Preview The Cosmic Landscape

1 History of Astronomy

Essay 1 Backyard Astronomy

2 Gravity and Motion

3 Light and Atoms

4 Telescopes

5 The Sun, Our Star

6 Measuring the Properties of Stars

7 Stellar Evolution

8 Stellar Remnants: White Dwarfs, Neutron Stars, and Black Holes

9 The Milky Way Galaxy

10 Galaxies

11 Cosmology

12 The Earth

Essay 2 Keeping Time

13 The Moon

14 Survey of the Solar System

15 The Terrestrial Planets

16 The Outer Planets

17 Meteors, Asteroids, and Comets

Essay 4 Life in the Universe

Appendix

Powers-of-Ten Notation

Some Useful Formulas

Solving Distance, Velocity, Time (D, v, t)

Problems