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    1. Background : lots of pretty pictures
      1. Radiation
      2. Star description
      3. Stellar structure and nuclear physics
      4. Galaxies and quasars
    2. Now Cosmology once over lightly
      1. The size of the Universe
      2. Introduction to Cosmology,
    3. We need to do things properly
      1. General Relativity
      2. Curved spaces
    4. which lets us solve the real problems
      1. Cosmic Kinematics: the FRW metric
      2. Cosmic Dynamics: the Friedmann equations
      3. Cosmic Models: Solutions of the Friedmann equations
      4. Dark Matter
      5. Microwave Background
      6. Nucleosynthesis
      7. Dark Energy
      8. Inflation
      9. Structure Formation
      10. Open problems and beyond