Astronomy: The Solar System and Beyond

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 understandin