Designed to help students better understand how science works and how it impacts their daily lives, What's Up with Astronomy? provides readers with an illuminating discussion of how astronomy became a science, the lived experiences and contributions of key astronomers throughout time, and how modern scientific theories are questioned and checked.

The opening chapter illustrates how Earth's rotation gives us the day, Earth's orbit gives us the year, Earth's tilt gives us the seasons, and the moon's orbit gives us the month—immediately showing students...