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The Orion Nebula : where stars are born /
The glowing cloud in Orion's sword, the Orion Nebula is a thing of beauty in the night sky; it is also the closest center of massive star formation--a stellar nursery that reproduces the conditions in which our own Sun formed some 4.5 billion years ago. O'Dell has spent a lifetime studying...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2003.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Enter the hunter
- Views of our universe
- Henry Draper and the photographic revolution
- The toolbox of the astronomer
- Opaque skies on the clearest nights
- Why is a star a star?
- Bengt Stromgren's spheres
- The explorers set sail
- Where did all these stars come from?
- The Hubble Space Telescope
- What Orion really looks like
- What is happening to the Orion Nebula
- Are we alone?
- Outsmarting the fickle goddess of science.