Galaxies and the Cosmic Frontier (inbunden)
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Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
334
Utgivningsdatum
2003-07-01
Förlag
Harvard University Press
Medarbetare
Hodge, Paul W.
Illustratör/Fotograf
61halftones 88 illustrations
Illustrationer
32 color illustrations, 61 halftones, 56 line illustrations
Dimensioner
253 x 168 x 29 mm
Vikt
917 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780674010796

Galaxies and the Cosmic Frontier

av William H Waller, Paul W Hodge
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2003-07-01
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Orienting us with an insiders tour of our cosmic home, the Milky Way, William Waller and Paul Hodge then take us on a spectacular journey, inviting us to probe the exquisite structures and dynamics of the giant spiral and elliptical galaxies, to witness colliding and erupting galaxies, and to pay our respects to the most powerful galaxies of allthe quasars. A basic guide to the latest news from the cosmic frontierabout the black holes in the centers of galaxies, about the way in which some galaxies cannibalize each other, about the vast distances between galaxies, and about the remarkable new evidence regarding dark energy and the cosmic expansionthis book gives us a firm foundation for exploring the more speculative fringes of our current understanding. This is a heavily revised and completely updated version of Hodges Galaxies, which won an Association of American Publishers PROSE Award for Best Science Book of the Year in 1986.
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Waller, a professor of astronomy, teams with Hodge, editor-in-chief of Astronomical Journal, to present recent advances due largely to the advent of massive earthbound and spaceborne telescopes. In fact, these instruments now allow astronomers to detect galaxies so distant that we are seeing them shortly after their emergence from the din of the Big Bang, the authors write. * Science News * Some galaxies erupt in starbursts; most contain giant black holes at their cores, each containing several million or billion times as much mass as our sun. William Waller and Paul Hodge give us a magisterial tour of these galaxies and their environment in space. -- Jay Pasachoff * Times Higher Education Supplement *

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William H. Waller is Investigator and Liaison for Space Scientists at NASA's New England Space Science Initiative in Education. Paul W. Hodge is Professor of Astronomy, Emeritus, at the University of Washington and Editor-in-Chief of Astronomical Journal.

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