The most interesting galaxies in the universe /

Prior to the 1920s it was generally thought, with a few exceptions, that our galaxy, the Milky Way, was the entire Universe. Based on the work of Henrietta Leavitt with Cepheid variables, astronomer Edwin Hubble was able to determine that the Andromeda Galaxy and others had to lie outside our own. M...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schiff, Joel L. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: San Rafael [California] (40 Oak Drive, San Rafael, CA, 94903, USA) : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, [2018]
Colección:IOP (Series). Release 5.
IOP concise physics.
Temas:
Galaxies.
Universe.
Physics.
SCIENCE / Physics / General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • part I. Introduction. 1. Historical background
  • 2. Brief history of the Universe
  • 3. Let there be light
  • 3.1. Light magnitude
  • 4. Stars
  • 4.1. Clusters
  • 4.2. Stellar evolution
  • 5. Galaxy formation
  • 5.1. Galaxy classes
  • 5.2. Galaxy clusters
  • 5.3. Black holes
  • 5.4. Quasars
  • 6. Measuring the Universe
  • 6.1. Parallax distance
  • 6.2. Cepheids
  • 6.3. Type IA supernovae
  • 6.4. Tip of the red giant branch
  • 6.5. Hubble and his Constant
  • 6.6. Dark matter and dark energy
  • part II. Galaxies. 7. Galaxies.

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