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