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What's Up with Astronomy? (Paperback)
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What's Up with Astronomy? (Paperback)
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Designed to help students better understand how science works and
how it impacts their daily lives, What's Up with Astronomy?
provides readers with an illuminating discussion of how astronomy
became a science, the lived experiences and contributions of key
astronomers throughout time, and how modern scientific theories are
questioned and checked. The opening chapter illustrates how Earth's
rotation gives us the day, Earth's orbit gives us the year, Earth's
tilt gives us the seasons, and the moon's orbit gives us the
month-immediately showing students how astronomy influences our
everyday lives. Additional chapters cover early discoveries
regarding planets, the composition of light, using telescopes, what
stars are made of and how they move, what we know about the sun,
and the power of stars. Students learn about the life cycles of
stars, neutron stars, black holes, the Milky Way, galaxies,
cosmology, and planet formation. The final chapter focuses on our
search for other signs of life in the universe. Concise,
easy-to-read, and highly engaging, What's Up with Astronomy? is
designed to help students develop their innate scientific curiosity
and engage in scientific inquiry. It is an exemplary textbook for
non-science majors and introductory courses in astronomy.
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