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The Andromeda Galaxy and the Rise of Modern Astronomy
The Andromeda Galaxy - Messier's M31 - has an almost romantic appeal. It is the most distant object and the only extragalactic object that is visible to the unaided human eye. It is also almost a twin of the Milky Way Galaxy and our neighbor in space, now known to be about 2.5 million light-yea...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Springer New York : Imprint: Springer,
2012.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2012. |
| Colección: | Astronomers' Universe,
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto Completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Chapter 1: The Wonder of Andromeda Galaxy
- Chapter 2: Early Depictions of Andromeda
- Chapter 3: A Single Closed Theory of the Universe
- Chapter 4: Andromeda and the Technological Revolution in Astronomy
- Chapter 5: Andromeda and Astronomy at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
- Chapter 6: The Andromeda Nebula and the Great Island-Universe Debate
- Chapter 7: Edwin Hubble, an Infinite Universe, and the Classification of Galaxies
- Chapter 8: Andromeda, Galactic Redshift, and the Big Bang Theory
- Chapter 9: Andromeda, Cosmology, and Post-World War II Astronomy
- Chapter 10: Astronomy and Andromeda at the Close of the Twentieth Century
- Chapter 11: The Andromeda Galaxy
- References
- Andromeda Statistics
- Index.