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Finding Our Place in Space | |
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Naked Sky, Naked Eye: Finding Your Way in the Dark | |
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Sun Days | |
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Flat Earth, Big Bowl | |
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Celestial Portraits | |
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Who Cares? | |
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Ancient Evenings: The First Watchers | |
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A Dragon Eats the Sun: Ancient Chinese Astronomy | |
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Babylon Revisited | |
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Egypt Looks | |
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Stonehenge and the New World | |
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Grecian Formula | |
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The Unexplained Motions of the Heavens | |
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Time on Our Hands | |
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The Sun Goes Dark, the Moon Becomes Blood | |
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Aristotle Lays Down the Law | |
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Ptolemy's Picture | |
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Night Falls | |
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Astronomy Reborn: 1543-1687 | |
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Arabian Nights | |
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Heresy of a Polish Priest | |
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The Man with the Golden Nose | |
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Kepler Makes Sense of It | |
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Galileo's Eye | |
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Holding It All Together | |
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Now You See It (Now You Don't) | |
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The Art of Collecting Light (with a Telescope) | |
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Slice of Light | |
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Buckets of Light | |
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Size Matters | |
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Twinkle, Twinkle | |
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You and Your Telescope | |
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Do I Really Need a Telescope? | |
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Science Aside, What Will It Cost? | |
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Decisions, Decisions | |
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The Go-To Revolution | |
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I've Bought My Telescope, Now What? | |
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Learning to See | |
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Over the Rainbow | |
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Making Waves | |
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Full Spectrum | |
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Heavenly Scoop | |
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Seeing in the Dark | |
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Dark Doesn't Mean You Can't See | |
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What Radio Astronomers "See" | |
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You Can Do This, Too! | |
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The Rest of the Spectrum | |
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Space Race: From Sputnik to the International Space Station | |
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This Really Is Rocket Science | |
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Early Human Missions | |
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Satellites and Probes | |
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JFK's Challenge | |
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Planetary Probes | |
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Space Shuttles and Space Stations | |
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International Space Station: The Latest | |
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A Walk Around the Block | |
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The Moon: Our Closest Neighbor | |
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What If We Had No Moon? | |
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Lunar Looking | |
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It's a Moon! | |
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Green Cheese? | |
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Solar System Home Movie | |
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Solar System History | |
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From Contraction to Condensation | |
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Whipping Up the Recipe | |
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Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust | |
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Solar System Family Snapshot | |
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A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: Let's Take a Stroll | |
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The Inner and Outer Circles | |
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Serving Up the Leftovers | |
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Anatomy of a Comet | |
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Catch a Falling Star | |
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So Close and Yet So Far: The Inner Planets | |
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The Terrestrial Roster | |
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Mercury: The Moon's Twin | |
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Forecast for Venus: "Hot, Overcast, and Dense" | |
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The Earth: Just Right | |
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Mars: "That Looks Like New Mexico!" | |
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Where to Next? | |
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Great Balls of Gas! The Outer Planets | |
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The Jovian Line-Up | |
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Rotation: A New Twist | |
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Stormy Weather | |
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Saturnine Atmosphere | |
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The Atmospheres of Uranus and Neptune | |
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Inside the Jovians | |
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The Jovian Magnetospheres | |
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The Far End of the Block | |
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Lord of the Rings | |
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On the Shoulders of Giants | |
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Faraway Moons | |
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Pluto Found | |
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To the Stars | |
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Our Star | |
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The Solar Furnace | |
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The Solar Atmosphere | |
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Fun in the Sun | |
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At the Core | |
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Of Giants and Dwarfs: Stepping Out into the Stars | |
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Sizing Them Up | |
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The Parallax Principle | |
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Do Stars Move? | |
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How Bright Is Bright? | |
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How Hot Is Hot? | |
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Stellar Pigeonholes | |
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From Giants to Dwarfs: Sorting the Stars by Size | |
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Making the Main Sequence | |
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Stellar Careers | |
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A Star Evolves | |
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Stellar Nursing Homes | |
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The Life and Death of a High-Mass Star | |
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Supernova: So Long, See You in the Next Star | |
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Neutron Stars | |
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I Can't Stop! | |
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Black Holes: One-Way Tickets to Eternity | |
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Is There No End to This Pressure? | |
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Relativity | |
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Thought Experiments | |
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Black-Hole Evidence | |
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Stellar Nurseries | |
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An Interstellar Atlas | |
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Star Light, Star Bright | |
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The Interstellar Medium: One Big Fuel Tank | |
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Multiple Births | |
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In the Delivery Room | |
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Way Out of This World | |
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The Milky Way: Much More Than a Candy Bar | |
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Where Is the Center and Where Are We? | |
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Home Sweet Galaxy | |
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Measuring the Milky Way | |
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Milky Way Portrait | |
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Dark Matters | |
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A Galaxy of Galaxies | |
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Sorting Out the Galaxies | |
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Galactic Embrace | |
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How to "Weigh" a Galaxy | |
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Let's Get Organized | |
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Where Does It All Go? | |
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Moving Out of Town | |
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A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far, Far Away | |
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Quasars: Looks Can Be Deceiving | |
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Quasars and the Evolution of Galaxies | |
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A Piece of the Action | |
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Where It All Starts | |
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The Big Questions | |
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Table for One? | |
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What Do You Mean by "Alone"? | |
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The Odds for Life on Mars | |
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Hello! Is Anybody Out There? | |
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A Closer Look at the Equation | |
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Where Are the Little Green Men? | |
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What About the Big Bang? | |
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The Work of the Cosmologist | |
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I'll Give You Two Clues | |
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Same Old Same Old | |
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So What Was the Big Bang? | |
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(How) Will It End? | |
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What the Redshift Means | |
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What Does It All Mean? | |
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We Have a Problem | |
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Coming Full Circle | |
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Appendixes | |
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Star Words Glossary | |
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Upcoming Eclipses | |
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The Constellations | |
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The Messier Catalog | |
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Sources for Astronomers | |
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Index | |