# Astronomy (ASTR) courses

Shasta College · 2026-2027 Catalog · 2 courses

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"Offered" lists sections in this catalog year's class schedules: Fall 2026.

### ASTR-2 — Stellar Astronomy

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 54 lecture total (when offered in the distance education format, hours will total 162)
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 2 sections (/c/shasta-college/schedule/fall-2026/astr.md)

This course is a survey course designed to introduce the science of astronomy concentrating on celestial bodies and phenomena beyond the solar system. This course covers aspects of the history of astronomy, light, telescopes, prominent scientists, the sun, stars, stellar evolution, galaxies, cosmology, gravity wave astronomy, and the possibility of other life forms in the Universe. This course may be offered in a distance education format.

### ASTR-3 — Astronomy: the Solar System

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 54 lecture total (when offered in the distance education format, hours will total 162)
- **Formerly:** ASTR 1
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 3 sections (/c/shasta-college/schedule/fall-2026/astr.md)

This is a survey course designed to introduce the science of astronomy with an emphasis on the solar system. This course covers aspects of archaeoastronomy, telescope optics, prominent scientists, the sun, planets and their moons, asteroids, comets, solar system exploration, and extrasolar planets. This course may be offered in a distance education format.