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Preface | |
Looking Up Illustrations | |
The Cosmic Landscape | |
Our Planetary Neighborhood | |
Beyond the Solar System | |
Astronomical Numbers | |
Foundations of Astronomy | |
The Night Sky | |
The Year | |
The Time of Day | |
Lunar Cycles | |
Calendars | |
Geometry of the Earth, Moon, and Sun | |
Planets: The Wandering Stars | |
The Beginnings of Modern Astronomy | |
Observing the Sky | |
Probing Matter, Light, And Their Interaction | |
Astronomical Motion: Inertia, Mass, and Force | |
Force, Acceleration, and Interaction | |
The Universal Law of Gravity | |
Measuring a Body’s Mass Using Orbital Motion | |
Orbital and Escape Velocities | |
Tides | |
Conservation Laws | |
Light, Matter, and Energy | |
The Electromagnetic Spectrum | |
Thermal Radiation | |
Atomic Spectra: Identifying Atoms by Their Light | |
The Doppler Shift | |
Detecting Light | |
Collecting Light | |
Focusing Light | |
Telescope Resolution | |
The Earth’s Atmosphere and Space Observatories | |
Amateur Astronomy | |
The Solar System | |
The Structure of the Solar System | |
The Origin of the Solar System | |
Other Planetary Systems | |
The Earth as a Terrestrial Planet | |
Earth's Atmosphere and Hydrosphere | |
Our Moon | |
Mercury | |
Venus | |
Mars | |
Asteroids | |
Comparative Planetology | |
Jupiter and Saturn | |
Uranus and Neptune | |
Satellite Systems and Rings | |
Ice Worlds, Pluto, and Beyond | |
Comets | |
Impacts on Earth | |
Stars And Stellar Evolution | |
The Sun, Our Star | |
The Sun’s Source of Power | |
Solar Activity | |
Surveying the Stars | |
Special Relativity | |
Light and Distance | |
The Temperatures and Compositions of Stars | |
The Masses of Orbiting Stars | |
The Sizes of Stars | |
The H-R Diagram | |
Overview of Stellar Evolution | |
Star Formation | |
Main-Sequence Stars | |
Giant Stars | |
Variable Stars | |
Mass Loss and Death of Low-Mass Stars | |
Exploding White Dwarfs | |
Old Age and Death of Massive Stars | |
Neutron Stars | |
Black Holes | |
Star Clusters | |
Galaxies And The Universe | |
Discovering the Milky Way | |
Stars of the Milky Way | |
Gas and Dust in the Milky Way | |
Mass and Motions in the Milky Way | |
A Universe of Galaxies | |
Types of Galaxies | |
Galaxy Clustering | |
Active Galactic Nuclei | |
Dark Matter | |
Cosmology | |
The Edges of the Universe | |
The Beginnings of the Universe | |
The Fate of the Universe | |
Astrobiology | |
The Search for Life Elsewhere | |
Glossary | |
Answers to Test Yourself | |
Questions Credits | |
Index | |
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