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Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe, 5th Edition

By Eric Chaisson, Steve McMillan

ISBN-10: 0-13-187165-X

ISBN-13: 978-0-13-187165-6

Published by Addison-Wesley

Pub. Date: Feb 24, 2006

Format: Paper

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BRIEF CONTENTS

PART 1 FOUNDATIONS

Exploring the Heavens: Introduction

1 The Copernican Revolution: The Birth of Modern Science

2 Light and Matter: The Inner Workings of the Cosmos

3 Telescopes: The Tools of Astronomy

PART 2 OUR PLANETARY SYSTEM

4 The Solar System: Interplanetary Matter and the Birth of the Planets

5 Earth and Its Moon: Our Cosmic Backyard

6 The Terrestrial Planets: A Study in Contrasts

7 The Jovian Planets: Giants of the Solar System

8 Moons, Rings, and Pluto: Small Worlds Among Giants

PART 3 THE STARS

9 The Sun: Our Parent Star

10 Measuring the Stars: Giants, Dwarfs, and the Main Sequence

11 The Interstellar Medium: Star Formation in the Milky Way 12 Stellar Evolution: The Lives and Deaths of Stars

13 Neutron Stars and Black Holes: Strange States of Matter

PART 4 GALAXIES AND THE UNIVERSE

14 The Milky Way Galaxy: A Grand Design

15 Normal and Active Galaxies: Building Blocks of the Universe

16 Hubble’s Law and Dark Matter: The Large-Scale Structure of the Cosmos

17 Cosmology: The Big Bang and the Fate of the Universe

18 Life in the Universe: Are We Alone?

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