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General_Astronomy __NOEDITSECTION__ Table of Contents The Modern View of the Cosmos The Big Picture Short History of the Universe Scientific Notation The Scientific Method What People do in Astronomy Current Unsolved Mysteries Observational Astronomy The Celestial Sphere Coordinate Systems Phases of the Moon Eclipses Daily Motions Yearly Motions Motion and Gravity The Early Origins of Astronomy The First Physics (Aristotle) Difficulties in the Geocentric Model The Heliocentric Model (Copernicus) New Ideas About Motion (Galileo) Order in Planetary Orbits Principles of Light What is Light? The Spectrum Basic Astrophysics Atomic Emission and Absorption Molecular Emission and Absorption Thermal Radiation The Doppler Effect Telescopes Basic Optics Optical Telescopes Telescopes of Other Wavelengths Neutrino Telescopes Gravitational Wave Telescopes Other Observations Planetary science The Terrestrial Planets The Jovian Planets Planetary Moons Comets Asteroids Meteors and Meteorites The Kuiper Belt Extrasolar Planets Formation of the Solar System Earth as a Planet Earth's Early Years Formation of the Moon The Biosphere The Atmosphere The Water Cycle Earth Earth's Moon Space Exploration First Steps into Space The Apollo Missions Pioneers and Voyagers The Great Observatories Major Future Missions Astrobiology and Extraterrestrial Life The Drake Equation Organic Chemistry for Astronomy Life in the Solar System The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence The Sun Fusion in the Sun Convective and Radiative Zones The Photosphere Solar Activity Space Weather Helioseismology The Solar Cycle Stars Mass Luminosity Temperature The H-R Diagram Star Clusters as Cosmic Laboratories The Stellar Life Cycle Protostars and Stellar Nurseries The Life of Low Mass Stars The Death of Low Mass Stars The Life of High Mass Stars The Death of High Mass Stars Black Holes Life of the Black Hole Black Holes in Hiding History of the Black Hole The Theory of the Naked Singularity Spaghettification Black Holes/Hawking Radiation Galaxies The Milky Way Types of Galaxies Galactic Formation Galactic Evolution Galactic Evolution Active Galactic Nuclei and Quasars Gamma-Ray Bursts and Cosmic Rays Introduction and Brief History of Gamma-Ray Bursts Long-Soft and Short-Hard Classifications Fluence and Extragalactic Nature Sources of Gamma-Ray Bursts Lingering Mysteries Cosmology The Distance Ladder The Big Bang and Cosmic Expansion The First Three Minutes Higgs Boson An Accelerating Universe The Modern View of the Cosmos Observational Astronomy Motion and Gravity The Early Origins of Astronomy The First Physics (Aristotle) Difficulties in the Geocentric Model The Heliocentric Model (Copernicus) New Ideas About Motion (Galileo) Order in Planetary Orbits Principles of Light What is Light? The Spectrum Basic Astrophysics Atomic Emission and Absorption Molecular Emission and Absorption Thermal Radiation The Doppler Effect Telescopes Basic Optics Optical Telescopes Telescopes of Other Wavelengths Neutrino Telescopes Gravitational Wave Telescopes Other Observations Planetary science The Terrestrial Planets The Jovian Planets Planetary Moons Comets Asteroids Meteors and Meteorites The Kuiper Belt Extrasolar Planets Formation of the Solar System Earth as a Planet Earth's Early Years Formation of the Moon The Biosphere The Atmosphere The Water Cycle Earth Earth's Moon Space Exploration First Steps into Space The Apollo Missions Pioneers and Voyagers The Great Observatories General_Astronomy/Major_Future_Missions Astrobiology and Extraterrestrial Life The Drake Equation Organic Chemistry for Astronomy Life in the Solar System The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence The Sun Fusion in the Sun Convective and Radiative Zones The Photosphere Solar Activity Space Weather Helioseismology The Solar Cycle Stars Mass Luminosity Temperature The H-R Diagram Star Clusters as Cosmic Laboratories The Stellar Life Cycle Protostars and Stellar Nurseries The Life of Low Mass Stars The Death of Low Mass Stars The Life of High Mass Stars The Death of High Mass Stars Black Holes Life of the Black Hole Black Holes in Hiding History of the Black Hole The Theory of the Naked Singularity Spaghettification Black Holes/Hawking Radiation Galaxies The Milky Way Types of Galaxies Galactic Formation Galactic Evolution Supermassive Black Holes Active Galactic Nuclei and Quasars Gamma-Ray Bursts and Cosmic Rays Introduction and Brief History of Gamma-Ray Bursts Long-Soft and Short-Hard Classifications Fluence and Extragalactic Nature Sources of Gamma-Ray Bursts Lingering Mysteries Cosmology The Distance Ladder The Big Bang and Cosmic Expansion The First Three Minutes Higgs Boson An Accelerating Universe Universe