Free Astronomy Courses

Free Astronomy Courses

Numerous completely free astronomy courses are available online, delivered in various languages by top UK and international universities. We list some of them below.

Why not sign up today, begin improving your astronomy knowledge and eventually receive an internationally-recognised certificate or qualification? All completely free.

NOTE: we do not deliver these courses, we simply list them below.

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Best Astronomy Books for Beginners – Simple, Practical Guides for Stargazing with Binoculars or a Small Telescope

FREE astronomy course available from:

• Royal Observatory Greenwich, UK
  
  
  • Teaching Primary Science: the Solar System and Beyond
    
    
    

• Open University, UK
  
  
  • The Big Bang
    
  • Comparing stars
  • The evolving Universe
  • Galaxies, stars and planets
  • Icy bodies: Europa and elsewhere
  • In the night sky: Orion
  • Jupiter and its moons
  • The Moon
  • Moons
  • An overview of active galaxies
  • The Sun
  • Telescopes and spectrographs
    
    
    
• University of Edinburgh, Scotland
  
  
  • Astrobiology and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
  • The Discovery of the Higgs Boson
  • The Science and Technology behind Astronomical Discovery
    
    
    
• edX by Harvard University and MIT, International
  
  
  • Exploring Exoplanets
  • The Violent Universe
  • Super-Earths And Life
  • Greatest Unsolved Mysteries of the Universe
  • and many more