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目次

1. Introduction; Part I. Properties of Ordinary Stars: 2. Continuousradiation from stars; 3. Spectral Lines in stars; 4. Telescopes; 5. Binarystars and stellar masses; 6. The Sun: a typical star; Part II. Relativity: 7.Special relativity; 8. General relativity; Part III. Stellar Evolution: 9.The main sequence; 10. Stellar old age; 11. The death of high mass stars; 12.Evolution in close binaries; 13. Clusters of stars; Part IV. The Milky Way:14. Contents of the interstellar medium; 15. Star formation; 16. The MilkyWay galaxy; Part V. The Universe at Large: 17. Normal galaxies; 18. Clustersof galaxies; 19. Active galaxies; 20. Cosmology; 21. The Big Bang; Part VI.The Solar System: 22. Overview of the solar system; 23. The Earth and Moon;24. The inner planets; 25. The outer planets; 26. Minor bodies in the solarsystem; 27. The origin of life; Appendices.