The Astronomy Book Big Ideas Simply Explained 1st Edition by DK 0744028493 9780744028492

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ISBN 10: 0744028493

ISBN 13: 9780744028492

Author: DK 

Since the dawn of humankind, people have looked upward to the heavens and tried to understand them. This encyclopedia takes you on an expedition through time and space to discover our place in the universe. We invite you to take a journey through the wonders of the universe. Explore the cosmos, from planets to black holes, the Big Bang, and everything in-between! Get ready to discover the story of the universe one page at a time! This educational book for young adults will launch you on a wild trip through the cosmos and the incredible discoveries throughout history. Filled to the brim with beautifully illustrated flowcharts, graphics, and jargon-free language, The Astronomy Book breaks down hard-to-grasp concepts to guide you in understanding almost 100 big astronomical ideas. Big Ideas How do we measure the universe? Where is the event horizon? What is dark matter? Now you can find out all the answers to these questions and so much more in this inquisitive book about our universe! Using incredibly clever visual learning devices like step-by-step diagrams, you’ll learn more about captivating topics from the Copernican Revolution. Dive into the mind-boggling theories of recent science in a user-friendly format that makes the information easy to follow. Explore the biographies, theories, and discoveries of key astronomers through the ages such as Ptolemy, Galileo, Newton, Hubble, and Hawking. To infinity and beyond! Journey through space and time with us: – From Myth to Science 600 BCE – 1550 CE – The Telescope Revolution 1550 – 1750 – Uranus to Neptune 1750 – 1850 – The Rise of Astrophysics 1850 – 1915 – Atom, Stars, And Galaxies 1915 – 1950 – New Windows on The Universe 1950 – 1917 – The Triumph of Technology 1975 – Present The Series Simply Explained With over 7 million copies sold worldwide to date, The Astronomy Book is part of the award-winning Big Ideas Simply Explained series from DK Books. It uses innovative graphics along with engaging writing to make complex subjects easier to understand. Shortlisted: A Young Adult Library Services Association Outstanding Books for the College Bound and Lifelong Learners list selection A Mom’s Choice Awards® Honoring Excellence Gold Seal of Approval for Young Adult Books A Parents’ Choice Gold Award winner

The Astronomy Book Big Ideas Simply Explained 1st Table of contents:

FROM MYTH TO SCIENCE • 600 BCE–1550 CE

It is clear that Earth does not move • The geocentric model

Earth revolves around the sun on the circumference of a circle • Early heliocentric model

The equinoxes move over time • Shifting stars

The moon’s brightness is produced by the radiance of the sun • Theories about the moon

All matters useful to the theory of heavenly things • Consolidating knowledge

The unmoving stars go uniformly westward • Earth’s rotation

A little cloud in the night sky • Mapping the galaxies

A new calendar for China • The solar year

We have re-observed all of the stars in Ptolemy’s catalog • Improved instruments

Finally we shall place the sun himself at the center of the universe • The Copernican model

THE TELESCOPE REVOLUTION • 1550–1750

I noticed a new and unusual star • The Tychonic model

Mira Ceti is a variable star • A new kind of star

The most true path of the planet is an ellipse • Elliptical orbits

Our own eyes show us four stars traveling around Jupiter • Galileo’s telescope

A perfectly circular spot centered on the sun • The transit of Venus

New moons around Saturn • Observing Saturn’s rings

Gravity explains the motions of the planets • Gravitational theory

I dare venture to foretell that the comet will return again in the year 1758 • Halley’s comet

These discoveries are the most brilliant and useful of the century • Stellar aberration

A catalog of the southern sky • Mapping southern stars

URANUS TO NEPTUNE • 1750–1850

I found that it is a comet, for it has changed its place • Observing Uranus

The brightness of the star was altered • Variable stars

Our Milky Way is the dwelling, the nebulae are the cities • Messier objects

On the construction of the heavens • The Milky Way

Rocks fall from space • Asteroids and meteorites

The mechanism of the heavens • Gravitational disturbances

I surmise that it could be something better than a comet • The discovery of Ceres

A survey of the whole surface of the heavens • The southern hemisphere

An apparent movement of the stars • Stellar parallax

Sunspots appear in cycles • The surface of the sun

A spiral form of arrangement was detected • Examining nebulae

The planet whose position you have pointed out actually exists • The discovery of Neptune

THE RISE OF ASTROPHYSICS • 1850–1915

Sodium is to be found in the solar atmosphere • The sun’s spectrum

Stars can be grouped by their spectra • Analyzing starlight

Enormous masses of luminous gas • Properties of nebulae

The sun’s yellow prominence differs from any terrestrial flame • The sun’s emissions

Mars is traversed by a dense network of channels • Mapping Mars’s surface

Photographing the stars • Astrophotography

A precise measurement of the stars • The star catalog

Classifying the stars according to their spectra reveals their age and size • The characteristics of stars

There are two kinds of red star • Analyzing absorption lines

Sunspots are magnetic • The properties of sunspots

The key to a distance scale of the universe • Measuring the universe

Stars are giants or dwarfs • Refining star classification

Penetrating radiation is coming from space • Cosmic rays

A white hot star that is too faint • Discovering white dwarfs

ATOMS, STARS, AND GALAXIES • 1915–1950

Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter • The theory of relativity

An exact solution to relativity predicts black holes • Curves in spacetime

The spiral nebulae are stellar systems • Spiral galaxies

Stars are dominated by hydrogen and helium • Stellar composition

Our galaxy is rotating • The shape of the Milky Way

A slow process of annihilation of matter • Nuclear fusion within stars

A day without yesterday • The birth of the universe

The universe is expanding in all directions • Beyond the Milky Way

White dwarfs have a maximum mass • The life cycles of stars

The radio universe • Radio astronomy

An explosive transition to a neutron star • Supernovae

The source of energy in stars is nuclear fusion • Energy generation

A reservoir of comets exists beyond the planets • The Kuiper belt

Some galaxies have active regions at their centers • Nuclei and radiation

The match of lunar and Earth material is too perfect • The origin of the moon

Important new discoveries will be made with flying telescopes • Space telescopes

It took less than an hour to make the atomic nuclei • The primeval atom

Stars are factories for the chemical elements • Nucleosynthesis

Sites of star formation • Dense molecular clouds

NEW WINDOWS ON THE UNIVERSE • 1950–1975

A vast cloud surrounds the solar system • The Oort cloud

Comets are dirty snowballs • The composition of comets

The way to the stars is open • The launch of Sputnik

The search for interstellar communications • Radio telescopes

Meteorites can vaporize on impact • Investigating craters

The sun rings like a bell • The sun’s vibrations

The data can best be explained as X-rays from sources outside the solar system • Cosmic radiation

Brighter than a galaxy, but it looks like a star • Quasars and black holes

An ocean of whispers left over from our eruptive creations • Searching for the Big Bang

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence is a search for ourselves • Life on other planets

It has to be some new kind of star • Quasars and pulsars

Galaxies change over time • Understanding stellar evolution

We choose to go to the moon • The Space Race

The planets formed from a disk of gas and dust • The nebular hypothesis

Solar neutrinos can only be seen with a very large detector • The Homestake experiment

A star that we couldn’t see • Discovering black holes

Black holes emit radiation • Hawking radiation

THE TRIUMPH OF TECHNOLOGY • 1975–present

A grand tour of the giant planets • Exploring the solar system

Most of the universe is missing • Dark matter

Negative pressures produce repulsive gravity • Cosmic inflation

Galaxies appear to be on the surfaces of bubblelike structures • Redshift surveys

Stars form from the inside out • Inside giant molecular clouds

Wrinkles in time • Observing the CMB

The Kuiper belt is real • Exploring beyond Neptune

Most stars are orbited by planets • Exoplanets

The most ambitious map of the universe ever • A digital view of the skies

Our galaxy harbors a massive central black hole • The heart of the Milky Way

Cosmic expansion is accelerating • Dark energy

Peering back over 13.5 billion years • Studying distant stars

Our mission is to land on a comet • Understanding comets

The violent birth of the solar system • The Nice model

A close-up view of an oddball of the solar system • Studying Pluto

A laboratory on Mars • Exploring Mars

The biggest eye on the sky • Looking farther into space

Ripples through spacetime • Gravitational waves

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