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    Astronomy : at play in the cosmos / Adam Frank, University of Rochester ; with contributions by Jeff Bary, Colgate University, Carol Latta, Rochester Academy of Science.

    By: Frank, Adam, 1962-Contributor(s): Bary, Jeff | Latta, Carol (Carol E.)Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2017]Edition: First editionDescription: pages cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780393935226; 0393935221Subject(s): Astronomy -- Popular works | Cosmology -- Popular works | Astronomy | CosmologyGenre/Form: Popular works.DDC classification: 520 LOC classification: QB44.3 | .F73 2017
    Contents:
    Getting started: science, astronomy, and being human -- A universe made, a universe discovered : the night sky and the dawn of astronomy -- A universe of universal laws : from the Copernican revolution to Newton's gravity -- A universe of universal laws : how light, matter, and heat shape the cosmos -- The architecture and birth of planetary systems -- Home base : Earth and the Moon -- Sibling worlds : Mercury, Venus, and Mars -- Gas, ice, and stone : the outer planets -- Life and the search for habitable worlds -- The sun as a star -- Measuring the stars : the main sequence and its meaning -- Nursery of the stars : the interstellar medium and star formation -- To the graveyard of stars : the end points of stellar evolution -- Down the rabbit hole : relativity and black holes -- Our city of stars : the Milky Way -- A universe of galaxies -- The cosmic web : the large-scale structure of the universe -- Endings and beginnings : cosmology.
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    Includes index.

    Part I: Bedrock. -- Getting started: science, astronomy, and being human -- A universe made, a universe discovered : the night sky and the dawn of astronomy -- A universe of universal laws : from the Copernican revolution to Newton's gravity -- A universe of universal laws : how light, matter, and heat shape the cosmos -- Part II: Planets near and far. The architecture and birth of planetary systems -- Home base : Earth and the Moon -- Sibling worlds : Mercury, Venus, and Mars -- Gas, ice, and stone : the outer planets -- Life and the search for habitable worlds -- Part III: A galaxy of stars. -- The sun as a star -- Measuring the stars : the main sequence and its meaning -- Nursery of the stars : the interstellar medium and star formation -- To the graveyard of stars : the end points of stellar evolution -- Down the rabbit hole : relativity and black holes -- Part IV: A universe of galaxies. -- Our city of stars : the Milky Way -- A universe of galaxies -- The cosmic web : the large-scale structure of the universe -- Endings and beginnings : cosmology.

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