The cosmos : astronomy in the new millennium /
| Основен автор: | Pasachoff, Jay M. |
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| Други автори: | Filippenko, Alexei V. |
| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Belmont, CA :
Thomson-Brooks/Cole,
c2007.
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| Издание: | 3rd ed. |
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Съдържание:
- A grand tour of the heavens
- Lights, matters, and energy: power the universe
- Light and telescopes: Extending our senses
- Observing the stars and planets: clockwork of the universe
- Gravitation and motion: the early history of astronomy
- The terrestrial planets: earth, moon and their relatives
- The jovian planets: windswept giants
- Pluto, comets, and space debris
- Our system and others
- Our stars: the sun
- Stars: Distant suns
- How the stars shine: cosmic furnaces
- The death of stars: recycling
- Black holes: the end of space and time
- The milky way: our home in the universe
- A universe of galaxies
- Quasars and active galaxies
- Cosmology: the birth and life of the cosmos
- In the beginning
- Life in the universe.