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Key Benefit:For onesemester Introduction to Astronomy courses.With Astronomy: A Beginners Guide, Sixth Edition, trusted authors Eric Chaisson and Steve McMillan communicate their excitement about astronomy and awaken readers to the universe around them. Thoroughly updated, the revised edition focuses on the process of scientific discovery and scientific method, making how we know what we know a more integral part of the book with attention to clearly and concisely presenting scientific terms to the nonscience reader. The authors incorporate three themes in this briefer version of their two textbooks; process of science, the size and scale of the universe as well as the evolution of the universe. A Beginners Guide emphasizes critical thinking and visualization, and is now available with a custom tailored leadingedge technology program.The Sixth Edition features an even greater focus on the process of science, MasteringAstronomy, and a dedicated myeBook.Key Topics:Charting the Heavens : The Foundations of Astronomy, The Copernican Revolution: The Birth of Modern Science, Light and Matter: The Inner Workings of the Cosmos, Telescopes: The Tools of Astronomy, The Solar System: Interplanetary Matter and the Birth of the Planets, Earth and Its Moon: Our Cosmic Backyard, The Terrestrial Planets: A Study in Contrasts, The Jovian Planets: Giants of the Solar System, Moons, Rings, and Plutoids: Small Worlds Among Giants, The Sun: Our Parent Star, Measuring the Stars: Giants, Dwarfs, and the Main Sequence, The Interstellar Medium: Star Formation in the Milky Way, Stellar Evolution: The Lives and Deaths of Stars, Neutron Stars and Black Holes: Strange States of Matter, The Milky Way Galaxy: A Spiral in Space,Normal and Active Galaxies: Building Blocks of the Universe, Hubbles Law and Dark Matter: The LargeScale Structure of the Cosmos, Cosmology: The Big Bang and the Fate of the Universe, Life in the Universe: Are We Alone?Market: Intended for those interested in learning the basics of astronomy
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