Description
Book SynopsisAbout our authors
Jeffrey Bennett, a recipient of the American Institute of Physics Science Communication Award, holds a B.A. in biophysics (UC San Diego) and an M.S. and Ph.D. in astrophysics (University of Colorado). He specializes in science and math education and has taught at every level from preschool through graduate school. Career highlights include serving 2 years as a visiting senior scientist at NASA headquarters, where he developed programs to build stronger links between research and education, proposing and helping to develop the Voyage scale model solar system on the National Mall (Washington, DC) and developing the free app Totality by Big Kid Science to help people learn about total solar eclipses. He is the lead author oftextbooks in astronomy, astrobiology, mathematics, and statistics and of critically acclaimed books for the public including Beyond UFOs (Princeton University Press), Math for Life (Bid Kid Science), What Is Relativity? (C
Table of Contents
Brief Contents
- A Modern View of the Universe
- Understanding the Sky
- Changes in Our Perspective
- Origin of the Solar System
- Terrestrial Worlds
- The Outer Solar System
- Planets Around Other Stars
- The Sun and Other Stars
- Stellar Lives
- The Bizarre Stellar Graveyard
- Galaxies
- Galaxy Distances and Hubble's Law
- The Birth of the Universe
- Dark Matter and Dark Energy
- Life in the Universe
