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Foundations of Astronomy
ISBN: 9780495387244 | 049538724X
Edition: 10thFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 11/7/2007
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With this newly revised tenth edition of FOUNDATIONS OF ASTRONOMY, author Mike Seeds' goal is to help you use astronomy to understand science--and use science to understand what we are. Fascinating and engaging, this text will help you answer two fundamental questions: What are we? How do we know? This edition addresses the newest developments and latest discoveries in the exciting study of astronomy, including new data on Jupiter's ring system; new observations of the shapes of stars; new evidence of dark energy, quasars, and galaxy collisions... MORE
| Exploring the Sky | |
| What Are We? How Do We Know? | |
| The Sky | |
| Cycles of the Moon | |
| The Origin of Modern Astronomy | |
| Gravity | |
| Light and Telescopes | |
| The Stars | |
| Atoms and Starlight | |
| The Sun | |
| The Family of Stars | |
| The Interstellar Medium | |
| The For... MORE | |
| Stellar Evolution | |
| The Deaths of Stars | |
| Neutron Stars and Black Holes | |
| The Universe | |
| The Milky Way Galaxy | |
| Galaxies | |
| Galaxies with Active Nuclei | |
| Cosmology in the 21st Century | |
| The Solar System | |
| The Origin of the Solar System | |
| Earth: The Standard of Comparative Planetology | |
| The Moon and Mercury: Comparing Airless Worlds | |
| Comparative Planetology of Venus and Mars | |
| Comparative Planetology of Jupiter and Saturn | |
| Uranus, Neptune, and the Dwarf Planets | |
| Meteorites, Asteroids, and Comets | |
| Life | |
| Life on Other Worlds | |
| Afterword | |
| Units and Astronomical Data | |
| Observing the Sky | |
| Glossary | |
| Answers to Even-Numbered Problems | |
| Index | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
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