| PART 1 ASTRONOMY AND THE UNIVERSE |
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1 CHARTING THE HEAVENS: The Foundations of Astronomy |
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2 THE COPERNICAN REVOLUTION: The Birth of Modern Science |
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3 RADIATION: Information from the Cosmos |
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4 SPECTROSCOPY: The Inner Workings of Atoms |
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5 TELESCOPES: The Tools of Astronomy |
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| PART 2 OUR PLANETARY SYSTEM |
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6 THE SOLAR SYSTEM: An Introduction to Comparative Planetology |
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7 EARTH: Our Home in Space |
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8 THE MOON AND MERCURY: Scorched and Battered Worlds |
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9 VENUS: Earth's Sister Planet |
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10 MARS: A Near Miss for Life? |
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11 JUPITER: Giant of the Solar System |
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12 SATURN: Spectacular Rings and Mysterious Moons |
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13 URANUS, NEPTUNE, AND PLUTO: The Outer Worlds of the Solar System |
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14 SOLAR SYSTEM DEBRIS: Keys to Our Origin |
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15 THE FORMATION OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM: The Birth of Our World |
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| PART 3 STARS AND STELLAR EVOLUTION |
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16 THE SUN: Our Parent Star |
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17 MEASURING THE STARS: Giants, Dwarfs, and the Main Sequence |
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18 THE INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM: Gas and Dust Among the Stars |
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19 STAR FORMATION: A Traumatic Birth |
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20 STELLAR EVOLUTION: From Middle Age to Death |
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21 STELLAR EXPLOSIONS: Novae, Supernovae, and the Formation of the Heavy Elements |
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22 NEUTRON STARS AND BLACK HOLES: Strange States of Matter |
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| PART 4 GALAXIES AND COSMOLOGY |
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23 THE MILKY WAY GALAXY: A Grand Design |
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24 NORMAL GALAXIES: The Large-Scale Structure of the Universe |
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25 ACTIVE GALAXIES AND QUASARS: Limits of the Observable Universe |
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26 COSMOLOGY: The Big Bang and the Fate of the Universe |
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27 THE EARLY UNIVERSE: Toward the Beginning of Time |
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28 LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE: Are We Alone? |
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