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"Observing details are given for 160 active galaxies, all of which are within the reach of amateur astronomers using telescopes. There are tips on observing galaxies and active galaxies using binoculars and telescopes, along with a guide to imaging galaxies with CCD cameras." "Galaxies in Turmoil can be used as a text for college courses including galaxies, active galaxies, quasars, deep-space objects, and large-scale astronomy, up to the final year...
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Examines what is known about various galaxies and presents theories about their formation.
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"The de Vaucouleurs Atlas of Galaxies is a comprehensive illustration of the morphology of normal, nearby galaxies and how they are classified in the revised Hubble system developed in the 1950s by Gerard de Vaucouleurs. Using an image database of over 500 galaxies, the de Vaucouleurs classification is made more accessible and understandable so that astronomy researchers, students, and amateurs can apply the system with ease."--Jacket.
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"In this fresh list, Stephen James O'Meara presents 109 new objects for stargazers to observe. The Secret Deep list contains many exceptional objects, including a planetary nebula whose last thermal pulse produced a circumstellar shell similar to the one expected in the final days of our Sun's life; a piece of the only supernova remnant known visible to the unaided eye; the flattest galaxy known; the largest edge-on galaxy in the heavens; the brightest...
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Sun : "The Sun is a star - a nuclear reactor at the hub of the Solar System. Each second, the Sun loses four million tones of mass - energy that gives us heat, light and life. Yet the Sun, overall, is no denser than yogurt, a cauldron of incandescent gas spewing flares and prominences. Electrically-charged particles stream from the Sun - the solar wind. Twists in the magnetic field trigger gigantic ejections that turn the wind into a storm."--Container
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The formation of galaxies is one of the greatest puzzles in astronomy, the solution is shrouded in the depths of space and time, but has profound implications for the universe we observe today. This book discusses the beginnings of the process from cosmological observations and calculations. It examines the different theories of galaxy formation and shows where each theory either succeeds or fails in explaining what we actually observe. In addition,...
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In this Very Short Introduction, popular science writer John Gribbin tells the story of our growing understanding of galaxies, from the days before Galileo to our present-day observations of our many hundreds of millions of galactic neighbors. Their study has revealed much of what we know today about the cosmos, providing a window on the Big Bang and the origins of the Universe. He looks at our own "Milky Way" Galaxy in detail, from the different...
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Orienting us with an insider's tour of our cosmic home, the Milky Way, William Waller and Paul Hodge then take us on a spectacular journey, inviting us to probe the exquisite structures and motions of giant spiral and elliptical galaxies, to witness the transformative dramas of colliding and erupting galaxies, and to pay our respects to the most powerful galaxies of all the quasars.
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In these pages, the reader can follow the engaging saga of astronomical exploration in the southern hemisphere, in a modern merger of aesthetics, science, and a story of human endeavor. This book is truly a celebration of southern skies. -- Jerry Bonnell, Editor - Astronomy Picture of the Day.
The southern sky became accessible to scientific scrutiny only a few centuries ago, after the first European explorers ventured south of the equator. Modern...
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This all-purpose star atlas is devoted to observing the Herschel objects with binoculars and telescopes. It displays over 2500 of the most visually-attractive star clusters, nebulae and galaxies that were discovered by Sir William, Carolyn and Sir John Herschel. Covering the entire sky from the North to the South Celestial Pole, and showing all 88 constellations, it is also a general sky atlas showing variable, double and multiple stars, and the Milky...
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Three centuries of engineering have produced telescopes far beyond Galileo's simple spyglass. Perched on mountaintops, orbiting the Earth, and even circling other planets, these telescopes are revealing the solar system in detail Galileo could only dream of. Get up close with today's most powerful telescopes and embark on a stunning journey to the planets and moons now being imaged as never before.
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