The cosmos :
Pasachoff, Jay M.,
The cosmos : astronomy in the new millennium / Jay M. Pasachoff (Williams College, Massachusetts), Alex Filippenko (University of California, Berkeley). - Fifth edition. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, c2019 - xxiii, 707 pages : color illustrations
Includes appendices, glossary and index
A grand tour of the heavens -- Light, matter, and energy : powering 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 solar system and others -- Our star : 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.
English
9781108431385 [paperback]
2018022366
Astronomy.
520 P26 2019
The cosmos : astronomy in the new millennium / Jay M. Pasachoff (Williams College, Massachusetts), Alex Filippenko (University of California, Berkeley). - Fifth edition. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, c2019 - xxiii, 707 pages : color illustrations
Includes appendices, glossary and index
A grand tour of the heavens -- Light, matter, and energy : powering 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 solar system and others -- Our star : 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.
English
9781108431385 [paperback]
2018022366
Astronomy.
520 P26 2019