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Picture This! Grasping the Dimensions of Time and Space /
Astronomical concepts can be truly hard to comprehend, especially those of planetary sizes and distances from Earth and from each other. These concepts are made more comprehensible by the group of illustrations in this book, which put, in scale, side by side extraterrestrial objects with objects on...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2016.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2016. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto Completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface: The Long and the Short of It
- Part One: Our Place in the Cosmos
- Chapter One: Asteroids, Comets, and Our Cosmic Landscape
- Chapter Two: Ice Dwarfs and Tiny Moons
- Chapter Three: The Weirdest Moons, Large and Small
- Chapter Four: A Tour of the Planets
- Chapter Five: Bright, Shining Stars
- Chapter Six: Nebulae, Galaxies, and the Edge of All Things
- Chapter Seven: Understanding Scale in the Universe
- Part Two: Our Place in Time
- Chapter Eight: The Worlds Around Us
- Chapter Nine: Space Travel
- Index.