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Index
Preview The Cosmic Landscape
Chapter 1 The Cycles of the Sky
Chapter 2 The Rise of Astronomy
Essay 1 Backyard Astronomy
Chapter 3 Gravity and Motion
Chapter 4 Light and Atoms
Essay 2 Special and General Relativity
Chapter 5 Telescopes
Chapter 6 The Earth
Essay 3 Keeping Time
Chapter 7 The Moon
Chapter 8 Survey of Solar Systems
Chapter 9 The Terrestrial Planets
Chapter 10 The Outer Planets
Chapter 11 Meteors, Asteroids, and Comets
Chapter 12 The Sun, Our Star
Chapter 13 Measuring the Properties of Stars
Chapter 14 Stellar Evolution
Chapter 15 Stellar Remnants: White Dwarfs, Neutron Stars, and Black Holes
Chapter 16 The Milky Way Galaxy
Chapter 17 Galaxies
Chapter 18 Cosmology
Essay 4 Life in the Universe
Answers to Test Yourself
Appendix
Scientific Notation
Some Useful Formulas
Solving Distance, Velocity, Time (d, V, t) Problems
Glossary
Credits
Index
PREFACE
LOOKING UP ILLUSTRATIONS
The Earth, Our Home
The Moon
The Planets
The Sun
The Solar System
The Astronomical Unit
The Milky Way Galaxy
The Light-Year
Galaxy Clusters and the Universe
Gravity
Atoms and Other Forces
The Still-Unknown Universe
The Scientific Method
Projects
1.1 The Celestial Sphere
Constellations
Daily Motions of the Sun and Stars
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