Beschreibung:
1. The urge to explore -- 2. From speculation to understanding -- 3. The planets of the Solar System -- 4. Life and death of stars -- 5. Origin of the Solar System -- 6. Earth : model of planetary evolution -- 7. The clockwork of the Solar System -- 8. Meteorites and impact craters -- 9. The Earth-Moon system -- 10. Mercury : too hot for comfort -- 11. Venus : planetary evolution gone bad -- 12. Mars : the little planet that could -- 13. Asteroids : shattered worlds -- 14. Jupiter : heavy-weight champion -- 15. Galilean satellites : jewels of the Solar System -- 16. Saturn : the beauty of rings -- 17. Titan : an ancient world in deep freeze -- 18. Uranus : what happened here? -- 19. Neptune : more surprises -- 20. Pluto and Charon : the odd couple -- 21. Ice worlds at the outer limit -- 22. Comets : coming inside from the cold -- 23. Earth : the cradle of humans -- 24. Brown-dwarf stars and extrasolar planets