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Discovering the Essential Universe

by Neil F. Comins

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Discovering the Essential Universe

Fifth Edition ©2013

ISBN-10: 1-4292-5519-6
ISBN-13: 978-1-4292-5519-6
Paper Text, 300 pages

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CONTENTS

Preface 

1 Discovering the Night Sky 
2 Gravitation and the Motion of the Planets
3 Light and Telescopes
4 Formation of the Solar System and Other Planetary Systems
5 The Terrestrial Planets and Their Moons
6 The Outer Planets and Their Moons
7 Dwarf Planets and Small Solar System Bodies
8 The Sun: Our Extraordinary Ordinary Star
9 Characterizing Stars
10 The Lives of Stars
11 The Deaths and Remnants of Stars
12 The Galaxies
13 Cosmology
14 Astrobiology

Appendices
Glossary 
Answers to Margin Questions and Computational Questions
Index
 

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