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Solution Manual for The Cosmos Astronomy in the New Millennium, 5th Edition, Jay M. Pasachoff, Alex Filippenko

Table of Contents

Preface

About the authors

1. A grand tour of the heavens

2. Light, matter, and energy: powering the Universe

3. Light and telescopes: extending our senses

4. Observing the stars and planets: clockwork of the Universe

5. Gravitation and motion: the early history of astronomy

6. The terrestrial planets: Earth, Moon, and their relatives

7. The Jovian planets: windswept giants

8. Pluto, comets, and space debris

9. Our Solar System and others

10. Our star: the Sun

11. Stars: distant suns

12. How the stars shine: cosmic furnaces

13. The death of stars: recycling

14. Black holes: the end of space and time

15. The Milky Way: our home in the Universe

16. A universe of galaxies

17. Quasars and active galaxies

18. Cosmology: the birth and life of the cosmos

19. In the beginning

20. Life in the Universe

Epilogue

Appendices

Selected readings

Glossary

Index.

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