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Preface |
xi |
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About the Author |
xix |
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CHAPTER 1 Discovering the Night Sky |
1 |
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CHAPTER 2 Gravitation and the Motion of the Planets |
27 |
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CHAPTER 3 Light and Telescopes |
49 |
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CHAPTER 4 Formation of the Solar System |
97 |
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CHAPTER 5 Exoplanets |
113 |
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CHAPTER 6 The Terrestrial Planets and Their Moons |
125 |
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CHAPTER 7 The Outer Planets and Their Moons |
191 |
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CHAPTER 8 Vagabonds of the Solar System |
233 |
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CHAPTER 9 The Sun: Our Extraordinary Ordinary Star |
267 |
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CHAPTER 10 Characterizing Stars |
293 |
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CHAPTER 11 The Lives of Stars from Birth Through Middle Age |
317 |
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CHAPTER 12 The Deaths and Remnants of Stars |
347 |
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CHAPTER 13 The Galaxies |
389 |
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CHAPTER 14 Cosmology |
443 |
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CHAPTER 15 Astrobiology |
469 |
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APPENDICES |
A- |
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Glossary |
G- |
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Answers to Computational Questions |
ANS- |
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Index |
I- |
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