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Foundations I: Modern Astronomy
Chapter 1: Discovering the Night Sky
Chapter 2: Gravitation and the Waltz of the Planets
Chapter 3: Light and Telescopes
Chapter 4: The Origin and Nature of Light
Foundations II: The Solar System
Chapter 5: The Earth and its Moon
Chapter 6: The Other Inner Planets
Chapter 7: The Outer Planets
Chapter 8: Vagabonds of the Solar System
Chapter 9: Our Star, the Sun
Foundations III: An Invitation to the Stars
Chapter 10: The Nature of Stars
Chapter 11: The Lives of Stars
Chapter 12: The Deaths of Stars
Chapter 13: Black Holes
Foundations IV: The Universe
Chapter 14: The Milky Way Galaxy
Chapter 15: Galaxies
Chapter 16: Quasars and Active Galaxies
Chapter 17: Cosmology
Chapter 18: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life
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Discovering the Universe, March 1996