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Used books, rentals, and purchases made outside of Pearson If purchasing or renting from companies other than Pearson, the access codes for Mastering Astronomy may not be included, may be incorrect, or may be previously redeemed. Check with the seller before completing your purchase. For courses in Introductory Astronomy. This package includes Mastering Astronomy. Connects introductory astronomy to a broad understanding of the universe In this Ninth Edition of Astronomy Today , authors Eric Chaisson and Steve McMillan communicate their excitement about astronomy, combining up-to-date science with insightful pedagogy. The text emphasizes visualization, focusing on the process of scientific discovery in order to teach readers -how we know what we know.- Updated features in the 9th Edition, Big Pictures and Big Questions, help readers connect the content of each chapter with a broader understanding of the universe while piquing interest in current research. New features within Mastering (TM) Astronomy bring these features together and allow readers to interact with astronomy outside of the classroom. The 9th Edition has also been thoroughly updated and revised to reflect recent discoveries in the field of astronomy.Personalize Learning with Mastering Astronomy.
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Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Eric Chaisson holds a Doctorate in Astrophysics from Harvard University, where he spent 10 years on the faculty of Arts and Sciences. For more than two decades thereafter, he served on the senior science staff at the Space Telescope Science Institute and held various professorships at Johns Hopkins and Tufts universities. He is now back at Harvard, where he teaches and conducts research at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Eric has written 12 books on astronomy and has published nearly 200 scientific papers in professional journals.
Steve McMillan holds a Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Mathematics from Cambridge University and a Doctorate in Astronomy from Harvard University. He held postdoctoral positions at the University of Illinois and Northwestern University, where he continued his research in theoretical astrophysics, star clusters, and high-performance computing. Steve is currently Distinguished Professor of Physics at Drexel University and a frequent visiting researcher at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study and Leiden University. He has published more than 100 articles and scientific papers in professional journals. Emily L. Rice, College of Staten Island, City University of New York Emily holds bachelor's degrees in physics and astronomy and German from the University of Pittsburgh and a master's degree and doctorate in astronomy and astrophysics from UCLA. After completing her Ph.D. she held a postdoctoral position at the American Museum of Natural History, where she is still a resident research associate. Emily is currently Assistant Professor at the College of Staten Island and doctoral faculty in physics at the Graduate Center, both part of the City University of New York. In addition to her research on low-mass stars, brown dwarfs, and exoplanets as co-PI of the Brown Dwarfs in New York City (BDNYC) group, she is the co-author of Astronomy Labs: A Concept Oriented Approach and co-founder of the astronomy fashion blog STARtorialist."About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
- PublisherPearson College Div
- Publication date2017
- ISBN 10 0134516311
- ISBN 13 9780134516318
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages726
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