Astronomy Today
Pearson (Verlag)
978-0-13-445027-8 (ISBN)
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For courses in Introductory Astronomy.
Connects introductory astronomy to a broad understanding of the universe
In this Ninth Edition of Astronomy Today, authors Eric Chaisson and Steve McMillan communicate their excitement about astronomy, combining up-to-date science with insightful pedagogy. The text emphasizes visualization, focusing on the process of scientific discovery in order to teach readers “how we know what we know.” Updated features in the 9th Edition, Big Pictures and Big Questions, help readers connect the content of each chapter with a broader understanding of the universe while piquing interest in current research. New features within Mastering ™ Astronomy bring these features together and allow readers to interact with astronomy outside of the classroom. The 9th Edition has also been thoroughly updated and revised to reflect recent discoveries in the field of astronomy.
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Eric Chaisson holds a Doctorate in Astrophysics from Harvard University, where he spent 10 years on the faculty of Arts and Sciences. For more than two decades thereafter, he served on the senior science staff at the Space Telescope Science Institute and held various professorships at Johns Hopkins and Tufts universities. He is now back at Harvard, where he teaches and conducts research at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Eric has written 12 books on astronomy and has published nearly 200 scientific papers in professional journals. Steve McMillan holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Mathematics from Cambridge University and a Doctorate in Astronomy from Harvard University. He held postdoctoral positions at the University of Illinois and Northwestern University, where he continued his research in theoretical astrophysics, star clusters, and high-performance computing. Steve is currently Distinguished Professor of Physics at Drexel University and a frequent visiting researcher at Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study and Leiden University. He has published more than 100 articles and scientific papers in professional journals. Emily L. Rice, College of Staten Island, City University of New York Emily holds bachelor’s degrees in physics and astronomy and German from the University of Pittsburgh and a master’s degree and doctorate in astronomy and astrophysics from UCLA. After completing her Ph.D. she held a postdoctoral position at the American Museum of Natural History, where she is still a resident research associate. Emily is currently Assistant Professor at the College of Staten Island and doctoral faculty in physics at the Graduate Center, both part of the City University of New York. In addition to her research on low-mass stars, brown dwarfs, and exoplanets as co-PI of the Brown Dwarfs in New York City (BDNYC) group, she is the co-author of Astronomy Labs: A Concept Oriented Approach and co-founder of the astronomy fashion blog STARtorialist.
Astronomy Today, 9th Edition Full Volume contains Chapters 1-28 and is also available in the following split volume versions:
Volume 1: The Solar System, 9th Edition contains Chapters 1-16, 28
Volume 2: Stars and Galaxies, 9th Edition contains Chapters 1-5 and 16-28
I. ASTRONOMY AND THE UNIVERSE
Charting the Heavens: The Foundations of Astronomy
The Copernican Revolution: The Birth of Modern Science
Radiation: Information from the Cosmos
Spectroscopy: The Inner Workings of Atoms
Telescopes: The Tools of Astronomy
II. OUR PLANETARY SYSTEM
The Solar System: An Introduction to Comparative Planetology
Earth: Our Home in Space
The Moon and Mercury: Scorched and Battered Worlds
Venus: Earth's Sister Planet
Mars: A Near Miss for Life?
Jupiter: Giant of the Solar System
Saturn: Spectacular Rings and Mysterious Moons
Uranus and Neptune: The Outer Worlds of the Solar System
Solar System Debris: Keys to Our Origin
The Formation of Planetary Systems: The Solar System and Beyond<
III. STARS AND STELLAR EVOLUTION
The Sun: Our Parent Star
The Stars: Giants, Dwarfs, and the Main Sequence
The Interstellar Medium: Gas and Dust among the Stars
Star Formation: A Traumatic Birth
Stellar Evolution: The Life and Death of a Star
Stellar Explosions: Novae, Supernovae, and the Formation of the Elements
Neutron Stars and Black Holes: Strange States of Matter
IV. GALAXIES AND COSMOLOGY
The Milky Way Galaxy: A Spiral in Space
Galaxies: Building Blocks of the Universe
Galaxies and Dark Matter: The Large-Scale Structure of the Cosmos
Cosmology: The Big Bang and the Fate of the Universe
The Early Universe: Toward the Beginning of Time
Life in the Universe: Are We Alone?
| Erscheinungsdatum | 19.03.2017 |
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 221 x 279 mm |
| Gewicht | 1710 g |
| Themenwelt | Schulbuch / Wörterbuch |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-13-445027-2 / 0134450272 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-13-445027-8 / 9780134450278 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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