(eBook PDF) Astronomy Today 8th Edition by Eric Chaisson

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0321901673
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0321901675
• Author:  Eric Chaisson (Author), Steve McMillan (Author)

table of contents:

• I. ASTRONOMY AND THE UNIVERSE
• 1. Charting the Heavens: The Foundations of Astronomy
• 2. The Copernican Revolution: The Birth of Modern Science
• 3. Radiation: Information from the Cosmos
• 4. Spectroscopy: The Inner Workings of Atoms
• 5. Telescopes: The Tools of Astronomy
• II. OUR PLANETARY SYSTEM
• 6. The Solar System: Comparative Planetology and Formation Models
• 7. Earth: Our Home in Space
• 8. The Moon and Mercury: Scorched and Battered Worlds
• 9. Venus: Earth’s Sister Planet
• 10. Mars: A Near Miss for Life?
• 11. Jupiter: Giant of the Solar System
• 12. Saturn: Spectacular Rings and Mysterious Moons
• 13. Uranus and Neptune: The Outer Worlds of the Solar System
• 14. Solar System Debris: Keys to Our Origin
• 15. Exoplanets: Planetary Systems Beyond Our Own.
• III. STARS AND STELLAR EVOLUTION
• 16. The Sun: Our Parent Star
• 17. The Stars: Giants, Dwarfs, and the Main Sequence
• 18. The Interstellar Medium: Gas and Dust among the Stars
• 19. Star Formation: A Traumatic Birth
• 20. Stellar Evolution: The Life and Death of a Star
• 21. Stellar Explosions: Novae, Supernovae, and the Formation of the Elements
• 22. Neutron Stars and Black Holes: Strange States of Matter
• IV. GALAXIES AND COSMOLOGY
• 23. The Milky Way Galaxy: A Spiral in Space
• 24. Galaxies: Building Blocks of the Universe
• 25. Galaxies and Dark Matter: The Large-Scale Structure of the Cosmos
• 26. Cosmology: The Big Bang and the Fate of the Universe
• 27. The Early Universe: Toward the Beginning of Time
• 28. Life in the Universe: Are We Alone?

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