The cosmos : astronomy in the new millennium / Jay M. Pasachoff (Williams College, Massachusetts), Alex Filippenko (University of California, Berkeley).
Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, c2019Edition: Fifth editionDescription: xxiii, 707 pages : color illustrationsContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781108431385 [paperback]
- 520 P26 2019
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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.
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