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Cengage Foundations of Astronomy Enhanced 2016 Edition by Dana Backman, Michael Seeds
Fascinating, engaging, and extremely visual, FOUNDATIONS OF ASTRONOMY, Enhanced Thirteenth Edition, is renowned for its current coverage, reader-friendly presentation, and detailed, yet clear explanations. The authors' goals are to help you use astronomy to understand science-and use science to answer two fundamental questions: What are we? And how do we know?_x000D_ Table of Contents :- _x000D_
PART 1: THE SKY._x000D_
1. Here and Now._x000D_
2. A User's Guide to the Sky._x000D_
3. Moon Phases and Eclipses._x000D_
4. Origins of Modern Astronomy._x000D_
5. Gravity._x000D_
6. Light and Telescopes._x000D_
PART 2: THE STARS._x000D_
7. Atoms and Spectra._x000D_
8. The Sun._x000D_
9. The Family of Stars._x000D_
10. The Interstellar Medium._x000D_
11. Formation and Structure of Stars._x000D_
12. Stellar Evolution._x000D_
13. Deaths of Stars._x000D_
14. Neutron Stars and Black Holes._x000D_
PART 3: GALAXIES AND THE UNIVERSE._x000D_
15. The Milky Way Galaxy._x000D_
16. Galaxies._x000D_
17. Supermassive Black Holes and Active Galaxies._x000D_
18. Modern Cosmology._x000D_
PART 4: THE SOLAR SYSTEM._x000D_
19. Origin of the Solar System and Extrasolar Planets._x000D_
20. Earth: The Active Planet._x000D_
21. The Moon and Mercury._x000D_
22. Venus and Mars._x000D_
23. Jupiter and Saturn._x000D_
24. Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, and the Kuiper Belt._x000D_
25. Meteorites, Asteroids, and Comets._x000D_
Part 5: LIFE._x000D_
26. Astrobiology._x000D_
Afterword._x000D_
Appendix A: Scientific Units and Astronomical Data._x000D_
Appendix B: Star Charts._x000D_
Glossary._x000D_