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ISBN 10: 1615300244
ISBN 13: 9781615300242
Author: Britannica Educational Publishing
The Sun is merely one of some 200 billion stars that make up the Milky Way--and the Milky Way is only one of a billion galaxies in the known universe. Packed with fascinating facts and stunning photography, this book examines the Galaxy humans call home and travels light years away, to the domain of phenomena such as the Oort cloud.
CHAPTER 1: THE MILKY WAY GALAXY
THE STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS OF THE MILKY WAY GALAXY
STRUCTURE OF THE SPIRAL SYSTEM
MAGNETIC FIELD
ROTATION
MASS
STAR POPULATIONS AND MOVEMENT
STARS AND STELLAR POPULATIONS
DENSITY DISTRIBUTION
STELLAR MOTIONS
SOLAR MOTION
CHAPTER 2: STARS
THE NATURE OF STARS
SIZE AND ACTIVITY
DISTANCES TO THE STARS
STELLAR POSITIONS
LIGHT FROM THE STARS
STELLAR MAGNITUDES
STELLAR SPECTRA
SPECTRAL ANALYSIS
BULK STELLAR PROPERTIES
STELLAR STATISTICS
VARIABLE STARS
STELLAR ATMOSPHERES
STELLAR INTERIORS
CHAPTER 3: STAR FORMATION AND EVOLUTION
BIRTH OF STARS AND EVOLUTION TO THE MAIN SEQUENCE
SUBSEQUENT DEVELOPMENT ON THE MAIN SEQUENCE
LATER STAGES OF EVOLUTION
EVOLUTION OF LOW-MASS STARS
ORIGIN OF THE CHEMICAL ELEMENTS
EVOLUTION OF HIGH-MASS STARS
END STATES OF STARS
WHITE DWARFS
NEUTRON STARS
BLACK HOLES
CHAPTER 4: STAR CLUSTERS
OPEN CLUSTERS
GLOBULAR CLUSTERS
OB AND T ASSOCIATIONS
DYNAMICS OF STAR CLUSTERS
CLUSTERS IN EXTERNAL GALAXIES
NOTABLE STARS AND STAR CLUSTERS
51 PEGASI
ALPHA CENTAURI
ARCTURUS
BETELGEUSE
DENEB
FOMALHAUT
PLEIADES
POLARIS
SIRIUS
VEGA
CHAPTER 5: NEBULAE
CLASSES OF NEBULAE
EARLY OBSERVATIONS OF NEBULAE
THE WORK OF THE HERSCHELS
ADVANCES BROUGHT BY PHOTOGRAPHY AND SPECTROSCOPY
20TH-CENTURY DISCOVERIES
CHEMICAL COMPOSITION AND PHYSICAL PROCESSES
INTERSTELLAR DUST
TURBULENCE
GALACTIC MAGNETIC FIELD
MOLECULAR CLOUDS
HYDROGEN CLOUDS
REFLECTION NEBULAE
H II REGION
PLANETARY NEBULAE
SUPERNOVA REMNANTS
DIFFUSE IONIZED GAS
NOTABLE NEBULAE
CASSIOPEIA A
COALSACK
GREAT RIFT
GUM NEBULA
HORSEHEAD NEBULA
LAGOON NEBULA
NORTH AMERICAN NEBULA
ORION NEBULA
R MONOCEROTIS
RING NEBULA
TRIFID NEBULA
CHAPTER 6: GALAXIES
THE EVOLUTION OF GALAXIES
HISTORICAL SURVEY OF THE STUDY OF GALAXIES
THE PROBLEM OF THE MAGELLANIC CLOUDS
NOVAE IN THE ANDROMEDA NEBULA
THE SCALE OF THE MILKY WAY GALAXY
THE VAN MAANEN ROTATION
THE SHAPLEY-CURTIS DEBATE
HUBBLE’S DISCOVERY OF EXTRAGALACTIC OBJECTS
THE DISTANCE TO THE ANDROMEDA NEBULA
THE GOLDEN AGE OF EXTRAGALACTIC ASTRONOMY
TYPES OF GALAXIES
PRINCIPAL SCHEMES OF CLASSIFICATION
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the biological universe life in the milky way and beyond
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the milky way and andromeda galaxy
