missions
• Mission to Pluto, Jupiter, Mars and Saturn
• Major missions to study Sun
• Major failures in the history
  

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