The cosmos. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: By Chris De Pree.
• Other Names: De Pree, Christopher Gordon
• Contents: Pt. 1. The sun, Earth, and moon -- The structure of the night sky -- The sun's motion : telling time -- The sun's motion : the seasons -- Lunar motion and phases -- Lunar and solar eclipses -- The solar interior -- Fusion in the sun -- Sunspots and the solar surface -- The sun's upper atmosphere and the solar wind -- Earth's interior -- Earth's surface : oceans -- Earth's surface : plate tectonics -- Earth's magnetic field -- Earth's atmosphere -- The formation and structure of the moon -- The lunar surface -- Visiting the moon -- pt. 2. Other planets and moons in the solar system -- The formation of the solar system -- Layout of the solar system -- Soccer-ball-sized-sun solar system -- Planetary motion -- Mercury -- Venus -- Mars -- Jupiter -- Saturn -- Uranus -- Neptune -- Other moons in the solar system -- Dwarf planets -- Asteroids -- Comets -- Asteroid and comet impacts -- pt. 3. The births, lives, and deaths of stars -- Stars and spectroscopy -- The brightness and color of stars -- Stellar lifetime snapshot -- Star birth : the Orion Nebula -- Star death : the Crab Nebula -- The birth of low-mass stars -- The evolution of low-mass stars -- The death of low-mass stars -- The birth of high-mass stars -- How radio telescopes "unveil" star formation -- The evolution of high-mass stars -- The death of high-mass stars -- Supernova 1978A -- Neutron stars and supernova remnants -- Pulsars -- Magnetars -- Neutrinos -- Stellar mass black holes -- Binary stars -- pt. 4. The Milky Way galaxy -- The Milky Way in the night sky -- The structure of the Milky Way -- The galactic center -- The Milky Way at different wavelengths -- How infrared telescopes unveil the Milky Way -- The interstellar medium -- Galaxy detail : molecular clouds -- Galaxy detail : supernova remnants -- Galaxy detail : globular clusters -- Galaxy detail : spiral arms -- Galaxy detail : Hll regions -- Magnetic fields in the Milky Way -- The large and small magellanic clouds -- Rotation of the Milky Way -- What is dark matter? -- Distances in the Milky Way -- Searching for life in the Milky Way -- Exoplanets : discoveries -- Exoplanets : Kepler and future missions -- pt. 5. Galaxies -- The Andromeda Galaxy in the night sky k-- The local group -- Spiral galaxies -- Elliptical galaxies -- Irregular galaxies -- How distant are galaxies? -- Galaxy clusters -- The Hubble Law -- Galaxy collisions -- Gravitational lensing -- Dark matter in galaxies -- Galaxy evolution : how galaxies change -- What are quasars? -- Radio galaxies -- Active galaxies and active galactic nuclei -- Supermassive black holes in other galaxies -- The environments of black holes -- The Hubble deep field images -- Galaxy superclusters -- Very-large-scale structures -- pt. 6. The origin and fate of the universe -- Ancient views of the origin and fate of the universe -- A steady state universe and Einstein -- Spacetime -- Expansion of the universe -- The Hubble Constant and the age of the universe -- The cosmic microwave background : the afterglow of the Big Bang -- Mapping the cosmic microwave background -- Early universe timeline -- Fundamental particles -- Fundamental forces -- The very early universe and inflation -- Formation of matter and antimatter -- Big Bang nucleosynthesis -- Recombination -- Matter and energy -- The first stars and the dark ages -- The first galaxies and large-scale structure -- The geometry of the universe -- Critical density of the universe -- The runaway universe -- The anthropic principle -- Unsolved questions in the cosmos.
• Publisher Details: London : Alpha
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (288 pages)
• Subjects: 523.1; Astronomy -- Popular works; Cosmology -- Popular works; Astronomy; Cosmology; Solar system; Solar system; Popular works
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781615646043; 1615646043
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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