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9781558219663

Scientific American Book of Astronomy : The Best Writing on Black Holes, Gamma-Ray Bursters, Galactic Explosions, Extraterrestrial Life and Much More

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  • ISBN13:

    9781558219663

  • ISBN10:

    1558219668

  • Format: Trade Book
  • Copyright: 1999-10-01
  • Publisher: Lyons Press
  • Purchase Benefits
List Price: $35.00

Summary

Space has and confounded human beings since our earliest ancestors captivated first gazed upward toward the starry heavens. From the seventeenth century, when Galileo viewed the moon through his newly invented telescope, to the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope just a few years ago, mankind has pursued the quest to unlock the mysteries of the universe. Indeed, the quest itself seems infinite, as is made abundantly clear by the breadth of scientific theory and research contained within these pages.

Now, for the first time in book form, "The Scientific American Book of Astronomy" compiles over thirty articles culled from the magazine, written by some of the biggest names presently working in the field. Included here is Leonard Susskind on "Black Holes and the Information Paradox, " Kenneth R. Lang on newly discovered "Secrets of the Sun, " and David H. Levy and Eugene Shoemaker on the heart-stopping 1995 collision between Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 and Jupiter. Read about the newest theory of the self-reproducing universe. Learn how a meteorite found in Antarcti

Author Biography

Timothy Ferris is emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley

Table of Contents

Introduction ix
Timothy Ferris
I Rays, Waves, and Particles 1(30)
Gamma-Ray Bursters
3(10)
Bradley E. Schaefer
Cosmic Rays at the Energy Frontier
13(8)
James W. Cronin
Thomas K. Gaisser
Simon P. Swordy
Gamma-Ray Bursts
21(10)
Gerald J. Fishman
Dieter H. Hartmann
II Comets, Asteroids, and Meteorites 31(42)
Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Meets Jupiter
33(10)
David H. Levy
Eugene M. Shoemaker
Carolyn S. Shoemaker
Collisions with Comets and Asteroids
43(10)
Tom Gehrels
The Kuiper Belt
53(10)
Jane X. Luu
David C. Jewitt
The Oort Cloud
63(10)
Paul R. Weissman
III Planets 73(56)
The Pioneer Mission to Venus
75(12)
Janet G. Luhmann
James B. Pollack
Lawrence Colin
The Case for Relic Life on Mars
87(12)
Everett K. Gibson, Jr.
David S. McKay
Kathie Thomas-Keprta
Christopher S. Romanek
Global Climatic Change on Mars
99(10)
Jeffrey S. Kargel
Robert G. Strom
Searching for Life in Our Solar System
109(8)
Bruce M. Jakosky
Worlds around Other Stars
117(12)
David C. Black
IV Stars 129(48)
Collapse and Formation of Stars
131(10)
Alan P. Boss
Binary Neutron Stars
141(12)
Tsvi Piran
SOHO Reveals the Secrets of the Sun
153(10)
Kenneth R. Lang
Accretion Disks in Interacting Binary Stars
163(14)
John K. Cannizzo
Ronald H. Kaitchuck
V Galaxies 177(62)
How the Milky Way Formed
179(12)
Sidney van den Bergh
James E. Hesser
The Evolution of Galaxy Clusters
191(8)
J. Patrick Henry
Ulrich G. Briel
Hans Bohringer
Colossal Galactic Explosions
199(8)
Sylvain Veilleux
Gerald Cecil
Jonathan Bland-Hawthorn
Dark Matter in Spiral Galaxies
207(14)
Vera Rubin
A New Look at Quasars
221(8)
Michael Disney
Galaxies in the Young Universe
229(10)
F. Duccio Macchetto
Mark Dickinson
VI The Universe 239(80)
The Evolution of the Universe
241(10)
P. James E. Peebles
David N. Schramm
Edwin L. Turner
Richard G. Kron
Primordial Deuterium and the Big Bang
251(8)
Craig J. Hogan
Dark Matter in the Universe
259(8)
Vera Rubin
The Inflationary Universe
267(18)
Alan H. Guth
Paul J. Steinhardt
The Self-Reproducing Inflationary Universe
285(12)
Andrei Linde
Black Holes and the Information Paradox
297(12)
Leonard Susskind
The Expansion Rate and Size of the Universe
309(10)
Wendy L. Freedman
VII Technology 319(34)
Early Results from the Hubble Space Telescope
321(12)
Eric J. Chaisson
The International Space Station
333(8)
Tim Beardsley
Six Months on Mir
341(12)
Shannon W. Lucid
About the Authors 353(10)
Index 363

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