| Part 1: Finding Our Place in Space |
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1 Naked Sky, Naked Eye: Finding Your Way in the Dark Finding your way around the night sky. No telescope necessary. |
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2 Ancient Evenings: The First Watchers What the ancient astronomers saw, thought, and said. |
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3 The Unexplained Motions of the Heavens Puzzles of planetary motion: early thoughts on the subject. |
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4 Astronomy Reborn: 1543-1687 Everything (well, not really) you need to know about Copernicus, Tycho Brahe, Kepler, Galileo, and Newton. |
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| Part 2: Now You See It (Now You Don't) |
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5 The Art of Collecting Light (with a Telescope) Telescopes: what they see and how they work. |
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6 You and Your Telescope A guide to choosing and using binoculars and telescopes. |
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7 Over the Rainbow Electromagnetic radiation: what it is, how it travels, and what it does. |
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8 Seeing in the Dark Alternatives to visible-light astronomy: radio, infrared, ultraviolet, and high energy. |
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9 Space Race A brief history of space exploration. |
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| Part 3: A Walk Around the Block |
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10 The Moon: Our Closest Neighbor All about the earth's moon. |
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11 Solar System Home Movie How our solar system was born and developed. |
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12 Solar System Family Snapshot A tour through our solar system. |
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13 Meet the Terrestrials: The Inner Planets The lowdown on Mercury, Venus, and Mars. |
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14 By Jove!: The Outer Planets All about Uranus, Neptune, Jupiter, and Saturn. |
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15 The Far End of the Block The moons and rings of the jovian planets, and the story of Pluto. |
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| Part 4: To the Stars |
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16 Our Star We explore the sun. |
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17 Of Giants and Dwarfs: Stepping Out into the Stars Observing, measuring, and classifying stars. |
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18 Stellar Careers How stars evolve--and how they end their lives. |
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19 Black Holes: One-Way Tickets to Eternity Stellar endgames: neutron stars, black holes, and the strange effects they produce. |
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20 A Star Is Born How stars are created. |
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| Part 5: Way Out of This World |
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21 The Milky Way: Much More Than a Candy Bar A tour of our home Galaxy. |
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22 A Galaxy of Galaxies Observing, measuring, and classifying galaxies. |
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23 Moving Out of Town Active versus normal galaxies: Seyfert and radio galaxies, plus quasars. |
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| Part 6: The Big Questions |
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24 Are We Alone? The odds on life beyond Earth and on other civilizations in the Milky Way. |
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25 What About the Big Bang? How it all began (we think). |
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26 (How) Will It End? Is the universe infinite or finite? Eternal or mortal? Will it end--and, if so, how? |
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| Appendices |
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| A Star Words Glossary A glossary of astronomy. |
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| B Upcoming Eclipses A list of lunar and solar eclipses to watch for. |
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| C The Constellations A complete list of the constellations, with their approximate positions. |
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| D The Messier Catalog The classic list of deep-sky objects--available to amateur astronomers. |
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| E Sources for Astronomers Key sources of information, including books, guides, charts, astronomical event calendars, and Internet resources. |
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| Index |
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