Table of Contents
Countdown Jitters Principle of Rocket Engines, Newton’s Third Law of Motion
Sky Pictures History of Constellations
Little Dipper North Star, Binary Stars, Axial Precession
Around the World Zero-G—Weightlessness in Outer Space
Children of the Sun Planets, Their Discovery, How We Lost Pluto
Ride a Rocket Planets, Asteroid Belt, Kuiper Belt, Oort Cloud
Hungry Brain Habitual Learning, Heliosphere, Termination Shock, Oort Cloud, Astronomical Units, Light Years
Inner Heat and Outer Cold Inner and Outer Planets
My Lying Eyes and Sun Center Geocentric and Heliocentric Models of the Solar System
A Superhero Revolution Aristotle, Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton
Make a Wish Meteoroid, Meteor, Meteorite, Friction and Heat
A Nice Place to Visit Moon: Mass, Gravity, Weight; Atmospheric Pressure, Boiling Temperatures
Peek-a-Boo Moon Phases of the Moon, Waxing, Waning
Turnabout is Fair Play Lunar Eclipse, Solar Eclipse
Ring Around the Sun Venus both Morning Star and Evening Star, Transit of Venus
Sunshine Science Composition of the Sun, Hydrogen Fusion Process
A Nerd Love Poem Kinds of Stars, Black Holes, Age of Light from Stars
Black Hole Brain Life Cycle of Stars, Singularity, Black Holes, Neutron Stars, White Dwarfs
Biggest? Galaxies: Size, Contents
The Wall The Paradox of Endlessness, Hubble Deep Field Image, Distribution of Galaxies
Alien Eyes? Odds of Extraterrestrial Life
My Home in the Universe Post-Copernican Angst
You Will Find Me Unnamed Stars, Celestial Coordinates
An Invitation to You