What’s Up with Astronomy?
What’s Up with Astronomy? by Chris McCarthy, published by Cognella, Incorporated on July 13, 2022, is a 236-page exploration of the field of astronomy. This book is designed to help students understand the principles of science and its relevance to everyday life, providing a comprehensive overview of how astronomy evolved into a scientific discipline. It discusses the contributions of key astronomers throughout history and examines how modern scientific theories are scrutinized.
Readers will find a structured approach to various astronomical concepts, beginning with Earth’s rotation and orbit, which illustrate the foundations of time measurement. The book delves into early discoveries about planets, the nature of light, and the mechanics of stars, including their life cycles and the formation of galaxies. It also addresses cosmology and the ongoing search for extraterrestrial life. Written in an accessible style, What’s Up with Astronomy? encourages scientific curiosity and inquiry, making it suitable for non-science majors and introductory astronomy courses.
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Designed to help students better understand how science works and how it impacts their daily lives, What’s Up with Astronomy? provides readers with an illuminating discussion of how astronomy became a science, the lived experiences and contributions of key astronomers throughout time, and how modern scientific theories are questioned and checked.
The opening chapter illustrates how Earth’s rotation gives us the day, Earth’s orbit gives us the year, Earth’s tilt gives us the seasons, and the moon’s orbit gives us the month-immediately showing students how astronomy influences our everyday lives. Additional chapters cover early discoveries regarding planets, the composition of light, using telescopes, what stars are made of and how they move, what we know about the sun, and the power of stars. Students learn about the life cycles of stars, neutron stars, black holes, the Milky Way, galaxies, cosmology, and planet formation. The final chapter focuses on our search for other signs of life in the universe.
Concise, easy-to-read, and highly engaging, What’s Up with Astronomy? is designed to help students develop their innate scientific curiosity and engage in scientific inquiry. It is an exemplary textbook for non-science majors and introductory courses in astronomy.
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