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Title Page; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; Astronomy Lingo; The Solar System; The Sun; Space Weather; Mercury; Venus; Earth; The Moon; Mars; Jupiter; Saturn; Uranus; Neptune; Pluto; Comets; Meteors and Meteorites; Asteroids; The Stars; Star Clusters; Star Birth; Star Death; Black Holes; Galaxies; Galaxy Formation; The Milky Way; Active Galaxies and Quasars; Dark Matter; The Structure of the Universe; Gravitational Lenses; The Big Bang; A Science-Fiction Universe; Extraterrestrial Life; The History of Astronomy; Nicolaus Copernicus; Galileo Galilei; Johannes Kepler; The Herschels. Isaac NewtonHenrietta Swan Leavitt; Edwin P. Hubble; Albert Einstein; Jocelyn Bell Burnell; Vera Cooper Rubin; Clyde Tombaugh; Mike Brown; Astrophysics and Astronomy; Astrobiology; Planetary Science; Cosmic Time Machines; Hubble Space Telescope; The Kepler Mission; Chandra X-Ray Observatory; Spitzer Space Telescope; Fermi; The Future of Astronomy; You Can Do Astronomy; Bibliography/References; Acknowledgments; Copyright; Tables. Explore the curiosities of our galaxy! Too often, textbooks obscure the beauty and wonder of outer space with tedious discourse that even Galileo would oppose. Astronomy 101 c
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- Author
- Petersen, Carolyn Collins
- Publisher
- F+W Media
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781440563607
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Fiction, Reference, Astronomy
- Rating
- 4.18 / 5 (114 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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