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I. FOUNDATIONS 0. Charting the Heavens: The Foundations of Astronomy 1. The Copernican Revolution: The Birth of Modern Science 2. Light and Matter: The Inner Workings of the Cosmos 3. Telescopes: The Tools of Astronomy II. OUR PLANETARY SYSTEM 4. The Solar System: Interplanetary Matter and the Birth of the Planets 5. Earth and Its Moon: Our Cosmic Backyard 6. The Terrestrial Planets: A Study in Contrasts 7. The Jovian Planets: Giants of the Solar System 8. Moons, Rings, and Plutoids: Small Worlds Among Giants III. THE STARS 9. The Sun: Our Parent Star 10. Measuring the Stars: Giants, Dwarfs, and the Main Sequence 11. The Interstellar Medium: Star Formation in the Milky Way 12. Stellar Evolution: The Lives and Deaths of Stars 13. Neutron Stars and Black Holes: Strange States of Matter IV. GALAXIES AND THE UNIVERSE 14. The Milky Way Galaxy: A Spiral in Space 15. Normal and Active Galaxies: Building Blocks of the Universe 16. Hubble’s Law and Dark Matter: The Large-Scale Structure of the Cosmos 17. Cosmology: The Big Bang and the Fate of the Universe 18. Life in the Universe: Are We Alone?
