Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe
Third Edition

by
Eric Chaisson
Tufts University
Steve McMillan
Drexel University

Select a topic: Charting the Heavens 1: The Copernican Revolution: The Birth of Modern Science 2: Light and Matter: The Inner Workings of the Cosmos 3: Telescopes: The Tools of Astronomy 4: The Solar System: Interplanetary Matter and the Birth of the Planets 5: Earth and Its Moon: Our Cosmic Backyard 6: The Terrestrial Planets: A Study in Contrasts 7: The Jovian Planets: Giants of the Solar System 8: Moons, Rings, and Pluto: Small Worlds Among Giants 9: The Sun: Our Planet's Star 10: Measuring the Stars: Giants, Dwarfs, and the Main Sequence 11: The Interstellar Medium: Birthplace of Stars 12: Stellar Evolution: The Lives and Deaths of Stars 13: Neutron Stars and Black Holes: Strange States of Matter 14: The Milky Way Galaxy: A Grand Design 15: Normal Galaxies: The Large-Scale Structure of the Universe 16: Active Galaxies and Quasars: Limits of the Observable Universe 17: Cosmology: The Big Bang and the Fate of the Universe 18: Life in the Universe: Are We Alone?