The Milky Way : an insider's guide /
This book offers an intimate guide to the Milky Way, taking readers on a grand tour of our home Galaxy's structure, genesis, and evolution, based on the latest astronomical findings. In engaging language, it tells how the Milky Way congealed from blobs of gas and dark matter into a spinning sta...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
©2013.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- First impressions
- Historic perceptions
- Panchromatic vistas
- Neighbors of the Sun
- Beacons from afar
- Star birth
- Lives of the stars
- Stellar afterlives
- The galactic garden
- Monster in the core
- Tales of origin
- Life in the Milky Way.