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| Preface | |
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| The Ancient Sky | |
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| Mayan Venus Tables | |
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| Proof That the Earth Is a Sphere | |
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| Celestial Surveying | |
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| Measuring the Earth's Circumference | |
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| Precession of the Equinoxes | |
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| Ptolemy'sAlmagest | |
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| Revolutions | |
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| Copernicus and the Sun-Centered Universe | |
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| Tycho Brahe and the Changing Heavens | |
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| Johannes Kepler and Planetary Motion | |
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| Galileo Initiates the Telescopic Era | |
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| Newton's Universal Law of Gravity | |
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| Halley's Comet | |
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| Binary Stars | |
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| Taking Measure | |
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| The Speed of Light | |
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| The Solar System's Origin | |
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| Discovery of Uranus | |
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| Stars Moving and Changing | |
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| The First Asteroid | |
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| Distance to a Star | |
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| Discovery of Neptune | |
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| The Shape of the Milky Way | |
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| Spiraling Nebulae | |
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| Touching the Heavens | |
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| Spectral Lines | |
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| Deciphering the Solar Spectrum | |
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| Gaseous Nebulae | |
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| Doppler Shifts and Spectroscopic Binaries | |
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| Classification of the Stars | |
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| Giant Stars and Dwarf Stars | |
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| Hydrogen: The Prime Element | |
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| Stellar Mass, Luminosity, and Stability | |
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| Sunspot Cycle, Sun/Earth Connection, and Helium | |
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| Origin of Meteors and Shooting Stars | |
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| Cosmic Rays | |
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| Discovery of Pluto | |
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| Einsteinian Cosmos | |
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| Special Relativity and E = mc2 | |
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| General Relativity and the Solar Eclipse Test | |
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| Relativistic Models of the Universe | |
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| Big Bang Versus Steady State | |
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| White Dwarf Stars | |
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| Beyond the White Dwarf | |
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| Supernovae and Neutron Stars | |
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| Black Holes | |
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| Source of Stellar Power | |
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| Creating Elements in the Big Bang | |
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| Cosmic Microwave Background Predicted | |
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| Creating Elements in the Stars | |
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| A Star's Life Cycle | |
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| The Milky Way and Beyond | |
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| Cepheids: The Cosmic Standard Candles | |
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| Sun's Place in the Milky Way | |
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| Dark Nebulae and Interstellar Matter | |
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| Discovery of Other Galaxies | |
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| Expansion of the Universe | |
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| Stellar Populations and Resizing the Universe | |
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| Mapping the Milky Way's Spiral Arms | |
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| Source and Composition of Comets | |
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| New Eyes, New Universe | |
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| Radio Astronomy | |
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| Interstellar Hydrogen | |
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| Molecules in Space | |
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| Van Allen Radiation Belts | |
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| Geology of Mars | |
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| Extrasolar X-Ray Sources | |
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| Quasars | |
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| Evidence for the Big Bang | |
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| Pulsars | |
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| The Infrared Sky and the Galactic Center | |
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| Neutrino Astronomy | |
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| Gamma-Ray Bursts | |
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| Binary Pulsar and Gravity Waves | |
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| Accelerating Outward | |
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| Dark Matter | |
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| Gravitational Lensing | |
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| Inflation | |
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| The Bubbly Universe | |
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| Galaxy Evolution and the Hubble Deep Field | |
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| Extrasolar Planets | |
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| The Accelerating Universe Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Index | |