Chapter 1: Astronomy and the Universe
Chapter 2: Knowing the Heavens
Chapter 3: Eclipses and the Motion of the Moon
Chapter 4: Gravitation and the Waltz of the Planets
Chapter 5: The Nature of Light
Chapter 6: Optics and Telescopes
Chapter 7: Comparative Planetology I: Our Solar System
Chapter 8: Comparative Planetology II: The Origin of Our solar System
Chapter 9: The Living Earth
Chapter 10: Our Barren Moon
Chapter 11: Mercury, Venus, Mars: Earthlike yet Unique
Chapter 12: Jupiter and Saturn: Lords of the Planets
Chapter 13: Jupiter and Saturn's Satellites of Fire and Ice
Chapter 14: Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, and the Kuiper Belt: Remote Worlds
Chapter 15: Vagabonds of the Solar System
Chapter 16: Our Star, the Sun
Chapter 17: The Nature of Stars
Chapter 18: The Birth of Stars
Chapter 19: Stellar Evolution: On and after the Main Sequence
Chapter 20: Stellar Evolution: The Deaths of Stars
Chapter 21: Neutron Stars
Chapter 22: Black Holes
Chapter 23: Our Galaxy
Chapter 24: Galaxies
Chapter 25: Quasars and Active Galaxies
Chapter 26: Cosmology: The Origin and Evolution of the Universe
Chapter 27: Exploring the Early Universe
Chapter 28: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life
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