The Introduction to Modern Astrophysics by Carroll and Ostlie is a comprehensive, well-organized, and exciting book that covers every important area of modern astrophysics - from the solar system and stellar astronomy to galactic and extragalactic astrophysics, as well as cosmology. Designed to provide a contemporary understanding of astrophysics, this book is suitable for students of Physics and Mathematics departments who have taken an introductory physics course with the corresponding mathematics.

It includes concise summaries of the major scientific discoveries that have led to the modern understanding of the universe, solved examples to facilitate the understanding of the presented topics, unsolved problems at the end of each chapter for practicing acquired skills, as well as computational problems for numerical modeling of astronomical systems. It is the most suitable handbook for astrophysics and the significant scientific advancements in this field.