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9780495017899

Voyages Through the Universe, Media Update (with AceAstronomy™, CD-ROM, Virtual Astronomy Labs)

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  • ISBN13:

    9780495017899

  • ISBN10:

    0495017892

  • Edition: 3rd
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2005-03-11
  • Publisher: Cengage Learning

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Summary

VOYAGES THROUGH THE UNIVERSE provides students and professors with the ideal combination of authors and experience. It is written by an award-winning astronomy educator (Fraknoi) and two distinguished research scientists (Morrison at NASA and Wolff at NOAO). This author team combines the latest science with classroom-tested teaching strategies and a student-friendly approach. Through unique group activities and a focus on astronomy as a human endeavor, the authors engage and involve students, helping them both understand and enjoy astronomy. The Media Update features the latest research and most recent discoveries since the original publication of the third edition, including the first pictures from the Huygens landing on Titan, the latest results from the Mars Exploration Rovers, and an updated section about extra solar planets. Automatically packaged at no additional cost with every new copy of the text, AceAstronomy, Virtual Astronomy Labs, and TheSky? Planetarium Software CD-ROM, the Media Update provides the strongest package of interactive learning tools available for students of astronomy today.

Table of Contents

Preface for the Student
Preface for the Instructor
Prologue: Science and the Universe: A Brief Tour
Observing the Sky: The Birth of Astronomy
Orbits and Gravity
Earth, Moon, and Sky
Radiation and Spectra
Astronomical Instruments
Other Worlds: An Introduction to the Solar System
Earth as a Planet
Cratered Worlds: The Moon and Mercury
Earth-like Planets: Venus and Mars
The Giant Planets
Rings, Moons, and Pluto
Comets and Asteroids: Debris of the Solar System
Cosmic Samples and the Origin of the Solar System
The Sun: Our Star
The Sun: A Nuclear Powerhouse
Analyzing Starlight
The Stars: A Celestial Census
Celestial Distances
Between the Stars: Gas and Dust in Space
The Birth of Stars and the Search for Planets
Stars: From Adolescence to Old Age
The Death of Stars
Black Holes and Curved Spacetime
Interlude: Stellar Corpses in Action: Gamma-ray Bursts
The Milky Way Galaxy
Galaxies
Quasars and Active Galaxies
Mapping the Universe
The Big Bang
Astrobiology and the Search for Life Elsewhere
Astronomy on the World Wide Web
Sources of Astronomical Information
Glossary
Powers-of-Ten Notation
Units Used in Science
Some Useful Constants for Astronomy
Data for the Planets
Satellites of the Planets
Upcoming (Total) Eclipses
The Nearest Stars
The Brightest Stars
The Brightest Members of the Local Group
The Chemical Elements
The Constellations
The Messier Catalog of Nebulae and Star Clusters
Index
Star Maps
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