The dynamic universe - Snow, Theodore Peck (Theodore Peck) (Saint Paul, Minnesota West, 1985)
The essence of astronomy -- Cycles and seasons: motions in the sky -- Early astronomy -- The renaissance -- Isaac Newton and the laws of motion -- The nature of light -- Telescopes on earth and in space -- The earth as a planet -- The moon -- Venus: a cloud-covered inferno -- Mars: the red planet -- Mercury -- Jupiter: giant among giants -- Saturn: the ringed planet -- The outer planets -- Space debris -- The sun -- Adding it up: formation of the solar system -- Stellar observations: positions, magnitudes, and spectra -- Fundamental stellar properties and the H-R diagram -- Stellar structure: what makes a star run -- Star clusters and observations of stellar -- Life stories of stars -- Stellar remnants -- Structure and organization of the galaxy -- The interstellar medium -- The formation and evolution of the galazy -- The nature of the nebulae -- Clusters and superclusters: the distribution of galaxies -- Universal expansion and the cosmic background -- Peculiar galaxies, explosive nuclei, and quasars -- Cosmology: past, present, and future of the universe -- The question of companionship.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Astronomy