Hutchinson Trends in Science: Astronomy -- Preface -- Table of contents -- Overview: astronomy in the 20th century -- introduction -- tools of the astronomer -- radio astronomy -- other astronomies -- rise of planetary science -- Sun and the stars -- galaxies -- cosmology -- recent and forthcoming advances -- Chronology -- Biographical sketches -- Alpher, Ralph Asher (1921- ) -- Baade, (Wilhelm Heinrich) Walter (1893-1960) -- Babcock, Harold Delos (1882-1968) -- Bell Burnell, (Susan) Jocelyn (1943- ) -- life -- the discovery of pulsars -- Bok, Bart J(an) (1906-1983) -- Bondi, Hermann (1919-2005) -- Bowen, Ira Sprague (1898-1973) -- Brown, Robert Hanbury (1916-2002) -- Burbidge, (Eleanor) Margaret (1919- ) -- born Margaret Peachey -- Burbidge, Geoffrey (1925- ) -- Cannon, Annie Jump (1863-1941) -- Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan (1910-1995) -- De Vaucouleurs, Gerard Henri (1918-1995) -- Dicke, Robert Henry (1916-1997) -- Eddington, Arthur Stanley (1882-1944) -- Fowler, William Alfred (1911-1995) -- nuclear synthesis in stars -- life -- calculating helium abundance -- Gamow, George (1904-1968) -- born Georgi Antonovich Gamow -- life -- radioactive decay -- hot Big Bang -- DNA -- Giacconi, Riccardo (1931- ) -- Gold, Thomas (1920- ) -- Hale, George Ellery (1868-1938) -- Hawking, Stephen (William) (1942- ) -- Hertzsprung, Ejnar (1873-1967) -- Hewish, Antony (1924- ) -- Hey, James Stanley (1909-2000) -- Hoyle, Fred(erick) (1915-2001) -- Hubble, Edwin (Powell) (1889-1953) -- Hulst, van de, Hendrik Christoffel (1918-2000) -- Humason, Milton Lasell (1891-1972) -- Jansky, Karl Guthe (1905-1950) -- Korolev, Sergei Pavlovich (1906-1966) -- Kuiper, Gerard Peter (1905-1973) -- Leavitt, Henrietta Swan (1868-1921) -- Lemaître, Georges Edouard (1894-1966) -- Lovell, (Alfred Charles) Bernard (1913- ) -- Lowell, Percival (1855-1916) -- Lynden-Bell, Donald (1935- ).

Maury, Antonia Caetana de Paiva Pereira (1866-1952) -- Minkowski, Rudolph Leo (1895-1976) -- Moore, Patrick (Alfred Caldwell) (1923- ) -- Neugebauer, Gerry (1932- ) -- born Gerald Neugebauer -- Oort, Jan Hendrik (1900-1992) -- Öpik, Ernst Julius (1893-1985) -- Payne-Gaposchkin, Cecilia Helena (1900-1979) -- born Cecilia Payne -- Penrose, Roger (1931- ) -- life -- black holes -- a new model of the universe -- books -- Penzias, Arno Allan (1933- ) -- life -- the discovery of background radiation -- later work -- Reber, Grote (1911-2002) -- Russell, Henry Norris (1877-1957) -- Ryle, Martin (1918-1984) -- Sagan, Carl Edward (1934-1996) -- Sandage, Allan Rex (1926- ) -- Seyfert, Carl Keenan (1911-1960) -- Shapley, Harlow (1885-1972) -- Slipher, Vesto Melvin (1875-1969) -- Spitzer, Lyman (1914-1997) -- Struve, Otto von (1897-1963) -- Tombaugh, Clyde William (1906-1997) -- Trumpler, Robert Julius (1886-1956) -- Van Allen, James Alfred (1914- ) -- Vorontsov-Vel'iaminov, Boris Aleksandrovich (1904-1994) -- Whipple, Fred Lawrence (1906-2004) -- Wilson, Robert Woodrow (1936- ) -- Zwicky, Fritz (1898-1974) -- Web sites -- Alan Shepard Profile -- Apollo 11 -- Armstrong, Neil -- Ask the Space Scientist -- Asteroid and Comet Impact Hazards -- Asteroid Introduction -- Auroras: Paintings in the Sky -- Bad Astronomy -- Brief History of Cosmology -- British Interplanetary Society -- Comet Hale-Bopp -- Comet Shoemaker-Levy Collision with Jupiter -- Doomsday Asteroid -- Dr Clyde Tombaugh Profile -- Earth and Moon Viewer -- Earth Introduction -- Eddington, Arthur Stanley -- Europa -- European Southern Observatory -- European Space Agency -- Gagarin, Yuri -- Galileo: Journey to Jupiter -- Galileo Project Information -- Inquirer's Guide to the Universe -- Jodrell Bank Observatory -- J-Track Satellite Tracker -- Jupiter -- Kennedy Space Center.

Kitt Peak National Observatory -- Korolev, Sergei P -- Learning Centre for Young Astronomers -- Little Green Men, White Dwarfs, or Pulsars? -- Lunar Eclipse Computer -- Magellan Mission to Venus -- Mars Meteorites -- Mauna Kea Observatories -- Mercury -- Meteors, Meteorites, and Impacts -- Mission Mars -- Moon -- Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories -- Mount Wilson Observatory -- Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory -- NASA -- NASA Shuttle Web -- National Astronomy and Ionosphere Centre -- Neptune -- Nine Planets -- Parkes Observatory Home Page -- Phases of the Moon 2001-2005 -- Picture Gallery -- Planetary Image Finders -- Planetary Sciences at the National Space Science Data Center -- Planetary Society -- Pluto -- Practical Guide to Astronomy -- Report of the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident -- Rocketry Online -- Royal Observatory Greenwich -- Saturn -- SETI Institute -- Shapley-Curtis Debate in 1920 -- Sky and Telescope -- Solar Eclipse -- Solar System Live -- Stars and Constellations -- Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy -- Sun -- Sun and Moon Data for One Day -- Sunspots -- Telescope Buying Guide -- Unsolved Mysteries -- Uranus -- Venus Introduction -- Views of the Solar System -- Virtual Mars -- Virtual Reality Moon Phase Pictures -- Welcome to Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory -- Yerkes Observatory -- Glossary -- aberration of starlight -- aberration of starlight -- absolute magnitude -- absorption lines -- acceleration, secular -- accretion -- accretion disc -- achondrite -- active galaxy -- albedo -- almucantar -- altazimuth -- altitude -- or elevation -- annular eclipse -- anthropic principle -- apastron -- aperture synthesis -- aphelion -- apogee -- apparent -- arc minute -- symbol ' -- argument -- argument -- ashen light -- asterism -- asteroid -- recent research -- astrometry.

astronaut -- astronautics -- astronomical unit -- AU -- astronomy -- Greek astronomers -- Arab revival -- the Sun at the centre -- Galileo and the telescope -- further discoveries -- galaxies -- a growing universe -- further exploration -- astrophotography -- astrophysics -- aurora -- autumnal equinox -- azimuth -- Baily's beads -- Big Bang -- Big Crunch -- binary star -- black hole -- blue shift -- Bode's law -- or Titius-Bode law -- bolometric magnitude -- brown dwarf -- captured rotation -- or synchronous rotation -- carbon cycle -- Cassegrain telescope -- or Cassegrain reflector -- Cassini division -- celestial mechanics -- celestial sphere -- celestial sphere -- centaur -- Cepheid variable -- Chandrasekhar limit -- or Chandrasekhar mass -- chondrite -- chondrule -- chromosphere -- (Greek chromos 'colour', sphaira 'sphere') -- circumpolar -- circumpolar star -- CNO cycle -- cold dark matter -- colour index -- coma -- comet -- names, visibility, and disintegration -- recent research -- comet -- short- and long-period comets -- names, visibility, and disintegration -- Hale-Bopp -- recent research -- conjunction -- constellation -- ancient origins -- gradual rationalization -- modern system -- constellation -- corona -- cosmic background radiation -- or 3° radiation -- cosmic radiation -- cosmogony -- (Greek cosmos 'universe' and gonia 'creation') -- cosmological principle -- cosmology -- cosmonaut -- crater -- crater -- crescent -- critical density -- dark cloud -- dark matter -- day -- declination -- density wave -- disc -- distance modulus -- double star -- Earth -- mean distance from the Sun -- equatorial diameter -- circumference -- rotation period -- year -- atmosphere -- surface -- satellite -- age -- Earth -- Earth -- Earth -- eclipse -- eclipse -- eclipse -- eclipse -- eclipsing binary -- ecliptic -- ecliptic coordinates -- ejecta.

elliptical galaxy -- elongation -- emission line -- equatorial coordinates -- equatorial mounting -- equinox -- escape velocity -- exobiology -- filament -- fireball -- fixed star -- focus -- forbidden line -- galactic coordinates -- galactic halo -- galactic plane -- galaxy -- distances -- types of galaxy -- clusters -- recent discoveries -- gamma-ray astronomy -- gas giant -- geostationary orbit -- or geostationary Earth orbit -- giant star -- globular cluster -- gravitational lensing -- heat death -- helioseismology -- heliosphere -- Hertzsprung-Russell diagram -- Hertzsprung-Russell diagram -- horizon -- hydrogen burning -- inclination -- inferior planet -- inflation -- infrared astronomy -- infrared telescope -- interferometry -- interferometry -- interplanetary matter -- interstellar cirrus -- interstellar matter -- irregular galaxy -- Jeans mass -- jet -- Julian date -- Jupiter -- mean distance from the Sun -- equatorial diameter -- rotation period -- year -- atmosphere -- composition -- satellites -- Kepler's laws -- Kirkwood gaps -- Kuiper belt -- Lagrangian points -- lens, gravitational -- lenticular galaxy -- libration -- light curve -- light second -- light year -- Local Group -- lodestar -- or loadstar -- luminosity -- or brightness -- MACHO -- magnetosphere -- magnitude -- main sequence -- mare -- plural maria -- Mars -- mean distance from the Sun -- equatorial diameter -- rotation period -- year -- atmosphere -- surface -- satellites -- Mars -- Mars -- Mars -- Maunder minimum -- Messier catalogue -- meteor -- meteorite -- meteoroid -- minor planet -- molecular cloud -- Moon -- phases -- origins -- research -- composition -- Moon -- Moon -- moon -- nadir -- nebula -- nebular hypothesis -- nemesis theory -- Neptune -- mean distance from the Sun -- equatorial diameter -- rotation period -- year -- atmosphere -- surface -- satellites.

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