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General Astronomy
Table of Contents: The Modern View of the Cosmos; The Big Picture; Short History of the Universe; Scientific Notation; The Scientific Method; What People do in Astronomy; Current Unsolved Mysteries; Observational Astronomy; The Celestial Sphere; Phases of the Moon; Eclipses; Daily Motions; Yearly Motions; Coordinate Systems; The Early Origins of Astronomy; The First Physics; Apparent Motions of the Planets; The Heliocentric Model; New Ideas About Motion; Kepler%27s Laws; Motion and Gravity; Properties of Light and other Electromagnetic Radiation; The Spectrum; Basic Astrophysics; Atomic Emission and Absorption; Molecular Emission and Absorption; Thermal Radiation; The Doppler Effect; Telescopes; The Terrestrial Planets; The Jovian Planets; Planetary Moons; Comets; Asteroids; Meteors and Meteorites; The Kuiper Belt; Extrasolar Planets; Formation of the Solar System; Earth%27s Early Years; Formation of the Moon; The Biosphere; The Atmosphere; Earth; Earth%27s Moon; First Steps into Space; The Apollo Missions; The Drake Equation; Life in the Solar System; The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence; The Sun; Fusion in the Sun; Convective and Radiative Zones; The Photosphere; Solar Activity; Space Weather; Helioseismology; The Solar Cycle; Stars/Introduction; Mass; Luminosity; Temperature; The H-R Diagram; Star Clusters as Cosmic Laboratories; Protostars and Stellar Nurseries; The Life of Low Mass Stars; The Death of Low Mass Stars; The Life of High Mass Stars; The Death of High Mass Stars; Black holes/Introduction; Life of the Black Hole; Black Holes in Hiding; History of the Black Hole; The Theory of the Naked Singularity; Spaghettification; The Milky Way; Types of Galaxies; Galactic Formation; Galactic Evolution; Supermassive Black Holes; Active Galactic Nuclei and Quasars; Introduction and Brief History of Gamma-Ray Bursts; Fluence and Extragalactic Nature; The Distance Ladder; The Big Bang and Cosmic Expansion; The First Three Minutes; An Accelerating Universe; References; Exercises
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