21St Century Astronomy 3E : Stars and Galaxies
ISBN: 9780393932850 | 0393932850
Edition: 3rdFormat: Textbook Paperback
Publisher: W W NORTON
Pub. Date: 1/17/2010
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| Introduction to Astronomy | |
| Why Learn Astronomy? | |
| Patterns in the Sky-Motions of Earth | |
| Gravity and Orbits-A Celestial Ballet | |
| Light | |
| The Tools of the Astronomer | |
| The Solar System | |
| The Birth and Evolution of Planetary Systems | |
| The Terrestrial Planets and Earth's Moon | |
| Atmospheres of the Terrestrial Planets | ... MORE|
| Worlds of Gas and Liquid-The Giant Planets | |
| Gravity Is More Than Kepler's Laws | |
| Planetary Adornments-Moons and Rings | |
| Dwarf Planets and Small Solar System Bodies | |
| Stars and Stellar Evolution | |
| Taking the Measure Of Stars | |
| A Run-of-the-Mill G Type Star-Our Sun | |
| Star Formation and the Interstellar Medium | |
| Stars in the Slow Lane: Low-Mass Stellar Evolution | |
| Live Fast, Die Young: High Mass Stellar Evolution | |
| Galaxies, the Universe, and Cosmology | |
| Our Expanding Universe | |
| Galaxies | |
| The Milky Way-A Normal Spiral Galaxy | |
| Modern Cosmology | |
| Structure in the Universe | |
| Life | |
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