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Introduction -- What is astronomy? -- The Solar System -- The Sun -- Space Weather -- Mercury -- Venus -- Earth -- The Moon -- Mars -- Jupiter -- Saturn -- Uranus -- Neptune -- Pluto and the Kuiper Belt -- 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 and dark energy -- The Structure of the Universe -- Gravitational Lenses -- Gravitational Waves -- The Big Bang -- A Science Fiction Universe -- Extraterrestrial Life -- The History of Astronomy --Nicolaus Copernicus -- Galileo Galilei -- Johannes Kepler -- The Herschels -- Sir Isaac Newton -- Henrietta Swan Leavitt -- Edwin P. Hubble -- Albert Einstein -- Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin -- Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell -- Vera Cooper Rubin -- Astrophysics and Astronomy -- Astrobiology -- The Study of Other Worlds -- Searching for exoplanets -- Cosmic Time Machines -- Hubble Space Telescope -- James Webb Space Telescope -- Charting the High-Energy Universe -- The Future of Astronomy -- You can do Astronomy -- References -- Index
"Have you ever looked up at the night sky and wondered what's really out there--or how we've come to understand so much about a universe so vast? Whether you're a lifelong stargazer or newly space-curious, Astronomy 101, 2nd Edition delivers a clear, engaging guide to the cosmos--now fully updated to include the most exciting discoveries of the 21st century"-- Amazon website