The Astronomy Book [SCM]

Chapters

• 1 What Is Astronomy?
• What Do Astronomers Study?
• 2 How Big Is the Universe?
• Some Cosmic Distances
• Will Atronomers Ever See the Edge of the Universe?
• Are There Other Universes?
• Solar System and Universe Facts
• 3 The Origin of the Universe
• When Did God Make Moons and Planets?
• Is the Solar System in the Bible?
• Was There a Big Bang?
• The Importance of the Biblical Record
• Is the Universe Expanding?
• 4 Watching the Sky
• Eclipses of the Sun
• Eclipses of the Moon
• Using a Telescope
• 5 Why Did God Create the Heavenly Bodies?
• Calendars
• Modern Time-Telling
• What Are Constellations?
• How Are Constellations Related to Astrology?
• How Do Astronomers Use the Constellations?
• Learning More About the Constellations
• 6 Space Exploration
• Early Rockets
• The Space Age
• The First Moon Landing
• The Modern Space Program
• Unmanned Missions
• What Has the Space Program Taught Us?
• Space Highlights
• 7 A Tour of the Solar System
• The Earth Not Just Another Planet
• Why Did God Make Other Planets?
• The Moon: A Special Satellite
• The Origin of the Moon
• How Old Is the Moon?
• The Sun, a Light-Giver
• The Sun: Not Just Another Star
• Where Does the Sun Get Its Heat?
• How Old Is the Sun?
• The Nebular Hypothesis: A False Idea
• Mercury and Venus
• Mars: Not a Life-Supporting Planet
• Jupiter and Saturn
• Uranus and Neptune
• Pluto
• 8 Stars and Galaxies
• What Are Stars Made Of?
• Stars Are Not All the Same
• Do Black Holes Exist?
• The Closest Galaxies
• Seeing Distant Objects in a Young Universe
• Look-Back Time
• 9 Cosmic Catastrophes
• Star Death
• The Death of the Sun
• Supernova Remnants
• The Myth of Star Birth
• 10 Catastrophes in the Solar System
• Did Moons Really Explode?
• What Are Asteroids? Where Did They Come From?
• Did a Planet Really Explode?
• Martian Catastrophes
• The Martian Flood
• What Caused These Catastrophes? When Were They?
• Comets
• The Age of Comets
• Meteor Showers
• Big Meteor Craters
• Did An Asteroid or Meteor Kill the Dinosaurs?
• Big Meteorites
• People Have Seen Big Meteors Land
• 11 Are There Other Planets in Other Solar Systems?
• Why Do Some Astronomers Believe There Are Other Solar Systems?
• Is There Extraterrestrial Life?
• What Is Life?
• What Are UFO's?