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Astronomy Today, Global Edition Description With Astronomy Today, Eighth Edition, trusted authors Eric Chaisson and Steve McMillan communicate their excitement about astronomy, delivering current and thorough science with insightful pedagogy. The text emphasizes critical thinking and visualization, and it focuses on the process of scientific discovery, teaching students "how we know what we know."

Part one: Astronomy and the Universe
1 Charting the Heavens: The Foundations of Astronomy
2 The copernican Revolution: The Birth of Modern Science
3 Radiation: Information from the Cosmos
4 Spectroscopy: The Inner Workings of Atoms
5 Telescopes: The Tools of Astronomy

Part Two: Our Planetary System
6 The Solar System: Comparative Planetology and Formation Models
7 Earth: Our Home in Space
8 The Moon and Mercury: Scorched and Battered Worlds
9 Venus: Earth's Sister Planet
10 Mars: A Near Miss for Life?
11 Jupiter: Giant of the Solar System
12 Saturn: Spectacular Rings and Mysterious Moons
13 Uranus and Neptune: The Outer Worlds of The Solar System
14 Solar System Debris: Keys to Our Origin
15 Exoplants: Planetary Systems Beyond Our Own

Part Three: Stars and Stellar Evolution
16 The Sun: Our Parent Star
17 The Stars: Giants, Dwarfs, and the main Sequence
18 The Interstellar Medium: Gas and Dust among the Stars
19 Star Formation: A Traumatic Birth
20 Stellar Evolution: The Life and Death of a Star
21 Stellar Explosions: Novae, Supernovae, and the Formation of the Elements
22 Neutron Stars and Black Holes: Strange States of Matter

Part Four: Galaxies and Cosmology
23 The Milky Way Galaxy: A Spiral in Space
24 Galaxies: Building Blocks of the universe
25 Galaxies and Dark Matter: The Large-Scale Structure of the Cosmos
26 Cosmology: The Big Bang and The Fate of the Universe
27 The Early Universe: Toward the Beginning of time
28 Life in the Universe: Are We Alone?