
The Cosmos
Astronomy in the New Millennium
Brooks/Cole (Publisher)
2nd Edition
Published on 28. April 2003
Book
Mixed media product
432 pages
978-0-534-39549-0 (ISBN)
Description
Jay Pasachoff and Alex Filippenko combine extensive research experience (including years of research in such areas as radio astronomy, solar eclipses, supernovae, active galaxies, black holes and cosmology), teaching experience, and textbook-writing experience to offer a book that presents contemporary science in a way that students can understand. This brief and illustrated text, offers concise coverage of a wide range of astronomical topics. An early discussion of the scientific method stresses its importance in the verification of observations. The authors emphasize the study of origins in this text, first by singling out specifics in the headings of each chapter and then by dealing with a variety of relevant material in the text itself. This edition includes a chapter on the dozens of exoplanets that are being discovered around other stars.
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Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
CA
United States
Publishing group
Cengage Learning, Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 276 mm
Width: 216 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-534-39549-0 (9780534395490)
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Other editions
Previous edition
Book
10/2000
Holt McDougal
€155.21
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Content
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; gravity 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 stars shine - cosmic furnaces; the death of stars - stellar 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.