Discovering the Essential Universe

Sixth Edition

Publication Date: February 12, 2015

Paperback ISBN: 9781464181702

Pages: 560

Neil Comins’ Discovering the Universe confronts the challenges of the one-term astronomy course by heightening student curiosities about the cosmos, by using the context of astronomy to teach the process of science, and by highlighting common misconceptions and showing students how to think...
Read more

Take notes, add highlights, and download our mobile-friendly e-books.

ISBN: 9781319442095
Discovering the Essential Universe

$106.95
$64.17

Read and study in the print textbook.

ISBN: 9781464181702
Discovering the Essential Universe

$140.95

1. Discovering the Night Sky
2. Gravitation and the Waltz of the Planets
3. Light and Telescopes
4. Formation of the Solar System
5. Exoplanets
6. The Terrestrial Planets and Their Moons
7. The Outer Planets and their Moons
8. Vagabonds of the Solar System
9. The Sun. Our Extraordinary, Ordinary Star
10. Characterizing Stars
11. The Lives of Stars from Birth Through Middle Age
12. The Deaths and Remnants of Stars
13. The Galaxies
14. Cosmology
15. Astrobiology

Instructor Resources

Instructor Resources

Need instructor resources for your course?

Download Resources

You need to sign in to unlock your resources.

request locked icon

Correlation Guide from the Fifth Edition

request locked icon

Images