Astronomy for Dummies
- Binding: Paperback
- Edition: 2
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Publish date: 04/22/2005
Description:
Introduction.Part I: Stalking the Cosmos.Chapter 1: Seeing the Light: The Art and Science of Astronomy.Chapter 2: Join the Crowd: Skywatching Activities and Resources.Chapter 3: The Way You Watch Tonight: Terrific Tools for Observing the Skies.Chapter 4: Just Passing Through: Meteors, Comets, and Artificial Satellites.Part II: Going Once Around the Solar System.Chapter 5: A Matched Pair: Earth and Its Moon.Chapter 6: Earth's Near Neighbors: Mercury, Venus, and Mars.Chapter 7: Rock On: The Asteroid Belt and Near-Earth Objects.Chapter 8: Great Balls of Gas: Jupiter and Saturn.Chapter 9: Far Out! Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, and Beyond.Part III: Meeting Old Sol and Other Stars.Chapter 10: The Sun: Star of the Earth.Chapter 11: Taking a Trip to the Stars.Chapter 12: Galaxies: The Milky Way and Beyond.Chapter 13: Digging into Black Holes and Quasars.Part IV: Pondering the Remarkable Universe.Chapter 14: Is Anybody Out There? SETI and Planets of Other Suns.Chapter 15: Delving into Dark Matter and Antimatter.Chapter 16: The Big Bang and the Evolution of the Universe.Part V: The Part of Tens.Chapter 17: Ten Strange Facts about Astronomy and Space.Chapter 18: Ten Common Errors about Astronomy and Space.Part VI: Appendixes.Appendix A: Finding the Planets: 2006 to 2010.Appendix B: Star Maps.Appendix C: Glossary.Index.
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