Our Place in the Universe

Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Science, Physics, Astrophysics & Space Science, General Physics
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Author: Norman K Glendenning ISBN: 9789814338226
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company Publication: March 21, 2007
Imprint: WSPC/ICP Language: English
Author: Norman K Glendenning
ISBN: 9789814338226
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Publication: March 21, 2007
Imprint: WSPC/ICP
Language: English

Our Place in the Universe tells the story of our world, formation of the first galaxies and stars formed from great clouds containing the primordial elements made in the first few minutes; birth of stars, their lives and deaths in fiery supernova explosions; formation of the solar system, its planets and many moons; life on Earth, its needs and vicissitudes on land and in the seas; finally exoplanets, planets that surround distant stars. Interspersed in the text are short pieces on some of those who revealed these wonders to us.

It is written in a very authoritative and readable form and contains more than 100 color prints of the marvelous galaxies, and nebula that have been taken from space-based and land-based telescopes carried by NASA missions, the European Space Agency, the European Southern Laboratory in Chile and many other sources.

Contents:

  • A Day without Yesterday
  • Formation of Galaxies
  • Birth and Life of Stars
  • Supernovae: Death and Transfiguration of Stars
  • Nebulae
  • Spacetime, Relativity and Superdense Matter
  • Origins
  • First Modern Astronomer
  • Life on Earth
  • Other Planets and Their Moons
  • New Worlds

Readership: General.

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Our Place in the Universe tells the story of our world, formation of the first galaxies and stars formed from great clouds containing the primordial elements made in the first few minutes; birth of stars, their lives and deaths in fiery supernova explosions; formation of the solar system, its planets and many moons; life on Earth, its needs and vicissitudes on land and in the seas; finally exoplanets, planets that surround distant stars. Interspersed in the text are short pieces on some of those who revealed these wonders to us.

It is written in a very authoritative and readable form and contains more than 100 color prints of the marvelous galaxies, and nebula that have been taken from space-based and land-based telescopes carried by NASA missions, the European Space Agency, the European Southern Laboratory in Chile and many other sources.

Contents:

Readership: General.

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