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UNIT I READING LIST

Space Laws: Who will make them?
Seeing Through an Unblinking Eye (IKONOS looks below at Earth)
Painting the Universe. (The space art of Chesney Bonestell)
Magic At Two Microns. (Mapping the heat of the cosmos)
Diving For Spacecraft. (The recovery of Gus Grissom's Mercury capsule)
The Planetarium Revolution. (Including PJC's Digistar)
Eclipse Chasers on Safari. (Totality in South Africa)
Keepers Of The Night. (a visit to Mount Palomar)
on the road with John Dobson, the great promoter of amateur astronomy.
Cybertrackers. (Using the Internet to make astronmical discoveries)
Digitizing Glass (turning old glass plates into a digital sky catalog.
Happy Trails. (simple, cheap, but striking beginning astrophotography)
Binoculars for astronomy.
Is the Universe Irish? (The color green in astronomy and the visible spectrum)
Primetime. (the competition for observing time on the great telescopes)
Discovering Cosmic Rays. (highest energy photons that still baffle astronomers)
Showered In Mystery. (new telescope to focus on cosmic ray sources)
Military Magic Boosts Civilian Astronomy. (trickle-down effect of new technologies in the military)
Space Junk (what goes up must come down, and not always when and where you want it).
Stars Shine over Tinseltown. (LA and astronomy)
How to become a professional astronomer.
Women in professional astronomy today.
Catch a Gravity Wave. (putting Einstein to the test)
Observing Like a Pro. (Kitt Peak has advanced scopes available to well-heeled amateurs)
Beyond the Rainbow. (the vast portion of the EM spectrum that we cannot see)
Interview With An Alien. (Tim Reed of Star Trek, a devoted amateur astronomer)
Probing the Cosmic Depths. Japan's new Suburu Telescope in Hawaii)
Exploring the Digital Darkroom. (electronic image processing for amateurs)
Rounding the Earth. Discovery of the Earth's true shape)
Painting Space. (Ludek Pesek, astronomical artist par excellence)
The Sky Down Under. (the stars you never see from here)
Getting Started in astrophotography.
SETI and the Science Wars. (Politics and the search for ET)
Galileo's Daughter. (a family diary from the birth of modern astronomy...very good!)
The Grand Illusion.
Telescopes that fly.
T is for telescope.
Blasting along the Infobahn.
Astronomy's future.
How to beat light pollution.
Students in cyberspace.
Come-as-you-are Astrophotography.
The remarkable odyssey of Jane Luu.
Tilt-a-whirl astronomy.
Journey to the outer limits.
Neptune's discovery 150 years later.
Lunar windows to the heavens.
Gerard de Vaucouleurs: Astronomical Free Thinker.
Star Maps Are a Gazer's Best Friend.
The Space Station and astronomy.
Toward a new Hubble.
Peeling away the overcast.
Tell time by the big dipper.
Astronomy from the South Pole.
Get ready for a (Star) party.
Choosing a good binocular for astronomy.
A field guide to UFOs.
Reinventing the planetarium.
Blue sky gazing.
Meade's ETX compact telescope.
New image intensifiers.
Inca Astronomy.
Getting kids involved in astronomy.
Getting the right start.
Sharpening the stars.
NASA's next space observatories.
When the apple falls.
Observing satellites.
Keck trekking.
Policing the universe.
The 25 greatest astronomical discoveries.
Astronomy's archangel.
Onward Into Space.
When I Heard the Learn'd Theologians.
High Priests of Astronomy.
Gifts for Young Astronomers.
Magnitude Cum Laude.
The Hubble heritage project
Kid's corner - Blast off!
Stars and Strips Forever.
King of the Mountain.
MileHigh Astronomy.
What the Artist Sees.
Cosmic Flood.
Enlightenment.
John Kraus: Radio Astronomy Pioneer.
Reasons for the Seasons.
The Spacecraft's Got Swing.
Architects of Time.
The Art of SKYSPEAK.
UNIT II READING LIST
TARGET EARTH. (The likelihood of a major asteroid impact)
The Perfect Storm. (The Great Leonid Meteor shower of November 18, 2001)
Mars Exploration in the Next Decade.
Chasing a Comet. (Deep Space I catches Comet Borrelly)
Life under the ice? (Europa and its oceans).
Stepping Stones To Mars. (Near Earth Asteroids as human exploration targets)
MARS Returns To Glory. (the close approach to Earth in the summer of 2001)
A NEAR Look at Eros.
In Search of Fresh Fall. (1998 meteorite and the search for pieces of it in New Mexico)
Home Sweet Spheres. (the range of bodies in our solar system)
Back to Mars. (Discoveries from Pathfinder and Global Surveyor)
Earth is a Planet, too. (Radar Maps of our home world from space)
Best comets of the 20th century.
Red Planet Renaissance. (new discoveries make life more probable)
Colors on the Moon? (CCD imaging lets us study the Moon's composition)
Mysterious sungrazers.
Interplanetary fugitives.
The Titan/Triton connection.
Motes in the solar system's eye.
Death from the sky.
The odd little moons of Mars.
Return to the moon?
Apollo's gift: The Moon.
Chiron interloper from the Kuiper Disk?
The first new planet.
Fire fountains on the moon.
Making sense out of the Great comet crash.
A friend for life - habitable planets
Messengers from Mars.
Target: Earth!
The Mars that never was.
The day the dinosaurs died.
Are we alone in the universe?
Hyakutake's spring surprise.
Saturn's missing rings.
The red planet's colorful past.
Observing Hale-Bopp's finale.
Venus Unveiled.
Collecting meteorites.
Was the universe designed for life?
Charting the moon by eye.
Heidi Hammel and her gas giants.
The new Martian chronicles.
Looking for life on Mars.
When E.T. calls us.
Diving into Europa's ocean.
Frozen assets.
Pathfinder on Mars.
Cassini bound for the ringed planet.
Destination Titan.
Digging for gold.
Red rover, red rover.
From pebbles to planets.
Pathfinder's 3-D extravaganza.
Wanted: Life bearing planets.
Making an exceptional impact.
Crack in the clockwork.
Galileo at Jupiter.
Ruling the rings.
The great solar system revision.
Making our moon.
Seeing spots.
Solar System Redeux.
Leo's incandescent rain.
Jupiter's Gossamer Rings.
Planetary Face-off.
GoodPlanets Are Hard to Find.
Divining on Mars.
Ice Cream Sundaes & Mashed Potatoes.
Naming the Man in the Moon.
Forging a New Solar System.
Planetary Oracles.
Comet Stalker.
Exploring Crater Rays.
The Real Men in Black.
Is Pluto really a Planet?
Meteorites on Ice.
Cassini's Nuclear Risk.
Crater Crazy.
Unit III READING LIST
Caught in the Tarantula's's web. (starbirth in the LMC)
Setting Sail for the Stars. (solar sails for future space exploration)
The Making of an Aurora. (the discovery of the Sun-earth magnetic connection)
Probing the Birth of Starlight. (Hans Bethe discovers how stars shine)
Quasars Next Door. (neutron stars or black holes as min-quasars)
Discovering Worlds In Transit. (planets passing in front of other sunlike stars)
'We Are All Star Stuff.' (giant stars making the atoms and molecules that become us)
Sunsational Photography. (Our star by hydrogen alpha light)
Putting Stars In Their Place. (the birth of the HR diagram)
Cosmic Intrigue. (Globular Clusters and the early days of the galaxies)
Recipe for Disaster. (interacting binaries and type Ia supernovae)
Speed Matters. (catching the fading light from Gamma Ray Burstars)
Cosmic Gambler. (Frank Shu on star formation and Royal Flushes)
Come To The Dark Side. (the stuff that makes us up and hides the Galaxy from us)
Bursting the Bubbles. (Planetary Nebulae formation)
The Strangest Matter. (the stuff of neutron stars)
Extrasolar planets (Hunting Planets Beyond.)
Switched at Birth. (the origin of gas giant planets)
Reaching for the Sun. (discovery of stellar compositions)
Solar Curtain Call.
When the Solar Wind Blows.
Quaking Sun.
Demon variables.
Exploring our galactic neighbors.
Heating the solar corona.
Seeing a star's surface.
The star that blew a hole in space.
Hypergiants.
Ashes to ashes.
Stellar oddballs.
Where have all the black holes gone?
The new stars of M42.
Journey to the heart of the sun.
Discover the daytime star.
Polaris, the code-blue star.
Glows, bands & curtains.
Needles in the cosmic haystack.
Epsilon Eridani: The once & future sun.
Second chance planets.
Cosmic Pillars - stellar collisions.
Lone star infants.
Seeing the unseen.
White dwarfs confront the universe.
Cosmic billiards.
Starmaker.
Plunge into the lagoon.
Faint balls of fire.
A brown dwarf in the neighborhood?
The excesses of young stars.
Eta Carinae: Star on the brink.
Extreme stars.
Blowing cosmic bubbles.
Blue Globulars.
Probing our local cloud.
The strange new planetary zoo.
When neutron stars collide.
Inside a star's cocoon.
Stellar records.
Ka-boom! How stars explode.
Dusty infant stars.
Angry giants of the universe.
The triumph of Hipparcos.
How stars shine.
The story of starbirth.
Stars' last gasps.
Interstellar trekking.
Planet hunters.
Puzzling parallax.
Blowin' in the solar wind.
Into the maelstrom.
Spying on planetary nurseries.
Neutron Stars With Attitude.
Catching cosmic ghosts.
The Supernova Guru.
The Little Stars That Couldn't.
UNIT IV READING LIST
Who Will Inherit The Universe? (the future of intelligent life...)
Lurking in the Shadows. (the strange universe of dark matter and energy)
Red Scare at Harvard. (Harlow Shapley and J. Edgar Hoover)
From Here To Eternity. (the accelerating universe, powered by dark energy)
Listening For E.T. (the real "Contact")
Celebrating The Galatic Millennium. (future of the Milky Way Galaxy)
Nothing Gets Strung Out. (string theory and space-time dimensions)
The Milky Way From The Inside. (great panaroma of the whole galaxy)
Heart Of Darkness. (The Black Hole at the Center of the Milky Way)
Out Of Sight, Out Of MOND. (the dark matter controversy revisited)
What's Water got to do with it?. (Water and life in the cosmos)
Inside-Out Cosmology. (particle physics and the Big Bang)
The 8 Greatest Mysteries Of Cosmology.
Is Earth Unique? (Why haven't we already discovered life elsewhere?)
Here, There, and Everywhere? (the growth of the earliest galaxies)
Predicting The Past. (giant telescopes as time machines)
Embracing The End. (the future of forever)
Unveiling the Flat Universe. (dark energy overcomes dark matter)
Just 6 Numbers. (that determine the nature of everything)
Hubble Warrior. (Wendy Freedman and the debate over the age of the universe)
Exodus from Earth.
Beyond the big bang.
COBE's big bang!
Journey into the galaxy.
Have astronomers solved the quasar engima?
Counting to the edge of the universe.
What puts the spiral in spiral galaxies?
In the beginning.
Intruder galaxies.
Observing the local group with the naked eye.
Everything you wanted to know about the big bang.
Our new! Improved! Cluster of galaxies.
Seven mysteries of galaxies.
The debut of galaxies.
Galaxy time machine.
What lies at the Milky Way's center?
Fires at cosmic dawn.
How old is the universe?.
Curtains at the edge of the universe.
Gamma ray bursters: Near or far?
Our strange, scrappy ancestors.
Globulars and the age of the universe.
Of wormholes and spacetime paradoxes.
What happened before the Big Bang?
Ghost galaxies of the cosmos.
A river in the universe.
Is M33 younger than the Milky Way.
Dark matter and the fate of the universe.
The new dark age of astronomy.
The dark side of the galaxy.
Ghosts in the cosmic machine.
Galaxies colliding in the night.
To Kill a Galaxy.
How galaxies evolve.
Observing gas clouds in galaxies.
What is dark matter?
Inflating the cosmos.
Why does the universe exist?
Before galaxies were galaxies.
Gravity's rainbow.
The core of the Milky Way.
Cooking up a cosmos.
Rogue planets.
Allan Sandage.
On becoming the material world.
When galaxies were young.
Cosmic Jekyll & Hyde.
Mastering the mysterious.
To the edge of space and time.
A beast in the core.
When galaxies were born.
Exploding stars tell all.
Devouring the Future.
Mastering the Universe.
Passing the Bar Exam.
Galactic Genesis.
Black Hole Hunters.
Clusters in Collision.
Virtual Astronomy.
Give Peas a Chance.

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