Realm of the universe /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
Saunders College Pub.,
[1988], ©1988
Philadelphia : c1988 Philadelphia : ©1988 |
| Edition: | 4th ed |
| Series: | Saunders golden sunburst series
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Table of Contents:
- Finding our place in the universe
- The celestial clockwork
- Gravitation
- Earth, moon, and sky
- Electromagnetic radiation
- Astronomical observations
- New spectral windows
- The realm of the planets
- Earth as a planet
- Cratered worlds: Moon and Mercury
- Earth-like planets: Mars and Venus
- The giant planets
- Rings, moon, and Pluto
- Comets and asteroids: debris of the solar system
- Meteorites and the history of the solar system
- The realm of the stars
- Celestial surveying: distances and motions of stars
- Starlight
- Properties of stars
- The sun: a garden-variety star
- Between the stars
- Life story of a star
- The special theory of relativity
- The general theory of relativity
- Stellar structure and energy
- The birth and evolution of stars
- The stellar graveyard
- The realm of the galaxies
- The Milky Way galaxy
- Galaxies
- Quasars and active galaxies
- The Big Bang
- Other planets, other life: are we alone?