Paul Abel

How to Read the Solar System: A Guide to the Stars and Planets

Buch

What exactly is the solar system? We've all learned the basics at school but do we really understand what we are seeing in the night sky? Expert astronomers Chris North and Paul Abel, provide a fascinating guided tour of our Solar System and explain its many wonders.They look at all the major players, including our more familiar cosmic neighbors-the Sun, the planets and their moons-as well as the occasional visitors to our planet-asteroids, meteors and comets-in addition to distant stars and what might lie beyond our Solar System, including the mysterious Earth Mark II? North and Abel recount the history of how our Solar System came to be, an… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: May, Brian / North, Chris (Solist)

ISBN: 978-1-60598-671-5
EAN: 9781605986715
Produktnummer: 16472560
Verlag: Pegasus Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Seitenangabe: 320 S.
Masse: H21.9 cm x B15.1 cm x D3.0 cm 394 g
Gewicht: 394

Über den Autor

Paul G. Abel is a British astronomer, mathematician, broadcaster and writer. Currently, he is based in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Science in the department of Physics & Astronomy at the University of Leicester where he teaches Mathematics. He is a presenter for the BBC's The Sky at Night program and has written for many popular astronomy magazines, focusing on how amateur astronomers can contribute to the field.