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Sect. I | The Nighttime Sky and Historical Astronomy | 1 |
Ch. 1 | The Essence of Astronomy | 3 |
Ch. 2 | Cycles and Seasons: Motions in the Sky | 17 |
Ch. 3 | The Renaissance and the Laws of Motion | 43 |
Ch. 4 | Light and Telescopes | 67 |
Astronomical Update: New Tools for an Old Science | 96 | |
Sect. II | The Solar System | 99 |
Ch. 5 | Overview of the Solar System and Planetary Science | 101 |
Ch. 6 | The Earth and Its Companion | 123 |
Ch. 7 | Other Terrestrials: Venus, Mars, and Mercury | 147 |
Ch. 8 | The Gas Giants and Pluto | 175 |
Ch. 9 | Space Debris | 205 |
Ch. 10 | Formation of the Solar System: Disks, Rings, and Moons | 229 |
Astronomical Update: Mission to Mars | 251 | |
Sect. III | The Stars | 253 |
Ch. 11 | The Sun | 255 |
Ch. 12 | Observations and Basic Properties of Stars | 277 |
Ch. 13 | Stellar Structure: What Makes a Star Run? | 303 |
Ch. 14 | Life Stories of Stars | 317 |
Ch. 15 | Stellar Remnants | 349 |
Astronomical Update: The Search for Planets and Failed Stars | 371 | |
Sect. IV | A Universe of Galaxies | 373 |
Ch. 16 | Structure and Organization of the Galaxy | 375 |
Ch. 17 | The Formation and Evolution | 399 |
Ch. 18 | Galaxies Upon Galaxies | 413 |
Ch. 19 | Universal Expansion and the Cosmic Background | 445 |
Ch. 20 | Peculiar Galaxies, Active Nuclei, and Quasars | 463 |
Ch. 21 | Cosmology: Past, Present, and Future of the Universe | 481 |
Astronomical Update: The Elusive Hubble Parameter | 502 | |
Sect. V | Life in the Universe | 505 |
Ch. 22 | The Chances of Companionship | 507 |
Astronomical Update: The Modern Search for Companionship | 522 | |
Appendix 1: Symbols Commonly Used in this Text | A1 | |
Appendix 2: Physical and Mathematical Constants | A1 | |
Appendix 3: The Elements and Their Abundances | A2 | |
Appendix 4: Temperature Scales | A3 | |
Appendix 5: Radiation Laws | A3 | |
Appendix 6: Major Optical Telescopes of the World | A6 | |
Appendix 7: Planetary and Satellite Data | A6 | |
Appendix 8: Stellar Data | A10 | |
Appendix 9: The Constellations | A12 | |
Appendix 10: Mathematical Treatment of Stellar Magnitudes | A14 | |
Appendix 11: Nuclear Reaction in Stars | A15 | |
Appendix 12: Detected Interstellar Molecules | A17 | |
Appendix 13: Clusters of Galaxies | A18 | |
Appendix 14: The Relativistic Doppler Effect | A19 | |
Appendix 15: The Messier Catalog | A20 | |
Glossary | G1 | |
Index | I1 |
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