Horizons: Exploring the Universe
ISBN: 9780495113584 | 0495113581
Edition: 10thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Brooks/Cole Publishing
Pub. Date: 1/11/2007
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With his best-selling astronomy textbook, HORIZONS, author Mike Seeds helps you understand your place in the universe-not just your location in space, but your role in the unfolding history of the physical universe. To achieve this goal, he focuses on two central questions: "What Are We?," which highlights your place as a planet dweller in an evolving universe, guiding you to better understand where we came from and how we formed, and "How Do We Know?," which provides insights into how the process of science can teach us more about what we are.... MORE
| The Sky | |
| The Scale of the Cosmos | |
| The Sky | |
| The Cycles of the Sky | |
| The Origin of Modern Astronomy | |
| Astronomical Tools | |
| The Stars | |
| Starlight and Atoms | |
| The Sun? | |
| Our Star | |
| The Family of Stars | |
| The Formation and Structure of Stars | |
| The De... MORE | |
| Neutron Stars and Black Holes | |
| The Universe Of Galaxies | |
| The Milky Way Galaxy | |
| Galaxies | |
| Galaxies with Active Nuclei | |
| Cosmology in the 21st Century | |
| The Solar System | |
| The Origin of the Solar System | |
| Comparative Planetology of the Terrestrial Planets | |
| Comparative Planetology of the Outer 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 | |
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