Astronomy

Foundations of Astronomy
Fourteenth Edition
Michael A. Seeds / Dana E. Backman
© 2019

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Contents

I. Exploring the Sky

1. Here and Now
2. A User’s Guide to the Sky
3. Moon Phases and Eclipses
4. Origins of Modern Astronomy
5. Gravity
6. Light and Telescopes

II. The Stars

7. Atoms and Spectra
8. The Sun
9. The Family of Stars
10. The Interstellar Medium
11. The Formation and Structure of Stars
12. Stellar Evolution
13. The Deaths of Stars
14. Neutron Stars and Black Holes

III. The Universe

15. The Milky Way Galaxy
16. Galaxies: Normal and Active
17. Modern Cosmology

IV. The Solar System

18. Origin of the Solar System and Extrasolar Planets
19. Earth: The Active Planet
20. The Moon and Mercury: Comparing Airless Worlds
21. Venus and Mars
22. Jupiter and Saturn
23. Uranus, Neptune, and the Kuiper Belt
24. Meteorites, Asteroids, and Comets

V. Life

25. Astrobiology: Life on Other Worlds