Basic astronomy

Author: Liu Xuefu
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Publish Date: 2005-02-01
Features: "Fundamentals of Astronomy" is a national-level planning teaching material for the 15th Five-Year Plan of general higher education. This book is suitable for students of science and arts at universities. Chapters marked with are mandatory reading for astronomy majors, while students from non-astronomy majors can choose to read them. The book explains the laws of celestial body movements, the solar system, galaxy clusters, the evolution of the universe, and new astronomical research results from nearby to distant. It also provides nearly twenty examples of astronomical observations and experiments, along with related problems.