Space atlas: mapping the universe and beyond
| Main Author: | Trefil, James |
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| Format: | Book |
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National Geographic
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Daftar Isi:
- The tour starts close to home within the first domain, our own solar system. There is a tremendous variety here, from the sun scorched rocks of Mercury to the icy vastness of the Kuiper Belt beyond Pluto. The second domain is made up of the billions of stars in our own Milky Way galaxy. We walk in the steps of the American astronomer Edwin Hubble, who first established that the universe is made up of discrete galaxies, then go on to examine the fundamental constituents of those galaxies--the stars. Finally, we move to the ultimate domain--the large scale structure of the universe itself in which galaxies are the building blocks.