Research Catalog
Pathways to the universe
- Title
- Pathways to the universe / Francis Graham-Smith, Bernard Lovell.
- Author
- Graham-Smith, Francis, 1923-
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1988.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book/Text | Use in library | QB43.2 .G72 1988 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Lovell, Bernard, 1913-2012.
- Description
- 239 pages : illustrations (some color); 25 cm
- Summary
- Explains how to become an astronomer, looks at the types of telescopes being used to study the universe, and discusses the moon, planets, comets, the sun, supernovas, galaxies, and pulsars.
- Subject
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- How we became astronomers -- Finding your way about the stars -- Optical telescopes -- The electromagnetic spectrum -- The dynamics of the solar system -- The moon -- The earth -- The planets and their satellites -- Atmospheres and climates of the planets -- Comets -- Meteors, micrometeorites and meteorites -- The sun -- The birth, life and death of a star -- Binaries and clusters -- Variables and novae -- Supernovae and pulsars -- The Milky Way - our galaxy -- The galaxies -- Radio galaxies and quasars -- Cosmology -- The origin of life.
- ISBN
- 0521320046
- 9780521320047
- LCCN
- 86024517
- OCLC
- ocm14357537
- 14357537
- SCSB-8916904
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library