Our Place In The Universe

Author:   Norman K Glendenning (Lawrence Berkeley Nat'l Lab, Usa)
Publisher:   World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
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9789812700698


Pages:   244
Publication Date:   21 March 2007
Format:   Paperback
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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.

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Author:   Norman K Glendenning (Lawrence Berkeley Nat'l Lab, Usa)
Publisher:   World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Imprint:   World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 18.00cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 25.10cm
Weight:   0.608kg
ISBN:  

9789812700698


ISBN 10:   9812700692
Pages:   244
Publication Date:   21 March 2007
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained
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Table of 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.

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"""It is such a humane and personal approach to presenting scientific results, that it is absolutely unique. If there were more books of this kind we would not have the divide between the sciences and the humanities."" Emeritus Professor Joerg Huefner Heidelberg University"


It is such a humane and personal approach to presenting scientific results, that it is absolutely unique. If there were more books of this kind we would not have the divide between the sciences and the humanities. Emeritus Professor Joerg Huefner Heidelberg University


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