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This eBook provides a highly visual introduction to some basic astronomy concepts that everyone should know, like explaining the phases of the moon and earth-based evidence of the heliocentric model. For full contents, see below. There are 50 full-color pages all together. The text is part of each picture-page, so the text cannot be resized. It has the style of a picture book, where (virtually) every page has images. (There is another, newer astronomy eBook by the same author which has much more text, has more pictures, covers more topics, and has the text separate from the images so that the font can be resized. The other eBook is also much longer, as the paperback edition has 186 pages.)

10 new picture-pages were added on March 18, 2012. There are now 50 picture-pages all together. The new slides feature large images of the sun and each planet with a brief table of very basic information about each (including size relative to earth, orbital radius relative to earth, mass relative to earth, density, surface temperature, and number of moons).

The author, Chris McMullen, is a physics and astronomy instructor at Northwestern State University of Louisiana. He earned his Ph.D. in physics at Oklahoma State University in phenomenological high-energy physics (particle physics). His doctoral dissertation was on the collider phenomenology of superstring-inspired large extra dimensions, a field in which he has coauthored several papers.

Educators may use this material in the classroom for the purpose of teaching astronomy concepts. The photos are NASA space photos. (NASA did not participate in the writing or publication of this eBook.) In some of the images, the author combined NASA photos together to form a single, new image or added line drawings and text to the NASA photos.

Contents:

(1) Overview of the solar system
(2) Understanding the lunar phases
(3) Understanding solar and lunar eclipses
(4) Understanding the seasons
(5) Evidence that the earth is round
(6) Ptolemy’s geocentric model
(7) Aristarchus’/Copernicus’ heliocentric model
(8) Understanding retrograde motion
(9) Objections to the heliocentric model
(10) Overcoming objections to the heliocentric model
(11) Evidence for the heliocentric model

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