Universe

ROGER A. FREEDMAN, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. WILLIAM J. KAUFMANN, late of San Diego State University, USA .

PART I: INTRODUCING ASTRONOMY - Astronomy and the Universe - Knowing the Heavens - Eclipses and the Motion of the Moon - Gravitation and the Waltz of the Planets - The Nature of Light - Optics and Telescopes - PART II: PLANETS AND MOONS - Comparative Planetology I: Our Solar System - Comparative Planetology II: The Origin of Our Solar System - The Living Earth - Our Barren Moon - Mercury, Venus, and Mars: Earthlike Yet Unique - Jupiter and Saturn: Lords of the Planets - Jupiter and Saturn's Satellites of Fire and Ice - Uranus, Neptune, Pluto and the Kuiper Belt: Remote Worlds - Vagabonds of the Solar System - PART III: STARS AND STELLAR EVOLUTION - Our Star, The Sun - The Nature of the Stars - The Birth of Stars - Stellar Evolution: After the Main Sequence - Stellar Evolution: The Deaths of Stars - Neutron Stars - Black Holes - PART IV: GALAXIES AND COSMOLOGY - Our Galaxy - Galaxies - Quasars, Active Galaxies, and Gamma-Ray Bursters - Cosmology: The Origin and Evolution of the Universe - Exploring the Early Universe - The Search for Extraterrestrial Life