Test Bank for Astronomy Today, 7th Edition : Chaisson

Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0321691431
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0321691439
• Author: Eric Chaisson

With Astronomy Today, Seventh Edition, trusted authors Eric Chaisson and Steve McMillan communicate their excitement about astronomy and awaken you to the universe around you. The text emphasizes critical thinking and visualization, and it focuses on the process of scientific discovery, making “how we know what we know” an integral part of the text. The revised edition has been thoroughly updated with the latest astronomical discoveries and theories, and it has been streamlined to keep you focused on the essentials and to develop an understanding of the “big picture.”

Table contents:

PART ONE | Astronomy and the Universe 1
	1	Charting the Heavens: The Foundations of Astronomy 2
	2	The Copernican Revolution: The Birth of Modern Science 32
	3	Radiation: Information from the Cosmos 60
	4	Spectroscopy: The Inner Workings of Atoms 82
	5	Telescopes: The Tools of Astronomy 104
PART TWO | Our Planetary System 140
	6	The Solar System: An Introduction to Comparative Planetology 142
	7	Earth: Our Home in Space 168
	8	The Moon and Mercury: Scorched and Battered Worlds 198
	9	Venus: Earth's Sister Planet 228
	10	Mars: A Near Miss for Life? 250
	11	Jupiter: Giant of the Solar System 274
	12	Saturn: Spectacular Rings and Mysterious Moons 302
13	Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto: The Outer Worlds of the Solar System 328
	14	Solar System Debris: Keys to Our Origin 354
15	The Formation of Planetary Systems: The Solar System and Beyond 382
PART THREE | Stars and Stellar Evolution 402
	16	The Sun: Our Parent Star 404
	17	Red Giants and White Dwarfs: A Field Guide to the Stars 436
	18	The Interstellar Medium: Gas and Dust among the Stars 466
	19	Star Formation: A Traumatic Birth 488
	20	Stellar Evolution: The Life and Death of a Star 514
21	Stellar Explosions: Novae, Supernovae, and the Formation of the 
Elements 542
	22	Neutron Stars and Black Holes: Strange States of Matter 566
PART FOUR | Galaxies and Cosmology 600
	23	Galaxies and Cosmology: A Spiral in Space 602
	24	Normal and Active Galaxies: Building Blocks of the Universe 632
25	Galaxies and Dark Matter: The Large-Scale Structure of the Cosmos 666
	26	Cosmology: The Big Bang and the Fate of the Universe 692
	27	The Early Universe: Toward the Beginning of Time 716
	28	Life in the Universe: Are We Alone? 742

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