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ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0393124002
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0393124002
Author: Adam Frank

Astronomy: At Play in the Cosmos brings popular science writing to a textbook. In every chapter, author Adam Frank―a co-writer of the NPR blog “13.7 Cosmos and Culture”―integrates two interviews with leading scientists, a fascinating second voice that drives the narrative while making astronomy feel immediate, relevant, and real for students, and still capturing science’s human nature.

Table of Content:

Chapter 1: Getting Started: Science, Astronomy, and Being Human
1.1 Miles Apart and Years Between
1.2 Very, Very Old and Really, Really Big
1.3 The Contents and Story of the Cosmos
1.4 Why Science?
1.5 Science, Politics, and the Human Prospect on a Changing Planet
Anatomy of a Discovery
Chapter Summary
Questions and Problems
Chapter 2: A Universe Made, a Universe Discovered: The Night Sky and the Dawn of Astronomy
2.1 An Old Obsession
2.2 Dance of Night and Day: Basic Motions of the Sky
2.3 Monthly Changes of the Moon
2.4 Celestial Wanderers: The Motion of Planets
2.5 Stone and Myth: Astronomy Begins
2.6 The Greek Advancement of Science
Anatomy of a Discovery
Chapter Summary
Questions and Problems
Chapter 3: A Universe of Universal Laws: From the Copernican Revolution to Newton’s Gravity
3.1 Getting Past Ptolemy: The Copernican Revolution
3.2 Planets, Politics, and the Observations of Tycho Brahe
3.3 Kepler and the Laws of Planetary Motion
3.4 Galileo Invents New Sciences
3.5 Newton and the Universal Laws of Motion
Anatomy of a Discovery
Chapter Summary
Questions and Problems
Chapter 4: A Universe of Universal Laws: How Light, Matter, and Heat Shape the Cosmos
4.1 Light: The Cosmic Envoy
4.2 Astrophysical Spectra
4.3 Spectra and the World of the Atom
4.4 Telescopes
4.5 Atmospheres and Their Problems
Anatomy of a Discovery
Chapter Summary
Questions and Problems
Chapter 5: Planetary Systems: Their Birth and Architecture
5.1 The Rest of the Solar System
5.2 Just the Facts: A Solar System Census
5.3 And Pluto Too! Asteroids, Comets, Meteoroids, and Dwarf Planets
5.4 Our Solar System and Others
5.5 Developing a Theory of Planetary System Formation
Anatomy of a Discovery
Chapter Summary
Questions and Problems
Chapter 6: Home Base: Earth and the Moon
6.1 Discovering Change: Arctic Crocodiles and the Earth-Moon System
6.2 Earth Inside and Out
6.3 Earth’s Near-Space Environment
6.4 The Closest Desolation: Earth’s Moon
Anatomy of a Discovery
Chapter Summary
Questions and Problems
Chapter 7: Sibling Worlds: Mercury, Venus, and Mars
7.1 Planet Stories
7.2 Mercury: Swift, Small, and Hot
7.3 Venus: Hothouse of the Planets
7.4 Mars: The Red Planet of Change
Anatomy of a Discovery
Chapter Summary
Questions and Problems
Chapter 8: Gas, Ice, and Stone: The Outer Planets
8.1 Giant Planets on a Roll
8.2 The Giant Planets: Structures and Processes
8.3 Jupiter: King of Planets
8.4 Saturn: Lord of the Rings
8.5 Uranus and Neptune: Ice Giants Discovered in Twilight
Anatomy of a Discovery
Chapter Summary
Questions and Problems
Chapter 9: Life and Planets: The Search for Habitable Worlds
9.1 The Origin of Life and a Trip to Antarctica
9.2 What Is Life, and Where Can It Exist?
9.3 The Origins of Life
9.4 Searching for Other Life in the Universe
Anatomy of a Discovery
Chapter Summary
Questions and Problems
Chapter 10: The Sun as a Star: Our Own Fusion Engine
10.1 Living with a Star
10.2 The Sun’s Fusion Furnace
10.3 Moving Energy
10.4 The Active Sun: Photosphere to Corona and Beyond
Anatomy of a Discovery
Chapter Summary
Questions and Problems
Chapter 11: Measuring the Stars: The Main Sequence and its Meaning
11.1 The Life of the Stars
11.2 Measuring Stars
11.3 From Observations to Explanations
11.4 The March of Time: Stellar Evolutionary Tracks
Anatomy of a Discovery
Chapter Summary
Questions and Problems
Chapter 12: Nursery of the Stars: The Interstellar Medium and Star Formation
12.1 Seeing in the Dark
12.2 Anatomy of the Interstellar Medium
12.3 Molecular Clouds: The Birthplace of Stars
12.4 From Cloud to Protostar
12.5 From Protostars to Fusion and Brown Dwarfs
12.6 Stellar Interaction
Anatomy of a Discovery
Chapter Summary
Questions and Problems
Chapter 13: To the Graveyard of Stars: The End Points of Stellar Evolution
13.1 Fireworks in a Galaxy Not So Very Far Away
13.2 How to Become a Giant: The Fate of Low- and Intermediate-Mass Stars
13.3 The Last Hurrah: Planetary Nebulas
13.4 White Dwarfs: Stellar Corpses of the First Kind
13.5 Living Fast, Dying Young: The End of Massive Stars
13.6 Big and Bigger Bangs: Novas and Supernovas
13.7 Neutron Stars: Stellar Corpses of the Second Kind
Anatomy of a Discovery
Chapter Summary
Questions and Problems
Chapter 14: Down the Rabbit Hole: Relativity and Black Holes
14.1 The Black-Hole Shuffle
14.2 Special Theory of Relativity
14.3 General Theory of Relativity
14.4 Anatomy of a Black Hole
14.5 Real Black Holes in Astronomy
Anatomy of a Discovery
Chapter Summary
Questions and Problems
Chapter 15: Our City of Stars: The Milky Way
15.1 A Hard Rain: A New Vision of Galactic Studies
15.2 Anatomy of the Milky Way
15.3 Spiral Arms: Does the Milky Way Have Them?
15.4 The Galactic Center
15.5 Dark Matter and the Milky Way
15.6 Constructing a Galaxy: Evolution of the Milky Way
Anatomy of a Discovery
Chapter Summary
Questions and Problems
Chapter 16: A Universe of Galaxies: Beyond the Milky Way
16.1 The Great Debate and the Scale of the Universe
16.2 Galactic Zoology
16.3 The Cosmic Distance Ladder
16.4 Monsters in the Deep: Active Galactic Nuclei
16.5 Galaxies and Dark Matter
Anatomy of a Discovery
Chapter Summary
Questions and Problems
Chapter 17: The Cosmic Web: The Large-scale Structure of the Universe
17.1 Bright Lights, Big Universe
17.2 Cosmic Neighborhoods: Galaxy Groups and Galaxy Clusters
17.3 Superclusters and Large-Scale Structure
17.4 Large-Scale Cosmic Structure and Cosmic History
17.5 Building Cosmic Structure
Anatomy of a Discovery
Chapter Summary
Questions and Problems
Chapter 18: Endings and Beginnings: Cosmology
18.1 How to Win a Nobel Prize: The Accelerating Universe
18.2 Our Cosmology: The Big Bang
18.3 How Do We Know? The Three Observational Pillars of Big Bang Theory
18.4 Beyond the Classic Big Bang Model
18.5 Questions about “Before” and “Everything”
Anatomy of a Discovery
Chapter Summary
Questions and Problems
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Appendix 3
Appendix 4
Appendix 5
Appendix 6
Appendix 7
Appendix 8
Selected Answers
Glossary
Credits
Index
Endpaper 1
Endpaper 2