Stars and Galaxies

Front Cover
Title Page
Copyright
	Brief Contents
Contents
Part 1: Exploring the Sky
	Chapter 1 | Here and Now
		1-1 WHERE ARE YOU?
		1-2 WHEN IS NOW?
		1-3 WHY STUDY ASTRONOMY?
	Chapter 2 | The Sky
		2-1 THE STARS
		2-2 THE SKY AND ITS MOTION
		2-3 THE CYCLES OF THE SUN
		2-4 ASTRONOMICAL INFLUENCES ON EARTH’S CLIMATE
	Chapter 3 | Cycles of the Moon
		3-1 THE CHANGEABLE MOON
		3-2 LUNAR ECLIPSES
		3-3 SOLAR ECLIPSES
		3-4 PREDICTING ECLIPSES
	Chapter 4 | The Origin of Modern Astronomy
		4-1 THE ROOTS OF ASTRONOMY
		4-2 THE COPERNICAN REVOLUTION
		4-3 PLANETARY MOTION
		4-4 GALILEO GALILEI
		4-5 MODERN ASTRONOMY
	Chapter 5 | Gravity
		5-1 GALILEO AND NEWTON
		5-2 ORBITAL MOTION AND TIDES
		5-3 EINSTEIN AND RELATIVITY
	Chapter 6 | Light and Telescopes
		6-1 RADIATION: INFORMATION FROM SPACE
		6-2 OPTICAL TELESCOPES
		6-3 SPECIAL INSTRUMENTS
		6-4 RADIO TELESCOPES
		6-5 ASTRONOMY FROM SPACE
Part 2: The Stars
	Chapter 7 | Atoms and Starlight
		7-1 ATOMS
		7-2 THE INTERACTION OF LIGHT AND MATTER
		7-3 STELLAR SPECTRA
	Chapter 8 | The Sun
		8-1 THE SOLAR ATMOSPHERE
		8-2 NUCLEAR FUSION IN THE SUN
		8-3 SOLAR ACTIVITY
	Chapter 9 | The Family of Stars
		9-1 MEASURING THE DISTANCES TO STARS
		9-2 APPARENT BRIGHTNESS, INTRINSIC BRIGHTNESS, AND LUMINOSITY
		9-3 THE DIAMETERS OF STARS
		9-4 THE MASSES OF STARS
		9-5 A CENSUS OF THE STARS
	Chapter 10 | The Interstellar Medium
		10-1 STUDYING THE INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM
		10-2 COMPONENTS OF THE INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM
		10-3 THE GAS-STAR-GAS CYCLE
	Chapter 11 | The Formation and Structure of Stars
		11-1 MAKING STARS FROM THE INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM
		11-2 THE ORION NEBULA: EVIDENCE OF STAR FORMATION
		11-3 YOUNG STELLAR OBJECTS AND PROTOSTELLAR DISKS
		11-4 STELLAR STRUCTURE
		11-5 THE SOURCE OF STELLAR ENERGY
		11-6 THE PRESSURE-TEMPERATURE THERMOSTAT
	Chapter 12 | Stellar Evolution
		12-1 MAIN-SEQUENCE STARS
		12-2 POST-MAIN-SEQUENCE EVOLUTION
		12-3 STAR CLUSTERS: EVIDENCE OF EVOLUTION
		12-4 VARIABLE STARS: EVIDENCE OF EVOLUTION
	Chapter 13 | The Deaths of Stars
		13-1 LOWER-MAIN-SEQUENCE STARS
		13-2 THE EVOLUTION OF BINARY STARS
		13-3 THE DEATHS OF MASSIVE STARS
	Chapter 14 | Neutron Stars and Black Holes
		14-1 NEUTRON STARS
		14-2 BLACK HOLES
		14-3 COMPACT OBJECTS WITH DISKS AND JETS
Part 3: The Part 3 The Universe
	Chapter 15 | The Milky Way Galaxy
		15-1 THE DISCOVERY OF THE GALAXY
		15-2 STRUCTURE OF THE GALAXY
		15-3 SPIRAL ARMS AND STAR FORMATION
		15-4 THE NUCLEUS
		15-5 ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF THE GALAXY
	Chapter 16 | Galaxies
		16-1 THE FAMILY OF GALAXIES
		16-2 MEASURING THE PROPERTIES OF GALAXIES
		16-3 THE EVOLUTION OF GALAXIES
	Chapter 17 | Active Galaxies and Supermassive Black Holes
		17-1 ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI
		17-2 SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLES
	Chapter 18 | Modern Cosmology
		18-1 INTRODUCTION TO THE UNIVERSE
		18-2 THE BIG BANG THEORY
		18-3 SPACE AND TIME, MATTER AND ENERGY
		18-4 21ST-CENTURY COSMOLOGY
Part 4: Life
	Chapter 19 | Astrobiology: Life on Other Worlds
		19-1 THE NATURE OF LIFE
		19-2 LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE
		19-3 INTELLIGENT LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE
AFTERWORD
APPENDIX A: UNITS AND ASTRONOMICAL DATA
APPENDIX B: OBSERVING THE SKY
GLOSSARY
ANSWERS TO EVEN-NUMBERED PROBLEMS
INDEX
Copyright
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
Chapter 1: ‘I’m thinking’ – Oh, but are you?
Chapter 2: Renegade perception
Chapter 3: The Pushbacker sting
Chapter 4: ‘Covid’: The calculated catastrophe
Chapter 5: There is no ‘virus’
Chapter 6: Sequence of deceit
Chapter 7: War on your mind
Chapter 8: ‘Reframing’ insanity
Chapter 9: We must have it? So what is it?
Chapter 10: Human 2.0
Chapter 11: Who controls the Cult?
Chapter 12: Escaping Wetiko
Postscript
Appendix: Cowan-Kaufman-Morell Statement on Virus Isolation
Bibliography
Index