With this newly revised 6th edition of ASTRONOMY: THE SOLAR SYSTEM AND BEYOND, Mike Seeds and Dana
Backman's goal is to help students use astronomy to understand science and use science to understand
what we are. Fascinating and engaging, this text illustrates the scientific method and guides students
to these fundamental questions: "What are we?" and "How do we know?" In discussing the interplay between
evidence and hypothesis, The authors provide not just facts, but a conceptual framework for understanding
the logic of science. The book vividly conveys their love of astronomy, and illustrates how students can
comprehend their place in the universe by grasping a small set of physical laws. Crafting a story about
astronomy, The authors show students how to ask questions to gradually puzzle out the beautiful secrets
of the physical world. With the use of mathematics set off in boxes, the book's presentation is flexible
and allows instructors to teach to differing student levels. This is the only Seeds/Backman text to be
written using a traditional planets-first approach. The revision addresses new developments in astrophysics
and cosmology, plus the latest discoveries, from Mars' buried water to proto-galaxies at the limits of the
observable universe.

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