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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:

  1. Chapter 1: Getting Started: Science, Astronomy, and Being Human
  2. 1.1 Miles Apart and Years Between
  3. 1.2 Very, Very Old and Really, Really Big
  4. 1.3 The Contents and Story of the Cosmos
  5. 1.4 Why Science?
  6. 1.5 Science, Politics, and the Human Prospect on a Changing Planet
  7. Anatomy of a Discovery
  8. Chapter Summary
  9. Questions and Problems
  10. Chapter 2: A Universe Made, a Universe Discovered: The Night Sky and the Dawn of Astronomy
  11. 2.1 An Old Obsession
  12. 2.2 Dance of Night and Day: Basic Motions of the Sky
  13. 2.3 Monthly Changes of the Moon
  14. 2.4 Celestial Wanderers: The Motion of Planets
  15. 2.5 Stone and Myth: Astronomy Begins
  16. 2.6 The Greek Advancement of Science
  17. Anatomy of a Discovery
  18. Chapter Summary
  19. Questions and Problems
  20. Chapter 3: A Universe of Universal Laws: From the Copernican Revolution to Newton’s Gravity
  21. 3.1 Getting Past Ptolemy: The Copernican Revolution
  22. 3.2 Planets, Politics, and the Observations of Tycho Brahe
  23. 3.3 Kepler and the Laws of Planetary Motion
  24. 3.4 Galileo Invents New Sciences
  25. 3.5 Newton and the Universal Laws of Motion
  26. Anatomy of a Discovery
  27. Chapter Summary
  28. Questions and Problems
  29. Chapter 4: A Universe of Universal Laws: How Light, Matter, and Heat Shape the Cosmos
  30. 4.1 Light: The Cosmic Envoy
  31. 4.2 Astrophysical Spectra
  32. 4.3 Spectra and the World of the Atom
  33. 4.4 Telescopes
  34. 4.5 Atmospheres and Their Problems
  35. Anatomy of a Discovery
  36. Chapter Summary
  37. Questions and Problems
  38. Chapter 5: Planetary Systems: Their Birth and Architecture
  39. 5.1 The Rest of the Solar System
  40. 5.2 Just the Facts: A Solar System Census
  41. 5.3 And Pluto Too! Asteroids, Comets, Meteoroids, and Dwarf Planets
  42. 5.4 Our Solar System and Others
  43. 5.5 Developing a Theory of Planetary System Formation
  44. Anatomy of a Discovery
  45. Chapter Summary
  46. Questions and Problems
  47. Chapter 6: Home Base: Earth and the Moon
  48. 6.1 Discovering Change: Arctic Crocodiles and the Earth-Moon System
  49. 6.2 Earth Inside and Out
  50. 6.3 Earth’s Near-Space Environment
  51. 6.4 The Closest Desolation: Earth’s Moon
  52. Anatomy of a Discovery
  53. Chapter Summary
  54. Questions and Problems
  55. Chapter 7: Sibling Worlds: Mercury, Venus, and Mars
  56. 7.1 Planet Stories
  57. 7.2 Mercury: Swift, Small, and Hot
  58. 7.3 Venus: Hothouse of the Planets
  59. 7.4 Mars: The Red Planet of Change
  60. Anatomy of a Discovery
  61. Chapter Summary
  62. Questions and Problems
  63. Chapter 8: Gas, Ice, and Stone: The Outer Planets
  64. 8.1 Giant Planets on a Roll
  65. 8.2 The Giant Planets: Structures and Processes
  66. 8.3 Jupiter: King of Planets
  67. 8.4 Saturn: Lord of the Rings
  68. 8.5 Uranus and Neptune: Ice Giants Discovered in Twilight
  69. Anatomy of a Discovery
  70. Chapter Summary
  71. Questions and Problems
  72. Chapter 9: Life and Planets: The Search for Habitable Worlds
  73. 9.1 The Origin of Life and a Trip to Antarctica
  74. 9.2 What Is Life, and Where Can It Exist?
  75. 9.3 The Origins of Life
  76. 9.4 Searching for Other Life in the Universe
  77. Anatomy of a Discovery
  78. Chapter Summary
  79. Questions and Problems
  80. Chapter 10: The Sun as a Star: Our Own Fusion Engine
  81. 10.1 Living with a Star
  82. 10.2 The Sun’s Fusion Furnace
  83. 10.3 Moving Energy
  84. 10.4 The Active Sun: Photosphere to Corona and Beyond
  85. Anatomy of a Discovery
  86. Chapter Summary
  87. Questions and Problems
  88. Chapter 11: Measuring the Stars: The Main Sequence and its Meaning
  89. 11.1 The Life of the Stars
  90. 11.2 Measuring Stars
  91. 11.3 From Observations to Explanations
  92. 11.4 The March of Time: Stellar Evolutionary Tracks
  93. Anatomy of a Discovery
  94. Chapter Summary
  95. Questions and Problems
  96. Chapter 12: Nursery of the Stars: The Interstellar Medium and Star Formation
  97. 12.1 Seeing in the Dark
  98. 12.2 Anatomy of the Interstellar Medium
  99. 12.3 Molecular Clouds: The Birthplace of Stars
  100. 12.4 From Cloud to Protostar
  101. 12.5 From Protostars to Fusion and Brown Dwarfs
  102. 12.6 Stellar Interaction
  103. Anatomy of a Discovery
  104. Chapter Summary
  105. Questions and Problems
  106. Chapter 13: To the Graveyard of Stars: The End Points of Stellar Evolution
  107. 13.1 Fireworks in a Galaxy Not So Very Far Away
  108. 13.2 How to Become a Giant: The Fate of Low- and Intermediate-Mass Stars
  109. 13.3 The Last Hurrah: Planetary Nebulas
  110. 13.4 White Dwarfs: Stellar Corpses of the First Kind
  111. 13.5 Living Fast, Dying Young: The End of Massive Stars
  112. 13.6 Big and Bigger Bangs: Novas and Supernovas
  113. 13.7 Neutron Stars: Stellar Corpses of the Second Kind
  114. Anatomy of a Discovery
  115. Chapter Summary
  116. Questions and Problems
  117. Chapter 14: Down the Rabbit Hole: Relativity and Black Holes
  118. 14.1 The Black-Hole Shuffle
  119. 14.2 Special Theory of Relativity
  120. 14.3 General Theory of Relativity
  121. 14.4 Anatomy of a Black Hole
  122. 14.5 Real Black Holes in Astronomy
  123. Anatomy of a Discovery
  124. Chapter Summary
  125. Questions and Problems
  126. Chapter 15: Our City of Stars: The Milky Way
  127. 15.1 A Hard Rain: A New Vision of Galactic Studies
  128. 15.2 Anatomy of the Milky Way
  129. 15.3 Spiral Arms: Does the Milky Way Have Them?
  130. 15.4 The Galactic Center
  131. 15.5 Dark Matter and the Milky Way
  132. 15.6 Constructing a Galaxy: Evolution of the Milky Way
  133. Anatomy of a Discovery
  134. Chapter Summary
  135. Questions and Problems
  136. Chapter 16: A Universe of Galaxies: Beyond the Milky Way
  137. 16.1 The Great Debate and the Scale of the Universe
  138. 16.2 Galactic Zoology
  139. 16.3 The Cosmic Distance Ladder
  140. 16.4 Monsters in the Deep: Active Galactic Nuclei
  141. 16.5 Galaxies and Dark Matter
  142. Anatomy of a Discovery
  143. Chapter Summary
  144. Questions and Problems
  145. Chapter 17: The Cosmic Web: The Large-scale Structure of the Universe
  146. 17.1 Bright Lights, Big Universe
  147. 17.2 Cosmic Neighborhoods: Galaxy Groups and Galaxy Clusters
  148. 17.3 Superclusters and Large-Scale Structure
  149. 17.4 Large-Scale Cosmic Structure and Cosmic History
  150. 17.5 Building Cosmic Structure
  151. Anatomy of a Discovery
  152. Chapter Summary
  153. Questions and Problems
  154. Chapter 18: Endings and Beginnings: Cosmology
  155. 18.1 How to Win a Nobel Prize: The Accelerating Universe
  156. 18.2 Our Cosmology: The Big Bang
  157. 18.3 How Do We Know? The Three Observational Pillars of Big Bang Theory
  158. 18.4 Beyond the Classic Big Bang Model
  159. 18.5 Questions about “Before” and “Everything”
  160. Anatomy of a Discovery
  161. Chapter Summary
  162. Questions and Problems
  163. Appendix 1
  164. Appendix 2
  165. Appendix 3
  166. Appendix 4
  167. Appendix 5
  168. Appendix 6
  169. Appendix 7
  170. Appendix 8
  171. Selected Answers
  172. Glossary
  173. Credits
  174. Index
  175. Endpaper 1
  176. Endpaper 2

 

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