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General Astronomy[edit | edit source]

General Astronomy
Table of Contents
The Modern View of the Cosmos
The Big Picture
Short History of the Universe
Scientific Notation
The Scientific Method
What People do in Astronomy
Current Unsolved Mysteries
Observational Astronomy
The Celestial Sphere
Phases of the Moon
Eclipses
Daily Motions
Yearly Motions
Coordinate Systems
The Early Origins of Astronomy
The First Physics
Apparent Motions of the Planets
The Heliocentric Model
New Ideas About Motion
Kepler%27s Laws
Motion and Gravity
Properties of Light and other Electromagnetic Radiation
The Spectrum
Basic Astrophysics
Atomic Emission and Absorption
Molecular Emission and Absorption
Thermal Radiation
The Doppler Effect
Telescopes
The Terrestrial Planets
The Jovian Planets
Planetary Moons
Comets
Asteroids
Meteors and Meteorites
The Kuiper Belt
Extrasolar Planets
Formation of the Solar System
Earth%27s Early Years
Formation of the Moon
The Biosphere
The Atmosphere
Earth
Earth%27s Moon
First Steps into Space
The Apollo Missions
The Drake Equation
Life in the Solar System
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
The Sun
Fusion in the Sun
Convective and Radiative Zones
The Photosphere
Solar Activity
Space Weather
Helioseismology
The Solar Cycle
Stars/Introduction
Mass
Luminosity
Temperature
The H-R Diagram
Star Clusters as Cosmic Laboratories
Protostars and Stellar Nurseries
The Life of Low Mass Stars
The Death of Low Mass Stars
The Life of High Mass Stars
The Death of High Mass Stars
Black holes/Introduction
Life of the Black Hole
Black Holes in Hiding
History of the Black Hole
The Theory of the Naked Singularity
Spaghettification
The Milky Way
Types of Galaxies
Galactic Formation
Galactic Evolution
Supermassive Black Holes
Active Galactic Nuclei and Quasars
Introduction and Brief History of Gamma-Ray Bursts
Fluence and Extragalactic Nature
The Distance Ladder
The Big Bang and Cosmic Expansion
The First Three Minutes
An Accelerating Universe
References
Exercises
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