num_pages: 550
description: The Essential Cosmic Perspective , Third Edition Media Update features a new an effective learning program that uses chapter openers, headers, callouts in the text, and highly-visual chapter summaries to make learning goals more explicit and to tie together important astronomy concepts. DEVELOPING PERSPECTIVE, Our Place in the Universe, Discovering the Universe for Yourself, The Science of Astronomy, KEY CONCEPTS FOR ASTRONOMY, Making Sense of the Universe -Understanding Motion, Energy and Gravity, Light - The Cosmic Messenger, LEARNING FROM OTHER WORLDS, Our Solar System and Its Origin, Earth and the Terrestrial Worlds, Jovian Planet Systems, Remnants of Rock and Asteroids, Comets, and Pluto, STARS, Our Star, Other Stars, Star Stuff, The Bizarre Stellar Graveyard, GALAXIES AND BEYOND, Our Galaxy, A Universe of Galaxies, Dark Matter and the Fate of the Universe, The Beginning of Time, LIFE ON EARTH AND BEYOND, Life in the Prospects for Microbes, Civilizations, and Interstellar Travel. For all readers interested in important astronomy concepts.
language: English
title: The Essential Cosmic Perspective
titlecomplete: The Essential Cosmic Perspective
genres: School, Science, Reference, Physics, Astronomy, College, Textbooks, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 293
publisher: Benjamin Cummings