The following is a listing of chapters with their titles and (lists of the sorts of science concepts each contains, except where the title says it all), with links.
Chapter 1: The Scale of the Cosmos (units and measurement) |
Chapter 2: The Sky (celestial sphere and motions) |
Chapter 3: Lunar Tides, Phases, and Eclipses |
Chapter 4: The Origin of Modern Astronomy (from earliest times to Copernicus, Tycho, and Kepler) |
Chapter 5: Newton, Einstein, and Gravity (Galileo's Laws, Newton's Laws, Orbital Motion, Relativity!) |
Chapter 6: Light and Telescopes (ROYGBIV, optics, atmospheric windows, neat telescope facts) |
Chapter 7: Starlight and Atoms (Wien's Law, blackbody radiation, how spectra are created, Kirchoff's laws, spectral types and the Balmer thermometer) |
Chapter 8: The Sun -- Our Star |
Chapter 9: Measuring Stars (trigonometric parallax, distance modulus, the H-R diagram, spectroscopic parallax) |
Chapter 10: Binary Stars (and finding stellar masses directly) |
Chapter 11: The Interstellar Medium (21-cm radiation, densities, molecules, great visuals!) |
Chapter 12: The Formation of Stars |
Chapter 13: The Life Cycles of Stars |
Chapter 14: The Deaths of Stars |
Chapter 15: Neutron Stars, Black Holes, etc. |
Chapter 16: The Milky Way -- Our Galaxy |
Chapter 17: Other Galaxies |
Chapter 18: Peculiar Galaxies |
Chapter 19: Cosmology and the Big Bang |
Chapter 20: Origin of the Solar System |
Chapter 21: The Earth |
Chapter 22: The Moon and Mercury |
Chapter 23: Venus and Mars |
Chapter 24: Jupiter and Saturn |
Chapter 25: Uranus, Neptune, Pluto |
Chapter 26: Meteorites, Asteroids, and Comets |