The Future of the Universe

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: To Begin With -- Us and Them -- Going Places -- CH 1 The Heat of the Sun -- Where the Sun Gets Its Energy -- How the Sun Reached Its Present State -- How the Sun Has Changed -- The Sun's Next Stages -- The Sun's Final Stages -- CH 2 The Mobile Earth -- Earthquakes and the Earth's Interior -- Changes in the Earth's Core -- Changes in the Mantle -- Continental Drift and Supercontinents -- The Future of the Mobile Earth -- CH 3 The Earth's Oceans and Atmosphere -- Movements in the Atmosphere -- Movements in the Oceans -- Absorbing the Sunlight -- The Earth and the Moon -- Gases in the Atmosphere -- The Future of the Atmosphere and Oceans -- CH 4 Magnetic Earth and Magnetic Sun -- The Source of the Earth's Magnetism -- The Future of the Earth's Magnetism -- The Source of the Sun's Magnetism -- The Future of the Sun's Magnetism -- The Solar Wind -- Losing an Atmosphere -- CH 5 Impact -- Meteors and Meteorites -- Craters on the Moon -- Impacts on the Earth -- The Asteroids -- Forecasting Future Impacts -- Comets -- CH 6 The Solar System -- The Moon and Mercury -- Venus -- Mars -- The Giant Planets and Their Satellites -- CH 7 Our Galaxy -- The Sun's Path -- The Sun and Nearby Stars -- Interstellar Matter -- Supernovae -- Spiral Arms -- The Evolving Galaxy -- And What About Life -- CH 8 Galaxies -- The Galactic Halo -- The Local Group -- Galactic Harassment and Cannibalism -- The Galaxy and Dark Matter -- Galaxies and Clusters -- The Virgo Supercluster -- CH 9 The Universe -- Superclusters -- The Expanding Universe -- Life in the Universe -- But Have We Got It Right? -- Further Reading -- Index -- Last Page.