1. A Grand Tour of the Cosmos
2. Journey Through Space and Time
3. Light?The Supreme Informant
4. The Fingerprints of Atoms
5. Tools of the Trade
6. Space Telescopes and the Celestial Sphere
7. Our Sun?The Nearest Star
8. Lunar Phases and Glorious Eclipses
9. The Early History of Astronomy
10. The Copernican Revolution
11. On the Shoulders of Giants
12. One Small Step?The Earth and Moon
13. Paradise Lost?Venus and Mars
14. Planetary Behemoths?Jupiter and Saturn
15. Distant Worlds and Solar System Debris
16. Comets and Catastrophic Collisions
17. Distant Suns
18. Social Stars?Binaries and Clusters
19. Nature?s Nuclear Reactors
20. The Fate of Our Sun
21. Exploding Stars?Celestial Fireworks
22. The Corpses of Massive Stars
23. Hearts of Darkness
24. The Quest for Black Holes
25. Starting at Home?The Milky Way
26. One Giant Leap?Other Galaxies
27. The Dark Side of Matter
28. The Birth and Life of Galaxies
29. Quasars?Cosmic Powerhouses
30. In the Belly of the Beast
31. Are We Alone? The Search Begins
32. Communicating with Extraterrestrials
33. The Expansion of the Universe
34. The Age of the Universe
35. The Geometry and Fate of the Universe
36. Einstein?s Biggest Blunder?
37. Echoes of the Big Bang
38. In the Beginning
39. The Ultimate Free Lunch?
40. A Universe of Universes
About the Author: Dr. Filippenko is an astronomy professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has won the highest teaching awards and has been voted best professor several times. He was named the 2006 Carnegie/CASE Doctoral and Research Universities National Professor of the Year and received the 2007 Richtmyer Memorial Award. His award-winning textbook, The Cosmos: Astronomy in the New Millennium, is now in its third edition.
Dr. Alex Filippenko, a world-renowned expert on exploding stars, black holes, galaxies, and cosmology
Dr. Filippenko’s insightful contributions to the TV documentaries “Stephen Hawking’s Universe,” “Runaway Universe,” “Exploring Time,” and, most recently, “The Universe” on The History Channel garnered him the Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization.
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