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" Understanding our universe / "
Stacy Palen [and others].
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BL
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627755
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Understanding our universe /\ Stacy Palen [and others].
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1st ed.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: W.W. Norton,, ©2012.
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xxix, 485, [44] pages :: illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ;; 28 cm
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9780393912104
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: 0393912108
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Part I: Introduction to astronomy. (1. Our place in the Universe ; 2. Patterns in the sky -- motions of Earth ; Laws of motion ; 4. Light and telescopes) -- Part II: The solar system. (5. The formation of stars and planets ; 6. Terrestrial worlds in the inner solar system ; 7. Atmospheres of Venus, Earth, and Mars ; 8. The giant planets ; 9. Small bodies of the solar system) -- Part III: Stars and stellar evolution (10. Measuring the stars ; 11. Our star: The Sun ; 12. Evolution of low-mass stars ; 13. Evolution of high-mass stars) -- Part IV: Galaxies, the Universe, and cosmology (14. The expansion of space ; 15. The realm of the galaxies ; 16. Our galaxy, the Milky Way ; 17. Modern cosmology and the origin of structure ; 18. Life in the Universe).
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Includes Vocabulary Alert, Working It Out (mathematics), Reading Astronomy News, and Exploration boxes throughout the text.
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Astronomy, Textbooks.
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520
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Palen, Stacy.
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