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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Time Line
Introduction: How Do We Know About the Stars?
1 Prehistory-1600: Stargazers to Scientists
Find Polaris
Ptolemy on a Plate
Make an Astrolabe
Get Ready to Star Watch
2 1600s: Telescopes and Gravity
The Power of Lenses
Make a Reflecting Telescope
Split White Light
3 1700S-1915: Unveiling the Stars
Make a 3-D Starscape
Milky Way on Edge
Handy Sky Distances
4 1900–1940: Space-Time Tricks, Island Universes, and the Biggest Bang
Warp Some T-Shirt Space-Time
A Toy with No Equal
Sweet, Twisted Space-Time
Expand a Balloon-iverse
5 1930s-1970s: Discovering the Invisible: Quasars, Pulsars, and Black Holes
Track Down Interference
Make a Radio Picture
Make a Pulsar
Make a Black Hole
6 1980s-2010s: Frothy Galaxies, Alien Planets, and Dark Energy
Soap Up Some Galaxy Clusters
Our Galactic Group in 3-D
Track Down Exoplanets
Afterword: What Will We Find Next?
Glossary
Resources
Astronomy Websites to Explore
Sky Watching and Star Chart Websites
Books for Further Reading
Index
Back Cover
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