21^st Century Astronomy, Second Edition

21^st Century Astronomy, Second Edition

FlashCards

1. Why Learn Astronomy?
2. Patterns in the Sky—Motions of Earth
3. Gravity and Orbits—A Celestial Ballet
4. Light
5. The Tools of the Astronomer
6. A Brief History of the Solar System
7. The Terrestrial Planets and Earth’s Moon
8. Atmospheres of the Terrestrial Planets
9. Worlds of Gas and Liquid—The Giant Planets
10. Gravity Is More than Kepler’s Laws
11. Planetary Moons and Rings, and Dwarf Planets
12. Asteroids, Meteorites, Comets, and Other Debris
13. Taking the Measure of Stars
14. A Run-of-the-Mill G Dwarf: Our Sun
15. Star Formation and the Interstellar Medium
16. Stars in the Slow Lane
17. Live Fast, Die Young
18. Galaxies
19. The Milky Way—A Normal Spiral Galaxy
20. Our Expanding Universe
21. The Origin of Structure

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