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Tables of Contents for Merlin's Tour of the Universe
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
PREFACE
ix
2
INTRODUCTION
xi
I. EARTH Everybody's favorite place
1
24
II. MOON From werewolves to blue moons
25
22
III. PLANETS Meet the Family
47
24
IV. ASTEROIDS, COMETS, AND METEORS Debris of the solar system--revealed
71
14
V. SUN Always a hot topic
85
18
VI. STARGAZERS Stars, constellations, and legends
103
26
VII. GRAVITY Weighty questions from all over
129
18
VIII. STARS They rotate. They blow up. They collapse.
147
14
IX. LIGHT & TELESCOPES The food source for all astronomical thought
161
18
X. GALAXIES GALORE Something to say about all 100 billion of them
179
24
XI. TIME, SPACE, AND A SENSE OF WHERE YOU ARE What's "up"? What's time? What's space?
203
26
XII. BLACK HOLES, QUASARS, AND THE UNIVERSE Two out of three are to be avoided
229
24
XIII. LIFE, HERE AND THERE Earth and Omniscia and
253
14
POSTSCRIPT
267
1
APPENDIX
268
1
GLOSSARY OF SELECTED TERMS
269
14
SUGGESTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
283
6
INDEX
289