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Week 1 - Part 1
Astronomy is defined as the study...,
Science is not merely a body of k...,
From the trends found through obs...
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Week 1 - Part 2
Why can t we from our position in...,
The space between the stars conta...,
From various investigations we ha...
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Week 1 - Part 3
The moon s period that is the per...,
The time interval in which the mo...
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5.1 The Behavior of Light
The visible light and other radia...,
As used in this book is a general...,
The scientist who played a role i...
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5.2 & 5.3
Objects in the universe send out ...,
Electromagnetic radiation with th...,
Because gamma rays carry a lot of...
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5.4, 5.5, & 5.6
An atom in its normal state is el...,
It is the flow of that produces c...,
Particles are helium atoms that h...
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30 (1)
We will consider how life began o...,
We saw that the universe was born...,
Big bangafter the initial hot den...
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30 (2)
Water in the liquid phase the bio...,
This provides ample incentive for...,
Both high and low temperatures ca...
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30 (3)
Since the discovery of the first ...,
In evaluating the prospect for li...,
The habitable zone is generally t...
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16 (1)
The sun puts out an incomprehensi...,
As you learned earlier evidence s...,
The sun s energy output is about ...
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16 (2)
When such binding energy of atoms...,
With binding energy this slight d...,
Measurements show that the bindin...
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16 (3)
The outward flow of energy throug...,
There are three ways in which ene...,
In atoms or molecules pass on the...
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17 (1)
Perhaps the most important charac...,
For example the luminosity of sir...,
Astronomers are careful to distin...
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17 (2)
Measuring colors is only one way ...,
In 1814 the german physicist obse...,
In the 1860s english astronomers ...
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17 (3)
An interesting property of brown ...,
So what is the difference between...,
If an object has enough mass to f...
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18 (1)
The milky way galaxy in which we ...,
You can see that there are many m...,
The reason the lowest mass dwarfs...
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18 (2)
Stars more massive than the sun a...,
Searches at large distances from ...,
According to theoretical calculat...
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18 (3)
The main sequence makes sense the...,
What about the other stars on the...,
Because stars spend much less tim...
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19 (1)
One of the enduring legacies of t...,
No body is going to measure the e...,
In 1960 the official definition o...
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19 (2)
The effect by which the position ...,
As earth travels from one side of...,
The first successful detections o...
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19 (3)
The variability of delta cephei w...,
This is just one more piece of ev...,
The importance of cepheid variabl...
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21 (1)
Each second in the sun approximat...,
Stars come with many different ma...,
The most massive main sequence st...
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21 (2)
The difference between the densit...,
Birth of a starforming coregravit...,
During the time a dense core is c...
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21 (3)
Objects of extremely low mass nev...,
This critical mass mass enough to...,
At the other extreme the upper en...
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21 (4)
If we can determine the of the st...,
The amount of light the planet bl...,
Transit depth is given by
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21 (5)
When the milky way galaxy was you...,
Lots of stars found with plants i...
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22 (1)
The left hand edge of the main se...,
The lifetime of a star in a parti...
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22 (2)
Each starts as a contracting prot...,
We carefully used the term of sta...,
Remember that red giants start ou...
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26 (1)
The evidence found in that meant ...,
It was not that scientists weren ...,
Old scientists while analyzing th...
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26 (2)
Elliptical galaxies consist almos...,
In the larger nearby ellipticals ...,
Elliptical galaxies show various ...
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