Astronomy

Journey to the Cosmic Frontier

John D. Fix (Autor)

Media-Kombination

720 Seiten

1998 | New edition
McGraw Hill Higher Education
978-0-07-561804-1 (ISBN)

Infos

This edition contains coverage of the Mars Pathfinder Mission, Hubble images and results, the Galileo Mission, and Hipparcos Mission. The CD-ROM includes chapter summaries, chapter opening questions, animations and simulations, and end-of-chapter conceptual questions and problems.

Inhalt

Journey's start; patterns in the sky; ancient astronomy; Renaissance astronomy; gravity and motion; light and telescopes; processes at work in the solar system; the Earth; the Moon; Mercury and Venus; Mars; Jupiter and Saturn; the outer planets; satellites; solar system debris; basic properties of stars; the Sun; the formation of stars and planets; the evolution of stars; white dwarfs, neutron stars and black holes; binary star systems; the Milky Way; galaxies; quasars and other active galaxies; galaxy cluster and the structure of the universe; cosmology; life in the universe.

Produkt-Details

• Zusatzinfo: illustrations (chiefly colour) facsimiles, colour maps, portraits
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Gewicht: 1910 g
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
• ISBN-10: 0-07-561804-4 / 0075618044
• ISBN-13: 978-0-07-561804-1 / 9780075618041
• Zustand: Neuware