Arny: Explorations-An Introduction to Astronomy, 4th edition, is built on the foundation of its well known writing style, accuracy, and emphasis on current information. This new edition continues to offer the most complete technology/new media support package available. That technology/new media package includes: 23 Interactives including 17 NEW and 6 originals converted from Java to Flash(located on the text website and Digital Content Manager CD); Online Learning Center (that allows instructors to take their course to the web if they choose); and Starry Night Planetarium Software (packaged free with each new text).
Explorations: An Introduction to Astronomy, 4e
Preface
Preview: The Cosmic Landscape
Part 1 The Night Sky
1 History of Astronomy
Essay 1 Backyard Astronomy
Part 2 Atoms, Forces, Light, and How We Learn About the Universe
2 Gravity and Motion
3 Light and Atoms
4 Telescopes
Part 3 The Earth and Moon
5 The Earth
Essay 2 Keeping Time
6 The Moon
Part 4 The Solar System
7 Survey of the Solar System
8 The Terrestrial Planets
9 The Outer Planets
10 Meteors, Asteroids, and Comets
Part 5 Stars
11 The Sun, Our Star
12 Measuring the Properties of Stars
13 Stellar Evolution
14 Stellar Remnants: White Dwarfs, Neutron Stars, and Black Holes
Part 6 The Milky Way and Other Galaxies
15 The Milky Way Galaxy
16 Galaxies
17 Cosmology
Essay 3 Life in the Universe
Answers to "Test Yourself"
Appendix
Glossary
Index
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