Seeds Foundations of Astronomy, 9th edition
Contents:
Introduction
PART 1: EXPLORING THE SKY
Chapter 1: The Scale of the Cosmos
Chapter 2: The Sky
Chapter 3: Cycles of the Moon
Chapter 4: The Origin of Modern Astronomy
Chapter 5: Newton, Einstein, and Gravity
Chapter 6: Light and Telescopes
PART 2: THE STARS
Chapter 7: Starlight and Atoms
Chapter 8: The Sun
Chapter 9: The Family of Stars
Chapter 10: The Interstellar Medium
Chapter 11: The Formation of Stars
Chapter 12: Stellar Evolution
Chapter 13: The Deaths of Stars
Chapter 14: Neutron Stars and Black Holes
PART 3: The Universe
Chapter 15: The Milky Way Galaxy
Chapter 16: Galaxies
Chapter 17: Galaxies with Active Nuclei
Chapter 18: Cosmology in the 21
st
Century
PART 4: THE SOLAR SYSTEM
Chapter 19: The Origin of the Solar System
Chapter 20: Earth: The Standard of ComparativePlanetology
Chapter 21: The Moon and Mercury: Comparing Airless Worlds
Chapter 22: Comparative Planetology of Venus and Mars
Chapter 23:
Comparative Planetology of
Jupiter and Saturn
Chapter 24:
Comparative Planetology of
Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto
Chapter 25: Meteorites, Asteroids, and Comets
PART 5: LIFE
Chapter 26: Life on Other Worlds
Seeds Foundations of Astronomy, 9th edition