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- ISBN-10 : 0321691431
- ISBN-13 : 978-0321691439
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With Astronomy Today, Seventh Edition, trusted authors Eric Chaisson and Steve McMillan communicate their excitement about astronomy and awaken you to the universe around you. The text emphasizes critical thinking and visualization, and it focuses on the process of scientific discovery, making “how we know what we know” an integral part of the text. The revised edition has been thoroughly updated with the latest astronomical discoveries and theories, and it has been streamlined to keep you focused on the essentials and to develop an understanding of the “big picture.”
Table of contents:
PART ONE | Astronomy and the Universe 1 1 Charting the Heavens: The Foundations of Astronomy 2 2 The Copernican Revolution: The Birth of Modern Science 32 3 Radiation: Information from the Cosmos 60 4 Spectroscopy: The Inner Workings of Atoms 82 5 Telescopes: The Tools of Astronomy 104 PART TWO | Our Planetary System 140 6 The Solar System: An Introduction to Comparative Planetology 142 7 Earth: Our Home in Space 168 8 The Moon and Mercury: Scorched and Battered Worlds 198 9 Venus: Earth's Sister Planet 228 10 Mars: A Near Miss for Life? 250 11 Jupiter: Giant of the Solar System 274 12 Saturn: Spectacular Rings and Mysterious Moons 302 13 Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto: The Outer Worlds of the Solar System 328 14 Solar System Debris: Keys to Our Origin 354 15 The Formation of Planetary Systems: The Solar System and Beyond 382 PART THREE | Stars and Stellar Evolution 402 16 The Sun: Our Parent Star 404 17 Red Giants and White Dwarfs: A Field Guide to the Stars 436 18 The Interstellar Medium: Gas and Dust among the Stars 466 19 Star Formation: A Traumatic Birth 488 20 Stellar Evolution: The Life and Death of a Star 514 21 Stellar Explosions: Novae, Supernovae, and the Formation of the Elements 542 22 Neutron Stars and Black Holes: Strange States of Matter 566 PART FOUR | Galaxies and Cosmology 600 23 Galaxies and Cosmology: A Spiral in Space 602 24 Normal and Active Galaxies: Building Blocks of the Universe 632 25 Galaxies and Dark Matter: The Large-Scale Structure of the Cosmos 666 26 Cosmology: The Big Bang and the Fate of the Universe 692 27 The Early Universe: Toward the Beginning of Time 716 28 Life in the Universe: Are We Alone? 742
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