The following is a listing of chapters with their titles and (lists of the sorts of science concepts each contains, except where the title says it all), with links.
| Chapter 1: The Scale of the Cosmos (units and measurement) |
| Chapter 2: The Sky (celestial sphere and motions) |
| Chapter 3: Lunar Tides, Phases, and Eclipses |
| Chapter 4: The Origin of Modern Astronomy (from earliest times to Copernicus, Tycho, and Kepler) |
| Chapter 5: Newton, Einstein, and Gravity (Galileo's Laws, Newton's Laws, Orbital Motion, Relativity!) |
| Chapter 6: Light and Telescopes (ROYGBIV, optics, atmospheric windows, neat telescope facts) |
| Chapter 7: Starlight and Atoms (Wien's Law, blackbody radiation, how spectra are created, Kirchoff's laws, spectral types and the Balmer thermometer) |
| Chapter 8: The Sun -- Our Star |
| Chapter 9: Measuring Stars (trigonometric parallax, distance modulus, the H-R diagram, spectroscopic parallax) |
| Chapter 10: Binary Stars (and finding stellar masses directly) |
| Chapter 11: The Interstellar Medium (21-cm radiation, densities, molecules, great visuals!) |
| Chapter 12: The Formation of Stars |
| Chapter 13: The Life Cycles of Stars |
| Chapter 14: The Deaths of Stars |
| Chapter 15: Neutron Stars, Black Holes, etc. |
| Chapter 16: The Milky Way -- Our Galaxy |
| Chapter 17: Other Galaxies |
| Chapter 18: Peculiar Galaxies |
| Chapter 19: Cosmology and the Big Bang |
| Chapter 20: Origin of the Solar System |
| Chapter 21: The Earth |
| Chapter 22: The Moon and Mercury |
| Chapter 23: Venus and Mars |
| Chapter 24: Jupiter and Saturn |
| Chapter 25: Uranus, Neptune, Pluto |
| Chapter 26: Meteorites, Asteroids, and Comets |