I. DEVELOPING PERSPECTIVE
1. Our Place in the Universe
2. Discovering the Universe for Yourself
3. The Science of Astronomy
S1. Celestial Timekeeping and Navigation
II. KEY CONCEPTS FOR ASTRONOMY
4. Making Sense of the Universe: Understanding Motion, Energy, and Gravity
5. Light and Matter: Reading Messages from the Cosmos
6. Telescopes: Portals of Discovery
III. LEARNING FROM OTHER WORLDS
7. Our Planetary System
8. Formation of the Solar System
9. Planetary Geology: Earth and the Other Terrestrial Worlds
10. Planetary Atmospheres: Earth and the Other Terrestrial Worlds
11. Jovian Planet Systems
12. Asteroids, Comets, and Dwarf Planets: Their Nature, Orbits, and Impacts
13. Other Planetary Systems: The New Science of Distant Worlds
IV. A DEEPER LOOK AT NATURE
S2. Space and Time
S3. Spacetime and Gravity
S4. Building Blocks of the Universe
V. STARS
14. Our Star
15. Surveying the Stars
16. Star Birth
17. Star Stuff
18. The Bizarre Stellar Graveyard
VI. GALAXIES AND BEYOND
19. Our Galaxy
20. Galaxies and the Foundation of Modern Cosmology
21. Galaxy Evolution
22. Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Fate of the Universe
23. The Beginning of Time
VII. LIFE ON EARTH AND BEYOND
24. Life in the Universe
Jeffrey Bennett
Jeffrey Bennett holds a B.A. (1981) in biophysics from the
University of California, San Diego, and an M.S. and Ph.D. (1987)
in astrophysics from the University of Colorado, Boulder. He has
taught at every level from preschool through graduate school,
including more than 50 college classes in astronomy, physics,
mathematics, and education. He served 2 years as a visiting senior
scientist at NASA headquarters, where he created NASA’s “IDEAS”
program, started a program to fly teachers aboard NASA’s airborne
observatories (including SOFIA), and worked on numerous educational
programs for the Hubble Space Telescope and other space science
missions. He also proposed the idea for and helped develop both the
Colorado Scale Model Solar System on the CU-Boulder campus and the
Voyage Scale Model Solar System on the National Mall in Washington,
D.C. In addition to this astronomy textbook, he is also lead author
of college-level textbooks in astrobiology, mathematics, and
statistics (all from Pearson); of critically acclaimed two books
for the general public including , On the Cosmic Horizon (Pearson
Addison-Wesley, 2001) and Beyond UFOs (Princeton University Press,
2008/2011) and Math for Life (Roberts & Co, 2012); and an of the
award-winning series of children’s books that includes Max Goes to
the Moon, Max Goes to Mars, Max Goes to Jupiter, and Max’s Ice Age
AdventureThe Wizard Who Saved the World. When not working, he
enjoys participating in masters swimming and in the daily
adventures of life with his wife, Lisa; his children, Grant and
Brooke; and his dog, Cosmo. His personal Web site is
www.jeffreybennett.com.
Megan Donahue
Megan Donahue is a professor in the
Department of Physics and Astronomy at Michigan State University.
Her current research is mainly about using X-ray, UV, infrared, and
visible light to study clusters of galaxies: their contents–dark
matter, hot gas, galaxies, active galactic nuclei–and what they
reveal about the contents of the universe and how galaxies form and
evolve. She grew up on a farm in Nebraska and received an S.B.. in
physics from MIT, where she began her research career as an X-ray
astronomer. She has a Ph.D. in astrophysics from the University of
Colorado. Her Ph.D. thesis on theory and optical observations of
intergalactic and intracluster gas won the 1993 Trumpler Award from
the Astronomical Society for the Pacific for an outstanding
astrophysics doctoral dissertation in North America. She continued
postdoctoral research as a Carnegie Fellow at Carnegie
Observatories in Pasadena, California, and later as an STScI
Institute Fellow at Space Telescope. Megan was a staff astronomer
at the Space Telescope Science Institute until 2003, when she
joined the MSU faculty. Megan is married to Mark Voit, and they
collaborate on many projects, including this textbook and the
raising of their children, Michaela, Sebastian, and Angela. Between
the births of Sebastian and Angela, Megan qualified for and ran the
Boston Marathon. These days, Megan runs trails, orienteers, and
plays piano and bass guitar whenever her children allow it.
Nicholas Schneider
Nicholas Schneider is an associate
professor in the Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences
at the University of Colorado and a researcher in the Laboratory
for Atmospheric and Space Physics. He received his B.A. in physics
and astronomy from Dartmouth College in 1979 and his Ph.D. in
planetary science from the University of Arizona in 1988. In 1991,
he received the National Science Foundation’s Presidential Young
Investigator Award. His research interests include planetary
atmospheres and planetary astronomy, with a focus on the odd case
of Jupiter’s moon Io. He enjoys teaching at all levels and is
active in efforts to improve undergraduate astronomy education. Off
the job, he enjoys exploring the outdoors with his family and
figuring out how things work.
Mark Voit
Mark Voit is a professor in the Department of
Physics and Astronomy at Michigan State University. He earned his
A.B. in astrophysical sciences at Princeton University and his
Ph.D. in astrophysics at the University of Colorado in 1990. He
continued his studies at the California Institute of Technology,
where he was a research fellow in theoretical astrophysics, and
then moved on to Johns Hopkins University as a Hubble Fellow.
Before going to Michigan State, Mark worked in the Office of Public
Outreach at the Space Telescope, where he developed museum
exhibitions about the Hubble Space Telescope and helped design
NASA’s award-winning HubbleSite. His research interests range from
interstellar processes in our own galaxy to the clustering of
galaxies in the early universe. He is married to coauthor Megan
Donahue, and cooks terrific meals for her and their three children.
Mark likes getting outdoors whenever possible and particularly
enjoys running, mountain biking, canoeing, orienteering, and
adventure racing. He is also author of the popular book Hubble
Space Telescope: New Views of the Universe.
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