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Chapter 1: The Cosmic Landscape
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Chapter 2: Beyond the Solar System
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Chapter 3: Astronomical Numbers
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Chapter 4: Foundations of Astronomy
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Chapter 5: The Night Sky
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Chapter 6: The Year
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Chapter 7: The Time of Day
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Chapter 8: Lunar Cycles
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Chapter 9: Calendars
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Chapter 10: Geometry of the Earth, Moon, and Sun
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Chapter 11: Planets: The Wandering Stars
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Chapter 12: The Beginnings of Modern Astronomy
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Chapter 13: Observing the Sky
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Chapter 14: Astronomical Motion: Inertia, Mass, and Force
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Chapter 15: Force, Acceleration, and Interaction
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Chapter 16: The Universal Law of Gravity
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Chapter 17: Measuring a Body's Mass Using Orbital Motion
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Chapter 18: Orbital and Escape Velocities
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Chapter 19: Tides
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Chapter 20: Conservation Laws
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Chapter 21: Light, Matter, and Energy
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Chapter 22: The Electromagnetic Spectrum
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Chapter 23: Thermal Radiation
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Chapter 24: Atomic Spectra: Identifying Atoms by Their Light
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Chapter 25: The Doppler Shift
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Chapter 26: Detecting Light
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Chapter 27: Collecting Light
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Chapter 28: Focusing Light
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Chapter 29: Telescope Resolution
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Chapter 30: The Earth's Atmosphere
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Chapter 31: Amateur Astronomy
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Chapter 32: The Structure of the Solar System
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Chapter 33: The Origin of the Solar System
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Chapter 34: Other Planetary Systems
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Chapter 35: The Earth as a Terrestrial Planet
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Chapter 36: Earth's Atmosphere and Hydrosphere
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Chapter 37: Our Moon
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Chapter 38: Mercury
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Chapter 39: Venus
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Chapter 40: Mars
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Chapter 41: Asteroids
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Chapter 42: Comparative Planetology
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Chapter 43: Jupiter and Saturn
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Chapter 45: Satellite Systems and Rings
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Chapter 46: Ice Worlds, Pluto, and Beyond
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Chapter 47: comets
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Chapter 48: Impacts on Earth
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Chapter 49: The Sun, Our Star
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Chapter 50: The Sun's Source of Power
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Chapter 51: Solar Activity
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Chapter 52: Surveying the Stars
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Chapter 53: Special Relativity
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Chapter 54: Light and Distance
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Chapter 55: The Temperatures and Compositions of Stars
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Chapter 56: The Masses of Orbiting Stars
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Chapter 57: The Sizes of Stars
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Chapter 58: The H-R Diagram
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Chapter 59: Stellar Evolution
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Chapter 60: Star Formation
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Chapter 61: Main-Sequence Stars
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Chapter 62: Giant Stars
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Chapter 63: Variable Stars
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Chapter 64: Mass Loss and Death of Low-Mass Stars
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Chapter 65: Exploding White Dwarfs
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Chapter 66: Old Age and Death of Massive Stars
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Chapter 67: Neutron Stars
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Chapter 68: Black Holes
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Chapter 69: Star Cluster
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Chapter 70: Discovering the Milky Way
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Chapter 71: Stars of the Milky Way
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Chapter 72: Gas and Dust in the Milky Way
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Chapter 73: Mass and Motions in the Milky Way
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Chapter 74: A Universe of Galaxies
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Chapter 75: Types of Galaxies
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Chapter 76: Galaxy Clustering
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Chapter 77: Active Galactic Nuclei
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Chapter 78: Dark Matter
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Chapter 79: Cosmology
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Chapter 80: The Edges of the Universe
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Chapter 81: The Beginnings of the Universe
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Chapter 82: The Fate of the Universe
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Chapter 83: Astrobiology
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