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LAURA KAY thanks her wife, M.P.M. She dedicates this book to her late
uncle, Lee Jacobi, for an early introduction to physics, and to her late
colleagues at Barnard College, Tally Kampen and Sally Chapman.
STACY PALEN thanks her husband, John Armstrong, for his patient support
during this project.
5 Light 108
22 Cosmology 604
24 Life 660
CONTENTS
Chapters 8–12 are not included in this edition.
Preface xxi
Summary 17
Unanswered Questions 17
2.2 Revolution about the Sun Leads to Changes during the Year
33
Summary 53
Unanswered Question 53
Questions and Problems 54
Summary 77
Unanswered Questions 77
Summary 103
Light 108
5.1 Light Brings Us the News of the Universe 110
Summary 135
Summary 165
PART
THE SOLAR SYSTEM
II
The Formation of Planetary Systems 170
Summary 191
Unanswered Questions 191
PART
STARS AND STELLAR EVOLUTION
III
Summary 377
15.1 The Interstellar Medium Fills the Space between the Stars
412
Summary 433
Summary 463
Summary 491
Summary 519
PART
GALAXIES, THE UNIVERSE, AND COSMOLOGY
IV
Galaxies 524
19.1 Galaxies Come in Different Shapes and Sizes 526
Summary 549
Working It Out 20.1 The Mass of the Milky Way inside the Sun’s
Orbit 568
Working It Out 20.2 The Mass of the Milky Way’s Central Black
Hole 569
20
20.4 The History and Future of the Milky Way 570
Summary 575
Working It Out 21.1 Expansion and the Age of the Universe 588
21.3 Expansion Is Described with a Scale Factor 590
Summary 599
Cosmology 604
Summary 629
Summary 656
Life 660
Working It Out 24.2 Putting Numbers into the Drake Equation 676
Summary 681
24
Unanswered Questions 681
1.2Reading a Graph 14
3.1How Copernicus Computed Orbital Periods and Scaled the Solar System
64
4.4Tidal Forces 98
20.1The Mass of the Milky Way inside the Sun’s Orbit 568
20.2The Mass of the Milky Way’s Central Black Hole 569
Kepler’s Laws 66
Elliptical Orbit 92
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