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Part I: EXPLORING THE SKY | |
1. The Scale of the Cosmos | |
2. The Sky | |
3. The Cycles of the Moon | |
4. The Origin of Modern Astronomy | |
5. Newton, Einstein, and Gravity | |
6. Light and Telescopes | |
Part II: THE STARS | |
7. Starlight and Atoms | |
8. The Sun-Our Star | |
9. The Family of Stars | |
10. The Interstellar Medium | |
11. The Formation of Stars | |
12. Stellar Evolution | |
13. The Deaths of Stars | |
14. Neutron Stars and Black Holes | |
Part III: THE UNIVERSE | |
15. The Milky Way Galaxy | |
16. Galaxies | |
17. Galaxies with Active Nuclei | |
18. Cosmology | |
Part IV: THE SOLAR SYSTEM | |
19. The Origin of the Solar System | |
20. Planet Earth | |
21. The Moon and Mercury: Airless Worlds | |
22. Venus and Mars | |
23. Jupiter and Saturn | |
24. Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto | |
25. Meteorites, Asteroids, and Comets | |
PART V: LIFE | |
26. Life on Other Worlds | |
Afterword | |
Appendix A: Units and Astronomical Data | |
Appendix B: Observing the Sky | |
Glossary | |
Answers to Even-Numbered Problems | |
Index |
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