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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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Book/TextUse in library QB43.2 .G72 1988Off-site

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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
  • Astronomy
  • Astronomy
  • astronomy
  • Astronomie
  • Sterrenkunde
  • Astronomie
  • astronomie > manuel
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