Astronomy Essentials

Michele M. Montgomery’s Astronomy Essentials is an interactive and moving e-textbook: It incorporates animation using digital video players and videos within the body of the text for the visual and/or audio learner. This series includes Part 1: Background and Basics; Part 2: Solar and Exosolar Systems; Part 3: Sun, Space Weather, and Formation; Part 4: Stars and Stellar Evolution; Part 5: End Products & Binary Star Evolution; Part 6: Galaxies. It includes the latest information in astronomy such as Earth’s mini-moons and merging binary blackholes that emit gravitational waves. This series also includes space weather in our study of the Sun and a chapter on binary star evolution.