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James Trefil

Space Atlas: Mapping the Universe and Beyond

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Filled with lavish illustrations, this book is a grand tour of the universe. Three ever widening domains are presented--the planets, the stars, and the large scale universe itself--each including the ones before it and extending outward.The tour starts close to home within the first domain, our own solar system. There is a tremendous variety here, from the sun scorched rocks of Mercury to the icy vastness of the Kuiper Belt beyond Pluto. We see the sun and planets born from the collapse of an interstellar dust cloud whose atoms were themselves created in long dead stars. Since many of these planets have been visited by space probes or landers… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Aldrin, Buzz (Solist)
  • ISBN: 978-1-4262-0971-0
  • EAN: 9781426209710
  • Produktnummer: 19356972
  • Verlag: Natl Geographic Soc
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
  • Seitenangabe: 335 S.
  • Masse: H31.0 cm x B24.0 cm x D3.0 cm 1'785 g
  • Gewicht: 1785

Über den Autor


JAMES TREFIL is a physicist and author of more than 30 books, including The Laws of Nature and Other Worlds: The Solar System and Beyond. He is co-author of an influential textbook, Science Matters: Achieving Scientific Literacy, and was a contributor to National Geographic's Encyclopedia of Space. A former physics professor at University of Virginia, he now teaches physics at George Mason University, and regularly gives presentations to judges and public officials on the intersection of science and law. The author lives in Washington, D.C..

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