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The scale fo the cosmos. Unit I: The sky. The earth and sky. Lunar phases, tides and eclipses. The origin of modern astronomy. Newton, Einstein, and gravity. Light and telescopes. Unit II: The stars. Starlight and atoms. The sun - our star. Measuring stars. Binary stars. The formation of stars. Stellar evolution. The deaths of stars. Neurtron Stars and black holes. Unit III: The universe. The milky way. Galazies. Peculiar galazies. Cosmology. Unit IV: The solar system. Planet earth. The moon and mercury: Airless worlds. Venus and Mars. Jupiter and Saturn. Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. Meteroites, asteroids, and comets. Unit V: life. Life on other worlds. Afterword. Appendices. Glossary. Answers to even-numbered problems. Index. Supplement observing the sky (star charts).