Part I: Stalking the Cosmos.

Chapter 1: Seeing the Light: The Art and Science of Astronomy.

Chapter 2: Join the Crowd: Skywatching Activities and Resources.

Chapter 3: The Way You Watch Tonight: Terrific Tools for Observing the Skies.

Chapter 4: Just Passing Through: Meteors, Comets, and Artificial Satellites.

Part II: Going Once Around the Solar System.

Chapter 5: A Matched Pair: Earth and Its Moon.

Chapter 6: Earth’s Near Neighbors: Mercury, Venus, and Mars.

Chapter 7: Rock On: The Asteroid Belt and Near-Earth Objects.

Chapter 8: Great Balls of Gas: Jupiter and Saturn.

Chapter 9: Far Out! Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, and Beyond.

Part III: Meeting Old Sol and Other Stars.

Chapter 10: The Sun: Star of the Earth.

Chapter 11: Taking a Trip to the Stars.

Chapter 12: Galaxies: The Milky Way and Beyond.

Chapter 13: Digging into Black Holes and Quasars.

Part IV: Pondering the Remarkable Universe.

Chapter 14: Is Anybody Out There? SETI and Planets of Other Suns.

Chapter 15: Delving into Dark Matter and Antimatter.

Chapter 16: The Big Bang and the Evolution of the Universe.

Part V: The Part of Tens.

Chapter 17: Ten Strange Facts about Astronomy and Space.

Chapter 18: Ten Common Errors about Astronomy and Space.

Part VI: Appendixes.

Appendix A: Finding the Planets: 2006 to 2010.

Appendix B: Star Maps.

Appendix C: Glossary.

Index.