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PART I Introduction to Astronomy
Chapter 1. Why Learn Astronomy?
Chapter 2. Patterns in the Sky?Motions of Earth
Chapter 3. Motion of Astronomical Bodies
Chapter 4. Gravity and Orbits?A Celestial Ballet
Chapter 5. Light
Chapter 6. The Tools of the Astronomer
PART II The Solar System
Chapter 7. The Birth and Evolution of Planetary Systems
Chapter 8. The Terrestrial Planets and Earth's Moon
Chapter 9. Atmospheres of the Terrestrial Planets
Chapter 10. Worlds of Gas and Liquid?The Giant Planets
Chapter 11. Planetary Adornments?Moons and Rings
Chapter 12. Dwarf Planets and Small Solar System Bodies
Part III Stars and Stellar Evolution
Chapter 13. Taking the Measure of Stars
Chapter 14. Our Sun
Chapter 15. Star Formation and the Interstellar Medium
Chapter 16. Stars in the Slow Lane?Low-Mass Stellar
Evolution
Chapter 17. Live Fast, Die Young?High-Mass Stellar
Evolution
Chapter 18. Relativity and Black Holes
Part IV Galaxies, the Universe, and Cosmology
Chapter 19. Our Expanding Universe
Chapter 20. Galaxies
Chapter 21. The Milky Way?A Normal Spiral Galaxy
Chapter 22. Modern Cosmology
Chapter 23. The Origin of Structure
Chapter 24. Life
Laura Kay is Ann Whitney Olin professor and Chair of the Department
of Physics and Astronomy at Barnard College, where she has taught
since 1991. She received a BS degree in physics and an AB degree in
feminist studies from Stanford University, and MS and PhD degrees
in astronomy and astrophysics from the University of
California–Santa Cruz. As a graduate student she spent 13 months at
the Amundsen Scott station at the South Pole in Antarctica, and has
had fellowships in Chile and Brazil. She studies active galactic
nuclei using optical and X-ray telescopes. At Barnard she teaches
courses on astronomy, astrobiology, women and science, and polar
exploration.
Stacy Palen is an award-winning professor in the physics department
at Weber State University. She received her BS in physics from
Rutgers University and her PhD in physics from the University of
Iowa. As a lecturer and postdoc at the University of Washington,
she taught Introductory Astronomy more than 20 times over 4 years.
Since joining Weber State, she has been very active in science
outreach activities ranging from star parties to running the state
Science Olympiad. Stacy does research in formal and informal
astronomy education and the death of Sun-like stars. She spends
much of her time thinking, teaching, and writing about the
applications of science in everyday life. She then puts that
science to use on her small farm in Ogden, Utah.
Brad Smith is a retired professor of planetary science. He has
served as an associate professor of astronomy at New Mexico State
University, a professor of planetary sciences and astronomy at the
University of Arizona, and as a research astronomer at the
University of Hawaii. Through his interest in Solar System
astronomy, he has participated as a team member or imaging team
leader on several U.S. and international space missions, including
Mars Mariners 6, 7, and 9; Viking; Voyagers 1 and 2; and the Soviet
Vega and Phobos missions. He later turned his interest to
extrasolar planetary systems, investigating circumstellar debris
disks as a member of the Hubble Space Telescope NICMOS experiment
team. Brad has four times been awarded the NASA Medal for
Exceptional Scientific Achievement. He is a member of the IAU
Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature and is Chair of the
Task Group for Mars Nomenclature. George Blumenthal is the
director of the Center for Studies in Higher Education at the
University of California, Berkeley. From 2006 to 2019 he was
chancellor at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
He joined the UC Santa Cruz faculty as a professor of
astronomy and astrophysics in 1972. Chancellor Blumenthal received
his BS degree from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and his
PhD in physics from the University of California, San
Diego. As a theoretical astrophysicist, Blumenthal's
research encompasses several broad areas, including the nature
of the dark matter that constitutes most of the mass in the
universe, the origin of galaxies and other large structures in the
universe, the earliest moments in the universe, astrophysical
radiation processes, and the structure of active galactic nuclei
such as quasars.
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