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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.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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. Moreover, based on the work of Vesto Slipher, involving the redshifts of these galaxies, Hubble was able to determine that the Universe was not static, as had been previously thought, but expanding.
Notas:"Version: 20180901"--Title page verso.
"A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations (some color).
Also available in print.
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9781643270043
9781643270029
ISSN:2053-2571