目录: Contents at a Glance Part 1: Eyes, Telescopes, and Light 1 1 Naked Sky, Naked Eye: Finding Your Way in the Dark 3 Finding your way around the night sky requires no tele scope. 2 Collecting Light 13 Telescopes: what they see and how they work. 3 Over the Rainbow 29 Learn what electromagnetic radiation is, how it travels, and what it does. Part 2: Worlds Without End 43 4 Solar System Family Snapshot 45 Take a tour through our solar system. 5 Hard, Rocky Places: The Inner Planets 57 Get the lowdown on Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. 6 Bloated and Gassy: The Outer Planets 71 Find out all about Uranus, Neptune, Jupiter, and Saturn. 7 The Moon, Moons, and Rings 85 Discover information about the Earth’s moon—plus the moons and rings of the jovian planets, and the story of Pluto. 8 This World and Beyond 105 Learn how our solar system was born and developed— and get a glimpse at planetary systems beyond our own. Part 3: To the Stars 119 9 The Sun: Our Star 121 Explore the Sun. 10 Giants, Dwarfs, and the Stellar Family 135 Observe, measure, and classify the stars. 11 The Life and Death of Stars 153 Understand how stars evolve—and how they end their lives.
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