The Big Picture

John Beaver is Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the Fox Cities Campus of University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, where he teaches physics, astronomy, photography, and interdisciplinary courses. He earned his B.S. in physics and astronomy in 1985 from Youngstown State University, and his Ph.D. in astronomy in 1992 from Ohio State University. His published work in astronomy is on the topics of spectrophotometry of cometsand gaseous nebulae, and multi-color photometry of star clusters. Beaver is also a fine-art photographer, having exhibited in many juried competitions, and shared and solo exhibitions in Wisconsin, Ohio, New York, Louisiana, Missouri, Oregon, Minnesota, and Colorado. He has long been involved in art-science collaborations (many with artist Judith Baker Waller) in the classroom, at academic conferences, and in art galleries and plan-etaria. He is the author of The Physics and Art of Photography, published in three volumes by Morgan & Claypool Publishers (San Rafael, CA, 2018, 2019). Some of Johns photography can be seen at www.JohnEBphotography.com.

Preface.- Acknowledgments.- Tools for Understanding Space.- Looking Outward.- Looking Inward.- Tools for Understanding Time.- The Present.- The Past.- The Future.- Evolution of the Solar System.- Stellar Evolution.- The Evolution of Galaxies.- Fields.- Waves.- Equilibrium.- The Structure of Energy and Matter.- The Interior Structure of Stars.- The Structure of Galaxies.- Large-Scale Structure of the Universe.- Author's Biography .