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  title info:
    title: Astronomy
    sub title: the human quest for understanding
  name:
    name part: Ostlie, Dale A.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2022
    copyright date: 2022
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xxiii, 886 pages).
  abstract: This introductory astronomy textbook is aimed at undergraduates across a range of disciplines. It encourages the development of vital science-based critical-thinking skills, and outlines our present-day understanding of our universe and the profound questions still to be answered in this ancient, yet rapidly changing field.
  table of contents: I The Process of Science Through the Lens of Astronomy -- 1: The Nature of Science -- 2: The Heavens: A Realm of Mystery -- 3: On the Path Toward Modern Science -- 4: The Copernican Revolution -- 5: Sir Isaac Newton's Universe -- 6: The Universality of Physical Law -- 7: Revealing Secrets Hidden in Light and Matter -- 8: Modern Physics: New Science to Study the Universe -- II The Sun, Our Solar System, and Exoplanets -- 9: The Sun, Our Parent Star -- 10: An Overview of the Solar System -- 11: The Rocky Planets and Our Moon -- 12: The Giant Planet Systems -- 13: Dwarf Planets and Small Bodies -- 14: Planets Everywhere and the Search for Extraterrestrial LifeIII Stars and the Universe Beyond -- 15: Measuring the Stars -- 16: The Lives of Stars -- 17: The End of a Stellar Life -- 18: Galaxies Galore -- 19: The Once and Future Universe -- Appendices.
  note: Dale A. Ostlie.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy
  subject:
    topic: Astronomie
  subject:
    topic: astronomy
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy, space & time
  subject:
    topic: Science
  classification: QB43.3 .O88 2022
  classification: 520
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Astronomy
    name:
      name part: Ostlie, Dale A.
    origin info:
      publisher: [S.l.] : Oxford University Press, 2022
    identifier: (OCoLC)1293650906
  related item:
    identifier: (DLC) 2022933866
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  identifier: 0191955035
  identifier: 0198825838
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  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: UIU
    record creation date: 230124
    record change date: 20260318165134.9
    record identifier: in00005698036
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng