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Astronomy
- 點閱：22
- 作者： by Stephen P. Maran
- 出版社：John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
- 出版年：2017
- 集叢名：For dummies
- ISBN：9781119374244
- EISBN：9781119374411 ebk; 9781119374381 ebk
- 格式：EPUB 流式,PDF,JPG
- 附註："Learning made easy"--Cover. Includes index.
Your updated guide to exploring the night sky
Do you know the difference between a red giant and a white dwarf? From asteroids to black holes, this easy-to-understand guide takes you on a grand tour of the universe. Featuring updated star maps, charts, and an insert with gorgeous full-color photographs, Astronomy For Dummies provides an easy-to-follow introduction to exploring the night sky. Plus, this new edition also comes with chapter quizzes online to help your understanding.
For as long as people have been walking the earth, those people have looked up into the night sky and wondered about the nature of the cosmos. Without the benefit of science to provide answers, they relied on myth and superstition to help them make sense of what they saw. Lucky for us, we live at a time when regular folks, equipped with nothing more than their naked eyes, can look up into the night sky and gain admittance to infinite wonders. If you know what to look for, you can make out planets, stars, galaxies, and even galactic clusters comprising hundreds of millions of stars and spanning millions of light-years.
Includes updated schedules of coming eclipses of the Sun and Moon and a revised planetary appendix
Covers recent discoveries in space, such as water on the Moon and Pluto's demotion from 'planet' status
Collects new websites, lists of telescope motels, sky-watching guides, and suggestions for beginner's telescopes and suppliers
Provides free online access to chapter quizzes to help you understand the content
Ever wonder what's out there in the big ol' universe? This is the book for you!
- INTRODUCTION
- About This Book
- Foolish Assumptions
- Icons Used in This Book
- Beyond the Book
- Where to Go from Here
- PART 1 : GETTING STARTED WITH ASTRONOMY
- CHAPTER 1 : Seeing the Light : The Art and Science of Astronomy
- CHAPTER 2 : Join the Crowd : Skywatching Activities and Resources
- CHAPTER 3 : Terrific Tools for Observing the Skies
- CHAPTER 4 : Just Passing Through : Meteors, Comets, and Artificial Satellites
- PART 2 : GOING ONCE AROUND THE SOLAR SYSTEM
- CHAPTER 5 : A Matched Pair : Earth and Its Moon
- CHAPTER 6 : Earth’s Near Neighbors : Mercury, Venus, and Mars
- CHAPTER 7 : Rock On : The Asteroid Belt and Near-Earth Objects
- CHAPTER 8 : Great Balls of Gas : Jupiter and Saturn
- CHAPTER 9 : Far Out! Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, and Beyond
- PART 3 : MEETING OLD SOL AND OTHER STARS
- CHAPTER 10 : The Sun : Star of Earth
- CHAPTER 11 : Taking a Trip to the Stars
- CHAPTER 12 : Galaxies : The Milky Way and Beyond
- CHAPTER 13 : Digging into Black Holes and Quasars
- PART 4 : PONDERING THE REMARKABLE UNIVERSE
- CHAPTER 14 : Is Anybody Out There? SETI and Planets of Other Suns
- CHAPTER 15 : Delving into Dark Matter and Antimatter
- CHAPTER 16 : The Big Bang and the Evolution of the Universe
- PART 5 : THE PART OF TENS
- CHAPTER 17 : Ten Strange Facts about Astronomy and Space
- CHAPTER 18 : Ten Common Errors about Astronomy and Space
- PART 6 : APPENDIXES
- APPENDIX A : Star Maps
- APPENDIX B : Glossary
- INDEX
