Welcome! This library research guide provides an introduction to library resources related to Astronomy courses.
This guide will assist you in finding books, e-books, scholarly journal articles, streaming videos, websites, and more that will help you research topics in this subject.
Astronomy is defined as:
"the study of objects and matter outside the earth's atmosphere and of their physical and chemical properties. Astronomy is the scientific study of the universe as a whole and of objects that exist naturally in space, such as the Moon, planets, stars, and galaxies. The Sun is a rather typical star moving around the center of the Milky Way at a distance of 25,000 light years. This Milky Way, our galaxy, is made of hundreds of millions of stars with vast empty regions and diffuse gas in between all held together by gravity. There are at least another hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe."
Text: "Astronomy." Computer Sciences. Ed. K. Lee Lerner and Brenda Wilmoth Lerner. 2nd ed. Vol. 3: Social Applications. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2013. 26-29. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 31 May 2016.
