Astronomy : a beginner's guide to the universe
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Astronomy : a beginner's guide to the universe
Pearson/Prentice Hall, c2007
5th ed
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Includes index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
For one-semester Introduction to Astronomy courses.
The authors incorporate three themes in the briefer of their two textbooks; process of science (how we know what we know), the size and scale of the universe as well as the evolution of the universe. A Beginner's Guide emphasizes critical thinking and visualization, and a leading-edge technology program.
目次
PART 1. FOUNDATIONS
Exploring the Heavens: Introduction
1. The Copernican Revolution: The Birth of Modern Science
2. Light and Matter: The Inner Workings of the Cosmos
3. Telescopes: The Tools of Astronomy
PART 2. OUR PLANETARY SYSTEM
4. The Solar System: Interplanetary Matter and the Birth of the Planets
5. Earth and Its Moon: Our Cosmic Backyard
6. The Terrestrial Planets: A Study in Contrasts
7. The Jovian Planets: Giants of the Solar System
8. Moons, Rings, and Pluto: Small Worlds Among Giants
PART 3. THE STARS
9. The Sun: Our Parent Star
10. Measuring the Stars: Giants, Dwarfs, and the Main Sequence
11. The Interstellar Medium: Star Formation in the Milky Way 12 Stellar Evolution: The Lives and Deaths of Stars
13. Neutron Stars and Black Holes: Strange States of Matter
PART 4. GALAXIES AND THE UNIVERSE
14. The Milky Way Galaxy: A Grand Design
15. Normal and Active Galaxies: Building Blocks of the Universe
16. Hubble's Law and Dark Matter: The Large-Scale Structure of the Cosmos
17. Cosmology: The Big Bang and the Fate of the Universe
18. Life in the Universe: Are We Alone?
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