BRIEF CONTENTS
PARTI INTRODUCTION TO ASTRONOMY
1. Thinking Like an Astronomer
2 Patterns in the Sky-Motions of Earth and the Moon
3 Motion of Astronomical Bodies
4 Gravity and Orbits
5 Light
6 The Tools of the Astronomer
PART II THE SOLAR SYSTEM
7 The Formation of Planetary Systems
8 The Terrestrial Planets and Earth's Moon
9 Atmospheres of the Terrestrial Planets
10 Worlds of Gas and Liquid-The Giant Planets
11 Planetary Moons and Rings
12 Dwarf Planets and Small Solar System Bodies
PART III STARS AND STELLAR EVOLUTION
13 Taking the Measure of Stars
14 Our Star-The Sun
15 The interstellar Medium and Star Formation
16 Evolution of Low-Mass Stars
17 Evolution of High-Mass Stars
18 Relativity and Black Holes
PART IV GALAXIES, THE UNIVERSE, AND COSMOLOGY
19 Galaxies
20 The Milky Way-A Normal Spiral Galaxy
21 The Expanding Universe
22 Cosmology
23 Large-Scale Structure in the Universe
24 Life
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