ASTR 116/116H Introduction to Astronomy - Textbook Chapter Guide

If you are reading Astronomy Today, 5th Edition, this page will show how the chapters in that book correlate to Astronomy, A Beginner's Guide to the Universe 4th Edition.

Astronomy, A Beginner's Guide to the Universe, 4th Edition
Astronomy Today, 5th Edition - Read Chapters
Prologue:  Charting the Heavens
1
Chapter 1 Copernican Revolution
2
 Chapter 2 Light and Matter
3, 4
Chapter 3 Telescopes
5
Chapter 4 The Solar System
6, 14, 15
Chapter 5 Earth and Its Moon
7, 8
 Chapter 6 The Terrestrial Planets
8,  9, 10
Chapter 7-8 The Jovian Planets and Pluto
11, 12, 13
Chapter 9 The Sun
16
Chapter 10 Measuring the Stars
17
Chapter 11 The Interstellar Medium, Birth of Stars
18, 19
Chapter 12 Stellar Evolution
20, 21
 Chapter 13 Neutron Stars and Black Holes
22
 Chapter 14 The Milky Way Galaxy
23
Chapter 15 Normal and Active Galaxies
24, 25
Chapter 16 Hubble's Law and Dark Matter
24, 25
Chapter 17 Cosmology and the Big Bang
26, 27
 Chapter 18 Life in the Universe
28
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Updated 8/30/2004