| Chapter 1 : | Intro to the Night Sky, Constellations & Planetarium Software. |
| Chapter 2 : | Orbital Motion and Weightlessness |
| Chapter 3 : | Nature of the Spectrum |
| Chapter 4 : | Earth's Core |
| Chapter 5 : | Telescopes |
| Chapter 6 : | Moon Phases |
| Chapter 7 : | How Astronomers Gauge Distances to Planets |
| Chapter 8 : | Planetary Densities |
| Chapter 9 : | Jupiter's Moons |
| Chapter 10 : | Collecting Meteoritic Dust |
| Chapter 11 : | Energy production in the Sun |
| Chapter 12 : | Parallax |
| Chapter 13 : | The HR diagram |
| Chapter 14 : | What Would it be Like to Fall into a Black Hole? |
| Chapter 15 : | How We Measure the Mass of the Galaxy |
| Chapter 16 : | Cosmological Red Shift |
| Chapter 17 : | The Big Bang |
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