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TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREVIEW The Cosmic Landscape

CHAPTER 1 The Cycles of the Sky

CHAPTER 2 The Rise of Astronomy

CHAPTER 3 Gravity and Motion

CHAPTER 4 Light and Atoms

CHAPTER 5 Telescopes

CHAPTER 6 The Earth

CHAPTER 7 The Moon

CHAPTER 8 Survey of the Solar System

CHAPTER 9 The Terrestrial Planets

CHAPTER 10 The Outer Planets

CHAPTER 11 Small Bodies Orbiting the Sun

CHAPTER 12 The Sun, Our Star

CHAPTER 13 Measuring the Properties of Stars

CHAPTER 14 Stellar Evolution

CHAPTER 15 Stellar Remnants: White Dwarfs, Neutron Stars, and Black Holes

CHAPTER 16 The Milky Way Galaxy

CHAPTER 17 Galaxies

CHAPTER 18 Cosmology

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