Maintained by the author, students and computing professionals, Teach Astronomy is part website and part free online astronomy textbook. The author is Dr. Chris Impey – Distinguished Professor of Astronomy at The University of Arizona. He leads the nation’s largest undergraduate astronomy majors program, the 2nd largest astronomy PhD program and one of the largest programs teaching astronomy to non-science majors.
One of my favorite parts of Astropedia Textbook: Universe Revealed is the effective use of web programming. Instead of sending students off to a glossary to find the definitions of key terms, students simply have to hover their mouse over the highlighted terms to see their definition. The textbook is intended for all audiences and carries no prerequisites.
Chapters in Astropedia Textbook: Universe Revealed
- How Science Works
- The First Discoveries About Earth and Sky
- The Copernican Revolution
- Matter and Energy in the Universe
- The Earth-Moon System
- The Terrestrial Planets
- The Giant Planets and Their Moons
- Interplanetary Bodies
- How Planetary Systems Form
- Detecting Radiation from Space
- Our Sun: The Nearest Star
- Properties of Stars
- Star Birth and Death
- The Milky Way
- Galaxies
- The Expanding Universe
- Cosmology
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Teach Astronomy
