BOOK COVER -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1: THE MILKY WAY GALAXY -- THE STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS OF THE MILKY WAY GALAXY -- STRUCTURE OF THE SPIRAL SYSTEM -- MAGNETIC FIELD -- ROTATION -- MASS -- STAR POPULATIONS AND MOVEMENT -- STARS AND STELLAR POPULATIONS -- DENSITY DISTRIBUTION -- STELLAR MOTIONS -- SOLAR MOTION -- CHAPTER 2: STARS -- THE NATURE OF STARS -- SIZE AND ACTIVITY -- DISTANCES TO THE STARS -- STELLAR POSITIONS -- LIGHT FROM THE STARS -- STELLAR MAGNITUDES -- STELLAR SPECTRA -- SPECTRAL ANALYSIS -- BULK STELLAR PROPERTIES -- STELLAR STATISTICS -- VARIABLE STARS -- STELLAR ATMOSPHERES -- STELLAR INTERIORS -- CHAPTER 3: STAR FORMATION AND EVOLUTION -- BIRTH OF STARS AND EVOLUTION TO THE MAIN SEQUENCE -- SUBSEQUENT DEVELOPMENT ON THE MAIN SEQUENCE -- LATER STAGES OF EVOLUTION -- EVOLUTION OF LOW-MASS STARS -- ORIGIN OF THE CHEMICAL ELEMENTS -- EVOLUTION OF HIGH-MASS STARS -- END STATES OF STARS -- WHITE DWARFS -- NEUTRON STARS -- BLACK HOLES -- CHAPTER 4: STAR CLUSTERS -- OPEN CLUSTERS -- GLOBULAR CLUSTERS -- OB AND T ASSOCIATIONS -- DYNAMICS OF STAR CLUSTERS -- CLUSTERS IN EXTERNAL GALAXIES -- NOTABLE STARS AND STAR CLUSTERS -- 51 PEGASI -- ALPHA CENTAURI -- ARCTURUS -- BETELGEUSE -- DENEB -- FOMALHAUT -- PLEIADES -- POLARIS -- SIRIUS -- VEGA -- CHAPTER 5: NEBULAE -- CLASSES OF NEBULAE -- EARLY OBSERVATIONS OF NEBULAE -- THE WORK OF THE HERSCHELS -- ADVANCES BROUGHT BY PHOTOGRAPHY AND SPECTROSCOPY -- 20TH-CENTURY DISCOVERIES -- CHEMICAL COMPOSITION AND PHYSICAL PROCESSES -- INTERSTELLAR DUST -- TURBULENCE -- GALACTIC MAGNETIC FIELD -- MOLECULAR CLOUDS -- HYDROGEN CLOUDS -- REFLECTION NEBULAE -- H II REGION -- PLANETARY NEBULAE -- SUPERNOVA REMNANTS -- DIFFUSE IONIZED GAS -- NOTABLE NEBULAE -- CASSIOPEIA A -- COALSACK -- GREAT RIFT -- GUM NEBULA -- HORSEHEAD NEBULA -- LAGOON NEBULA -- NORTH AMERICAN NEBULA.

ORION NEBULA -- R MONOCEROTIS -- RING NEBULA -- TRIFID NEBULA -- CHAPTER 6: GALAXIES -- THE EVOLUTION OF GALAXIES -- HISTORICAL SURVEY OF THE STUDY OF GALAXIES -- THE PROBLEM OF THE MAGELLANIC CLOUDS -- NOVAE IN THE ANDROMEDA NEBULA -- THE SCALE OF THE MILKY WAY GALAXY -- THE VAN MAANEN ROTATION -- THE SHAPLEY-CURTIS DEBATE -- HUBBLE'S DISCOVERY OF EXTRAGALACTIC OBJECTS -- THE DISTANCE TO THE ANDROMEDA NEBULA -- THE GOLDEN AGE OF EXTRAGALACTIC ASTRONOMY -- TYPES OF GALAXIES -- PRINCIPAL SCHEMES OF CLASSIFICATION -- OTHER CLASSIFICATION SCHEMES AND GALAXY TYPES -- THE EXTERNAL GALAXIES -- THE EXTRAGALACTIC DISTANCE SCALE -- PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF EXTERNAL GALAXIES -- STRUCTURE -- GALAXY CLUSTERS -- GALAXIES AS A RADIO SOURCE -- NOTABLE GALAXIES AND GALAXY CLUSTERS -- ANDROMEDA GALAXY -- COMA CLUSTER -- CYGNUS A -- GREAT ATTRACTOR -- MAGELLANIC CLOUDS -- M81 GROUP -- MAFFEI I AND II -- VIRGO A -- VIRGO CLUSTER -- APPENDIX: OTHER STARS AND STAR CLUSTERS -- 61 CYGNI -- ALCOR -- ALDEBARAN -- ALGOL -- ANTARES -- BARNARD'S STAR -- BETA LYRAE -- BETA PICTORIS -- CANOPUS -- CAPELLA -- CASTOR -- COR CAROLI -- CYGNUS X-1 -- DELTA CEPHEI -- EPSILON AURIGAE -- ETA CARINAE -- GEMINGA -- HD 209458 -- HR 8799 -- HYADES -- KEPLER'S NOVA -- MIRA CETI -- MIZAR -- NOVA HERCULIS -- NOVA PERSEI -- OMEGA CENTAURI -- PLEIONE -- POLLUX -- PRAESEPE -- PROCYON -- RAS ALGETHI -- REGULUS -- RIGEL -- SCORPIUS X-1 -- S DORADUS -- SPICA -- SUPERNOVA 1987A -- TYCHO'S NOVA -- GLOSSARY -- FOR FURTHER READING -- INDEX -- BACK COVER.