Understanding the Universe: An Introduction to Astronomy, 2nd Edition

2. The Rainbow Connection

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3. Sunrise, Sunset

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4. Bright Objects in the Night Sky

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5. Fainter Phenomena in the Night Sky

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6. Our Sky through Binoculars and Telescopes

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7. The Celestial Sphere

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8. The Reason for the Seasons

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9. Lunar Phases and Eerie Lunar Eclipses

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10. Glorious Total Solar Eclipses

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11. More Eclipse Tales

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12. Early Studies of the Solar System

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13. The Geocentric Universe

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14. Galileo and the Copernican Revolution

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15. Refinements to the Heliocentric Model

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16. On the Shoulders of Giants

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17. Surveying Space and Time

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18. Scale Models of the Universe

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19. Light-The Supreme Informant

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20. The Wave-Particle Duality of Light

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21. The Colors of Stars

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22. The Fingerprints of Atoms

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23. Modern Telescopes

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24. A Better Set of Eyes

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25. Our Sun, the Nearest Star

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26. The Earth, Third Rock from the Sun

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27. Our Moon, Earth's Nearest Neighbor

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28. Mercury and Venus

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29. Of Mars and Martians

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30. Jupiter and Its Amazing Moons

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31. Magnificent Saturn

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32. Uranus and Neptune, the Small Giants

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33. Pluto and Its Cousins

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34. Asteroids and Dwarf Planets

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35. Comets-Gorgeous Primordial Snowballs

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36. Catastrophic Collisions

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37. The Formation of Planetary Systems

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38. The Quest for Other Planetary Systems

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39. Extra-Solar Planets Galore!

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40. Life Beyond the Earth

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41. The Search for Extraterrestrials

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42. Special Relativity and Interstellar Travel

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43. Stars-Distant Suns

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44. The Intrinsic Brightnesses of Stars

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45. The Diverse Sizes of Stars

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46. Binary Stars and Stellar Masses

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47. Star Clusters, Ages, and Remote Distances

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48. How Stars Shine-Nature's Nuclear Reactors

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49. Solar Neutrinos-Probes of the Sun's Core

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50. Brown Dwarfs and Free-Floating Planets

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51. Our Sun's Brilliant Future

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52. White Dwarfs and Nova Eruptions

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53. Exploding Stars-Celestial Fireworks!

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54. White Dwarf Supernovae-Stealing to Explode

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55. Core-Collapse Supernovae-Gravity Wins

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56. The Brightest Supernova in Nearly 400 Years

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57. The Corpses of Massive Stars

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58. Einstein's General Theory of Relativity

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59. Warping of Space and Time

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60. Black Holes-Abandon Hope, Ye Who Enter

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61. The Quest for Black Holes

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62. Imagining the Journey to a Black Hole

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63. Wormholes-Gateways to Other Universes?

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64. Quantum Physics and Black-Hole Evaporation

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65. Enigmatic Gamma-Ray Bursts

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66. Birth Cries of Black Holes

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67. Our Home-The Milky Way Galaxy

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68. Structure of the Milky Way Galaxy

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69. Other Galaxies-"Island Universes"

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70. The Dark Side of Matter

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71. Cosmology-The Really Big Picture

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72. Expansion of the Universe and the Big Bang

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73. Searching for Distant Galaxies

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74. The Evolution of Galaxies

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75. Active Galaxies and Quasars

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76. Cosmic Powerhouses of the Distant Past

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77. Supermassive Black Holes

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78. Feeding the Monster

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79. The Paradox of the Dark Night Sky

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80. The Age of the Universe

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81. When Geometry Is Destiny

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82. The Mass Density of the Universe

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83. Einstein's Biggest Blunder?

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84. The Afterglow of the Big Bang

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85. Ripples in the Cosmic Background Radiation

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86. The Stuff of the Cosmos

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87. Dark Energy-Quantum Fluctuations?

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88. Dark Energy-Quintessence?

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89. Grand Unification & Theories of Everything

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90. Searching for Hidden Dimensions

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91. The Shape, Size, and Fate of the Universe

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92. In the Beginning

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93. The Inflationary Universe

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94. The Ultimate Free Lunch?

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95. A Universe of Universes

32m

96. Reflections on Life and the Cosmos

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