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The universe / [editor, Andrew Solway].

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Redding, Conn. : Brown Bear Books, c2009.

Cosmology -- Textbooks.

Astronomy -- Textbooks.

9781933834764 (hardcover)

1933834765 (hardcover)

Curriculum connections. 21st century science.

112 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.

Scale of the universe -- History of the big bang -- The inflationary universe -- The infant universe -- Beginnings of structure -- Formation of galaxies -- Kinds of galaxies -- Structure of galaxies -- The Milky Way -- Clusters and voids -- Active galaxies -- Energy machine -- Interacting galaxies -- Stars and galaxies -- The sun -- Colors and spectra -- Giants and dwarfs -- Binary and multiple stars -- Birth of a star -- On the main sequence -- Post-main sequence -- Stellar nucleosynthesis -- Supernovae -- Neutron stars and pulsars -- Black holes -- Open, flat, or closed -- The accelerating universe -- Accretion of the planets -- Large and small planets -- Planets and their orbits -- Earth and moon -- Inner planets -- Life on Mars? -- Distant companions -- Moons of the outer planets -- Bits and pieces -- Beyond the fringe -- Forming cores -- How atmospheres evolved.

Text, photographs, and diagrams explain the major features of the universe, theories relating to its origins and growth, and Earth's place within it. Includes sidebars that explain the relevance of concepts to the science curriculum.

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