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Chapter 1: A Grand Tour of the HeavensChapter 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 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 20: Life in the Universe
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