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Astronomy -- Textbooks.
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Astronomy / senior contributing authors: Andrew Fraknoi, David Morrison, Sidney C. Wolff.
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Fraknoi, Andrew, author.
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Astronomy -- Textbooks.
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9781938168284
1938168283
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1190 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
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Science and the Universe: a brief tour -- Observing the sky: The birth of astronomy -- Orbits and gravity -- Earth, moon, and sky -- Radiation and spectra -- Astronomical instruments -- Other worlds: An introduction to the solar system -- Earth as a planet -- Cratered worlds -- Earthlike planets: Venus and Mars -- The giant planets -- Rings, moons, and Pluto -- Comets and asteroids: debris of the solar system -- Cosmic samples and the origin of the solar system -- The Sun: a garden-variety star -- The sun: a nuclear powerhouse -- Analyzing starlight -- The stars: a celestial census -- Celestial distances -- Between the stars: gas and dust in space -- The birth of stars and the discovery of planets outside the solar system -- Stars from adolescence to old age -- The death of stars -- Black holes and curved spacetime -- The Milky Way Galaxy -- Galaxies -- Active galaxies, Quasars, and supermassive black holes -- The evolution and distribution of galaxies -- The big bang -- Life in the universe.
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QB43.3 .F73 2016
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