(Ebook) Astronomy 2nd Edition by Christopher Gordon De Pree, Alan Axelrod ISBN 9781592570034 1592570038

(Ebook) Astronomy 2nd Edition by Christopher Gordon De Pree, Alan Axelrod ISBN 9781592570034 1592570038

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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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