Author: Michael A. Seeds
Publisher: Brooks Cole
Keywords: galaxies, stars
Number of Pages: 463
Published: 2010-01-01
List price: $118.95
ISBN-10: 0538733179
ISBN-13: 9780538733175
Addressing the newest developments and latest discoveries in the exciting study of astronomy, this revised seventh edition of STARS AND GALAXIES helps students use astronomy to understand science and use science to understand what we are. Fascinating and engaging, STARS AND GALAXIES illustrates the scientific method and guides students to answer these fundamental questions: What are we? How do we know? In discussing the interplay between evidence and hypothesis, author Michael Seeds provides not only facts but also a conceptual framework for understanding the logic of science. Coverage include
Authors:Linda S. Sparke, John S. Gallagher III,
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: introduction, universe, galaxies
Number of Pages: 442
Published: 2007-02-05
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0521671868
ISBN-13: 9780521671866
This extensively illustrated book presents the astrophysics of galaxies since their beginnings in the early Universe. It has been thoroughly revised to take into account the most recent observational data, and recent discoveries such as dark energy. There are new sections on galaxy clusters, gamma ray bursts and supermassive black holes. The authors explore the basic properties of stars and the Milky Way before working out towards nearby galaxies and the distant Universe. They discuss the structures of galaxies and how galaxies have developed, and relate this to the evolution of the Universe.
Authors:William H. Waller, Paul W. Hodge,
Publisher: Harvard University Pre
Keywords: frontier, cosmic, galaxies
Number of Pages: 334
Published: 2003-07-31
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0674010795
ISBN-13: 9780674010796
For the past twelve billion years, galaxies have governed the Universe, bringing form to the firmament, light to the void. Each one a giant system of as many as hundreds of billions of stars, the galaxies are the building blocks of the cosmos, and through new data from modern telescopes--including the Hubble Space Telescope--we are discovering dizzying new facts about how they formed, how they evolve, and what they are made of. This book acquaints readers with these facts and findings--and with what they can tell us about the lives of galaxies over cosmic time, from their emergence shortly aft
Author: K. Wanda
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Keywords: space, science, proceedings, astrophysics, galaxies, galaxy, nearby, mapping
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2007-09-25
List price: $185.00
ISBN-10: 0387727671
ISBN-13: 9780387727677
This is a proceedings book of the symposium ’Mapping the Galaxy and Nearby Galaxies’ held on Ishigaki Island, Okinawa, Japan, on June 25 30, 2006. The symposium focused on mapping the interstellar media and other components in galaxies. Latest results of the following main topics are presented in the volume: Our Galaxy -- mass distribution, local ISM, supermassive black holes and their environments Central part of nearby galaxies -- ISM around starbursts, fueling mechanisms Nearby Galaxies -- molecular gas and star formation, gas dynamics Galactic environment and evolution -- forma
Authors:Eric Chaisson, Steve McMilla,
Publisher: Benjamin Cumming
Keywords: galaxies, stars, vol, astronomy
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 2007-07-29
List price: $82.60
ISBN-10: 0136155502
ISBN-13: 9780136155508
This straightforward volume presents a broad view of astronomy spanning known facts, evolving ideas, and frontier discoveries. The authors combine qualitative reasoning and analogies with familiar objects and phenomena to awaken readers to the excitement of the universe around them. Incorporates new understanding and emphases in contemporary astronomy, including the latest data on topics ranging from adaptive optics and solar system formation to extrasolar planets and the recent missions to Mars. Top-notch illustration program exploits the full range of the electromagnetic spectrum, including
Author:
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: bonnor, 65th, birthday, presented, essays, axisymmetric, systems, relativity, galaxies
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1985-11-27
List price: $80.00
ISBN-10: 0521308127
ISBN-13: 9780521308120
This book consists of essays reviewing progress or reporting original results in areas of the applications of gravity theory to which Professor Bonnor has contributed. In particular, the influence of his work in two important fields of current interest to astonomers, physicists and mathematicians, galaxy formation and the study of axisymmetric solutions in general relativity, is well recognised. The essays on galaxies and astrophysical cosmology are related to Professor Bonnor’s work on the treatment of perturbations of uniform cosmological models, while the essays on axisymmetric soluti
Author: Larry McCaffery
Publisher: University of Illinois Pre
Keywords: science, fiction, writers, american, contemporary, wounded, galaxies, interviews, across
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 1991-07-01
List price: $19.00
ISBN-10: 0252061403
ISBN-13: 9780252061400
