Last edition Elsevier With Astronomy Today, Eighth Edition, trusted authors Eric Chaisson and Steve McMillan communicate their excitement about astronomy, delivering current and thorough science with insightful pedagogy. The text emphasizes critical thinking and visualization, and it focuses on the process of scientific discovery, teaching students “how we know what we know.”
Last Edition
ISBN 13: 9781292057736
Imprint: Pearson Education Limited
Language: English
Authors: Eric Chaisson
Pub Date: 09/2014
Pages: 828
Illus: Illustrated
Weight: 1,710.00 grams
Size: h 218 x 277 mm
Product Type: Softcover
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- • Process of Science Check questions throughout every chapter prompt students to consider how astronomers use various aspects of the process of science in their research. Concept Checks are critical-thinking questions throughout each chapter that prompt students to reflect on the material just presented and to test their mastery of key concepts. Answers are provided in the back of the book.
- • The Big Picture feature on each chapter opening spread explains how chapter content fits in with an overall perspective on introductory astronomy, helping students see how each chapter is connected to a broad understanding of the universe.
- • Chapter 6 (now The Solar System: Comparative Planetology and Formation Scenarios) was significantly reworked to reflect a revised approach to presenting comparative planetology within a planet-by-planet chapter structure.
- • Chapter 15 (now Exoplanets: Planetary Systems Beyond Our Own) has been extensively revamped to reflect our new understanding of exoplanets, debris, asteroids, and the Kuiper belt.
- • A new two-page visual presentation of the timeline of space missions appears in Chapter 6.
- Eric Chaisson received his Ph.D. in astrophysics from Harvard, where he spent 10 years on the faculty; after holding various professorships at Johns Hopkins and Tufts, Eric is back at Harvard teaching and doing research at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He has written 12 books and received a number of literary awards along the way., Steve McMillan received his Ph.D. in astronomy from Harvard and is a professor of physics at Drexel University. He has published more than 100 articles and scientific papers.
- I. ASTRONOMY AND THE UNIVERSE
- 1. Charting the Heavens: The Foundations of Astronomy
- 2. The Copernican Revolution: The Birth of Modern Science
- 3. Radiation: Information from the Cosmos
- 4. Spectroscopy: The Inner Workings of Atoms
- 5. Telescopes: The Tools of Astronomy
- II. OUR PLANETARY SYSTEM
- 6. The Solar System: Comparative Planetology and Formation Models7. Earth: Our Home in Space
- 8. The Moon and Mercury: Scorched and Battered Worlds
- 9. Venus: Earth’s Sister Planet
- 10. Mars: A Near Miss for Life?
- 11. Jupiter: Giant of the Solar System
- 12. Saturn: Spectacular Rings and Mysterious Moons
- 13. Uranus and Neptune: The Outer Worlds of the Solar System
- 14. Solar System Debris: Keys to Our Origin
- 15. Exoplanets: Planetary Systems Beyond Our Own.
- III. STARS AND STELLAR EVOLUTION
- 16. The Sun: Our Parent Star
- 17. The Stars: Giants, Dwarfs, and the Main Sequence
- 18. The Interstellar Medium: Gas and Dust among the Stars
- 19. Star Formation: A Traumatic Birth
- 20. Stellar Evolution: The Life and Death of a Star
- 21. Stellar Explosions: Novae, Supernovae, and the Formation of the Elements
- 22. Neutron Stars and Black Holes: Strange States of Matter
- IV. GALAXIES AND COSMOLOGY
- 23. The Milky Way Galaxy: A Spiral in Space
- 24. Galaxies: Building Blocks of the Universe
- 25. Galaxies and Dark Matter: The Large-Scale Structure of the Cosmos
- 26. Cosmology: The Big Bang and the Fate of the Universe
- 27. The Early Universe: Toward the Beginning of Time
- 28. Life in the Universe: Are We Alone?
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