Select a chapter Chapter 1: Astronomy and the Universe Chapter 2: Knowing the Heavens Chapter 3: Eclipses and the Motion of the Moon Chapter 4: Gravitation and the Motions of the Planets Chapter 5: The Nature of Light and Matter Chapter 6: Optics and Telescopes Chapter 7: Our Solar System Chapter 8: Our Living Earth Chapter 9: Our Barren Moon Chapter 10: Sun-Scorched Mercury Chapter 11: Cloud-Covered Venus Chapter 12: Red Planet Mars Chapter 13: Jupiter: Lord of the Planets Chapter 14: The Galilean Satellites of Jupiter Chapter 15: The Spectacular Saturnian System Chapter 16: The Outer Worlds Chapter 17: Vagabonds of the Solar System Chapter 18: Our Star, the Sun Chapter 19: The Nature of Stars Chapter 20: The Birth of Stars Chapter 21: Stellar Evolution: After the Main Sequence Chapter 22: Stellar Evolution: The Death of Stars Chapter 23: Neutron Stars Chapter 24: Black Holes Chapter 25: Our Galaxy Chapter 26: Galaxies Chapter 27: Quasars, Blazars, and Active Galaxies Chapter 28: Cosmology: The Creation and Fate of the Universe Chapter 29: Exploring the Early Universe Chapter 30: The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

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