Chapter Map for Cosmos: Astronomy in the New Millennium

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Chapter 1:    A Grand Tour of the Heavens

Chapter 2:    Light, Matter, and Energy: Powering the Universe

Chapter 3:    Light and Telescopes: Extending Our Senses

Chapter 4:    Observing the Stars and Planets: Clockwork of the Universe

Chapter 5:    Gravity and Motion: The Early History of Modern Astronomy

Chapter 6:    The Terrestrial Planets: Earth, Moon, and Their Relatives

Chapter 7:    The Jovian Planets: Windswept Giants

Chapter 8:    Pluto, Comets, and Space Debris

Chapter 9:    Our Solar System and Others

Chapter 10:  Our Star: The Sun

Chapter 11:  Stars: Distant Suns

Chapter 12:  How Stars Shine: Cosmic Furnaces

Chapter 13:  The Death of Stars: Stellar Recycling

Chapter 14:  Black Holes: The End of Space and Time

Chapter 15:  The Milky Way: Our Home in the Universe

Chapter 16:  A Universe of Galaxies

Chapter 17:  Quasars and Active Galaxies

Chapter 18:  Cosmology: The Birth and Life of the Cosmos

Chapter 19:  In the Beginning

Chapter 20:  Life in the Universe

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