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With the Eighth Edition of Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide, trusted authors Eric Chaisson and Steve McMillan bring a renewed freshness and analysis to recent changes in our understanding of the cosmos. As with the other two books in their Astronomy suite (one for two-semester courses and the other, a brief visual book), the authors continue to emphasize three major themes: the process of science, the size and scale of the universe, and the evolution of the cosmos. This new edition ignites reader interest with new discoveries from the latest space missions and a new focus on reader-oriented engagement.

KEY TOPICS: FOUNDATIONS: 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; OUR PLANETARY SYSTEM: 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 STARS: 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; GALAXIES AND THE UNIVERSE: The Milky Way Galaxy: A Spiral in Space; Normal and Active Galaxies: Building Blocks of the Universe; Hubble's Law and Dark Matter: The Large-Scale Structure of the Cosmos; Cosmology: The Big Bang and the Fate of the Universe; Life in the Universe: Are We Alone?

MARKET: For all readers interested in introductory astronomy.

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About the Author: Eric Chaisson holds a doctorate in astrophysics from Harvard University, where he spent 10 years on the faculty of Arts and Sciences. For more than two decades thereafter, he served on the senior science staff at the Space Telescope Science Institute and held various professorships at Johns Hopkins and Tufts universities. He is now back at Harvard, where he teaches and conducts research at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Eric has written 12 books on astronomy and has published nearly 200 scientific papers in professional journals.

Steve McMillan holds a bachelor's and master's degree in mathematics from Cambridge University and a doctorate in astronomy from Harvard University. He held postdoctoral positions at the University of Illinois and Northwestern University, where he continued his research in theoretical astrophysics, star clusters, and high-performance computing. Steve is currently Distinguished Professor of Physics at Drexel University and a frequent visiting researcher at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study and Leiden University. He has published more than 100 articles and scientific papers in professional journals.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780134054728
  • Publisher: Pearson
  • Publisher Imprint: Pearson
  • Depth: 13
  • Height: 274 mm
  • No of Pages: 576
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe
  • Width: 244 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0134054725
  • Publisher Date: 07 Jan 2016
  • Binding: Mixed media product
  • Edition: 8 PCK PAP/
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 20 mm
  • Weight: 1386 gr


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