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Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe 4th edition
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Eric Chaisson and Steve McMillan
Published by Addison Wesley

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Chapter 1: The Copernican Revolution: The Birth of Modern Science

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Chapter 2: Light and Matter: The Inner Workings of the Cosmos

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Chapter 3: Telescopes: The Tools of Astronomy

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Chapter 4: The Solar System: Interplanetary Matter and the Birth of the Planets

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Chapter 5: Earth and Its Moon: Our Cosmic Backyard

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Chapter 6: The Terrestrial Planets: A Study in Contrasts

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Chapter 7: The Jovian Planets: Giants of the Solar System

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Chapter 8: Moons, Ring, and Pluto: Small Worlds among Giants

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Chapter 9: The Sun: Our Parent Star

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Chapter 10: Measuring the Stars: Giants, Dwarfs, and the Main Sequence

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Chapter 11: The Interstellar Medium: Birthplace of Stars

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Chapter 12: Stellar Evolution: The Lives and Deaths of Stars

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Chapter 13: Neutron Stars and Black Holes: Strange States of Matter

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Chapter 14: The Milky Way Galaxy: A Grand Design

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Chapter 15: Normal and Active Galaxies: Building Blocks of the Universe

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Chapter 16: Hubble's Law and Dark Matter: The Large-Scale Structure of the Cosmos

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Chapter 17: Cosmology: The Big Bang and the Fate of the Universe

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Chapter 18: Life in the Universe: Are We Alone?

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