Astronomy
The Cosmic Journey
Published on 1. January 1991
Book
Hardback
698 pages
978-0-534-14946-8 (ISBN)
Description
This book should be of interest to students on introductory and general astronomy courses.
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Edition
New ed of 4 Revised ed
Language
English
Place of publication
Belmont, CA
United States
Publishing group
Cengage Learning, Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
illus
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Weight
1640 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-534-14946-8 (9780534149468)
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Content
Invitation to the cosmic journey. Part I: The early discoveries. Prehistoric astronomy: origins of science and superstition. Historic advances: worlds in the sky. Discovering the layout of the solar system. Part II: Two methods for exploring space: understanding gravity and understanding light. Gravity and the conquest of space. Light and the spectrum: Messages from space. Part III: Exploring the Earth-Moon system. Earth as a planet. The Moon. Part IV: The Solar System. Introducing the planets - Mercury. Venus. Mars. Jupiter and its moons. The outermost planets and their moons. Comets, meteors, asteroids and meteorites. The origin of the solar system. Part V: Stars and their evolution. The Sun: the nature of the nearest star. Measuring the basic properties of stars. The systematics of nearby stars: the H-R diagram. Stellar evolution I: birth and middle age. Stellar evolution II: death and transfiguration. Part VI: Environment and groupings of stars. Interstellar atoms, dust and nebulae. Companions to stars: binaries, multiples, and possible planetary systems. Star clusters and associations. Part VII: Galaxies. The Milky Way galaxy. The local galaxies. The expanding universe of distant galaxies. Part VIII: Frontiers. Cosmology: the universe's structure. Cosmogony: a twentieth-century version of creation. Life in the universe. Epilogue: the cosmic perspective. Essays. Appendices. Glossary. References. Index. Star maps.