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ISBN 10: 1592570038
ISBN 13: 9781592570034
Author: Christopher Gordon De Pree, Alan Axelrod
(Ebook) Astronomy 2nd Edition Table of contents:
Part 1 Finding Our Place in Space
Chapter 1 Naked Sky, Naked Eye: Finding Your Way in the Dark
Sun Days
Flat Earth, Big Bowl
Who Cares?
Chapter 2 Ancient Evenings: The First Watchers
A Dragon Eats the Sun: Ancient Chinese Astronomy
Babylon Revisited
Egypt Looks
Stonehenge and the New World
Grecian Formula
Chapter 3 The Unexplained Motions of the Heavens
Time on Our Hands
The Sun Goes Dark, the Moon Becomes Blood
Aristotle Lays Down the Law
Ptolemy’s Picture
Night Falls
Chapter 4 Astronomy Reborn: 1543–1687
Arabian Nights
Heresy of a Polish Priest
The Man with the Golden Nose
Kepler Makes Sense of It
Galileo’s Eye
Holding It All Together
Part 2 Now You See It (Now You Don’t)
Chapter 5 The Art of Collecting Light (with a Telescope)
Slice of Light
Buckets of Light
Size Matters
Twinkle, Twinkle
Chapter 6 You and Your Telescope
Do I Really Need a Telescope?
Science Aside, What Will It Cost?
Decisions, Decisions
The Go-To Revolution
I’ve Bought My Telescope, Now What?
Learning to See
Chapter 7 Over the Rainbow
Making Waves
Full Spectrum
Heavenly Scoop
Chapter 8 Seeing in the Dark
Dark Doesn’t Mean You Can’t See
What Radio Astronomers “See”
You Can Do This, Too!
The Rest of the Spectrum
Chapter 9 Space Race: From Sputnik to the International Space Station
This Really Is Rocket Science
Early Human Missions
Satellites and Probes
JFK’s Challenge
Planetary Probes
Space Shuttles and Space Stations
International Space Station: The Latest
Part 3 A Walk Around the Block
Chapter 10 The Moon: Our Closest Neighbor
What If We Had No Moon?
Lunar Looking
Green Cheese?
Chapter 11 Solar System Home Movie
Solar System History
From Contraction to Condensation
Whipping Up the Recipe
Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust
Chapter 12 Solar System Family Snapshot
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: Let's Take a Stroll
The Inner and Outer Circles
Serving Up the Leftovers
Anatomy of a Comet
Catch a Falling Star
Chapter 13 So Close and Yet So Far: The Inner Planets
The Terrestrial Roster
Mercury: The Moon’s Twin
Forecast for Venus: “Hot, Overcast, and Dense”
The Earth: Just Right
Mars: “That Looks Like New Mexico!”
Where to Next?
Chapter 14 Great Balls of Gas! The Outer Planets
The Jovian Line-Up
Rotation: A New Twist
Stormy Weather
Saturnine Atmosphere
The Atmospheres of Uranus and Neptune
Inside the Jovians
The Jovian Magnetospheres
Chapter 15 The Far End of the Block
Lord of the Rings
On the Shoulders of Giants
Faraway Moons
Pluto Found
Part 4 To the Stars
Chapter 16 Our Star
The Solar Furnace
The Solar Atmosphere
Fun in the Sun
At the Core
Chapter 17 Of Giants and Dwarfs: Stepping Out into the Stars
Stellar Pigeonholes
From Giants to Dwarfs: Sorting the Stars by Size
Sizing Them Up
The Parallax Principle
Do Stars Move?
How Bright Is Bright?
How Hot Is Hot?
Making the Main Sequence
Chapter 18 Stellar Careers
A Star Evolves
Stellar Nursing Homes
The Life and Death of a High-Mass Star
Supernova: So Long, See You in the Next Star
Neutron Stars
I Can’t Stop!
Chapter 19 Black Holes: One-Way Tickets to Eternity
Is There No End to This Pressure?
Relativity
Thought Experiments
Black-Hole Evidence
Chapter 20 Stellar Nurseries
An Interstellar Atlas
Star Light, Star Bright
The Interstellar Medium: One Big Fuel Tank
Multiple Births
In the Delivery Room
Part 5 Way Out of This World
Chapter 21 The Milky Way: Much More Than a Candy Bar
Where Is the Center and Where Are We?
Home Sweet Galaxy
Measuring the Milky Way
Milky Way Portrait
Dark Matters
Chapter 22 A Galaxy of Galaxies
Sorting Out the Galaxies
Galactic Embrace
How to “Weigh” a Galaxy
Let’s Get Organized
Where Does It All Go?
Chapter 23 Moving Out of Town
A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far, Far Away …
Quasars: Looks Can Be Deceiving
Quasars and the Evolution of Galaxies
A Piece of the Action
Where It All Starts
Part 6 The Big Questions
Chapter 24 Table for One?
What Do You Mean by “Alone”?
The Odds for Life on Mars
Hello! Is Anybody Out There?
A Closer Look at the Equation
Where Are the Little Green Men?
Chapter 25 What About the Big Bang?
The Work of the Cosmologist
I’ll Give You Two Clues
Same Old Same Old
So What Was the Big Bang?
Chapter 26 (How) Will It End?
What the Redshift Means
What Does It All Mean?
We Have a Problem
Coming Full Circle
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