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McGraw-Hill Higher Education
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Long Now Manual for Civilization, Astronomy, Astronomía

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Table of Contents

Preview : The cosmic landscape
The cycles of the sky
The rise of astronomy
Essay 1 : Backyard astronomy
Gravity and motion
Light and atoms
Essay 2 : Special and general relativity
Telescopes
The Earth
Essay 3 : Keeping time
The moon
Survey of solar systems
The terrestrial planets
The outer planets
Meteors, asteroids, and comets
The sun, our star
Measuring the properties of stars
Stellar evolution
Stellar remnants : white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes
The Milky Way galaxy
Galaxies
Cosmology
Essay 4 : Life in the universe
Answers to test yourself
Appendix. Scientific notation
Some useful formulas
Solving distance, velocity, time (d, V, t) problems
Glossary

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xxii, 571 p.
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0078935474
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Astronomy is the study of the heavens, the realm extending from beyond the Earth's atmosphere to the most distant reaches of the Universe.
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