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Item specifics
- Condition
- Features
- Dust Jacket
- ISBN
- 9781426209710
- Book Title
- Space Atlas : Mapping the Universe and Beyond
- Publisher
- National Geographic Society
- Item Length
- 12.2 in
- Publication Year
- 2012
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.1 in
- Genre
- Nature, Science
- Topic
- Sky Observation, Physics / Astrophysics, Cosmology, Astronomy
- Item Weight
- 16 Oz
- Item Width
- 9.4 in
- Number of Pages
- 336 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
National Geographic Society
ISBN-10
1426209711
ISBN-13
9781426209710
eBay Product ID (ePID)
117339020
Product Key Features
Book Title
Space Atlas : Mapping the Universe and Beyond
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Sky Observation, Physics / Astrophysics, Cosmology, Astronomy
Publication Year
2012
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Nature, Science
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
16 Oz
Item Length
12.2 in
Item Width
9.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"A joy to look at…For all those who ever dreamed of traveling to the stars, Space Atlas will surely keep those fantasies alive." Seattle Post-Intelligencer "An atlas of such beauty is rare indeed." Science Books & Film, "A gorgeous, fact-filled must for reference sections." - Library Journal starred review "A joy to look at...For all those who ever dreamed of traveling to the stars, Space Atlas will surely keep those fantasies alive." - Seattle Post-Intelligencer "An atlas of such beauty is rare indeed." -Science Books & Film, "A joy to look at…For all those who ever dreamed of traveling to the stars, Space Atlas will surely keep those fantasies alive." Seattle Post-Intelligencer "An atlas of such beauty is rare indeed." Science Books & Film "A gorgeous, fact-filled must for reference sections." Libary Journal, "A gorgeous, fact-filled must for reference sections." Library Journal starred review "A joy to look at…For all those who ever dreamed of traveling to the stars, Space Atlas will surely keep those fantasies alive." Seattle Post-Intelligencer "An atlas of such beauty is rare indeed." Science Books & Film
Dewey Decimal
520.22/3
Synopsis
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, we are able to benefit from the incredible technology of exploration developed by NASA and its counterparts in other countries.The second domain is made up of the billions of stars in our own Milky Way galaxy. We walk in the steps of the American astronomer Edwin Hubble, who first established that the universe is made up of discrete galaxies, then go on to examine the fundamental constituents of those galaxies--the stars. We see stars not as eternal lights in the sky, but as objects born out of a desperate struggle between pressure and gravity. We trace the life cycle of our own sun, from its birth 4.5 billion years ago to its quiet end 6 billion years in the future. We see the galaxy not as a serene and placid place, but as a giant factory, where primordial material is taken up into stars, then returned to the galaxy enriched with the heavy elements necessary for life.Finally, we move to the ultimate domain--the large scale structure of the universe itself in which galaxies are the building blocks. We discover the most amazing fact, that the solid stuff of stars and planets on which we have been concentrating up to this point make up only a few percent of the mass in the universe, with the rest being composed of two mysterious entities called, respectively, dark matter and dark energy. We descend into deep caverns to see scientists trying to detect dark matter as it sweeps by the Earth, and we talk to theorists trying to solve the riddle of dark energy. This quest brings us to the frontier of knowledge, the edge of the unknown.To conclude, two ultimate questions remain: How did the universe begin? How will the universe end? We trace our theories back to the first fraction of a second of the life of the universe and listen to the speculations of cosmologists about how it might all have started., 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, we are able to benefit from the incredible technology of exploration developed by NASA and its counterparts in other countries. The second domain is made up of the billions of stars in our own Milky Way galaxy. We walk in the steps of the American astronomer Edwin Hubble, who first established that the universe is made up of discrete galaxies, then go on to examine the fundamental constituents of those galaxies--the stars. We see stars not as eternal lights in the sky, but as objects born out of a desperate struggle between pressure and gravity. We trace the life cycle of our own sun, from its birth 4.5 billion years ago to its quiet end 6 billion years in the future. We see the galaxy not as a serene and placid place, but as a giant factory, where primordial material is taken up into stars, then returned to the galaxy enriched with the heavy elements necessary for life. Finally, we move to the ultimate domain--the large scale structure of the universe itself in which galaxies are the building blocks. We discover the most amazing fact, that the solid stuff of stars and planets on which we have been concentrating up to this point make up only a few percent of the mass in the universe, with the rest being composed of two mysterious entities called, respectively, dark matter and dark energy. We descend into deep caverns to see scientists trying to detect dark matter as it sweeps by the Earth, and we talk to theorists trying to solve the riddle of dark energy. This quest brings us to the frontier of knowledge, the edge of the unknown. To conclude, two ultimate questions remain: How did the universe begin? How will the universe end? We trace our theories back to the first fraction of a second of the life of the universe and listen to the speculations of cosmologists about how it might all have started., Space Atlas is a one-stop guide to the planets in the solar system and the outer reaches of the known universe, using the most up-to-date information and the latest imagery and mapping technology.
LC Classification Number
QB65.T74 2012
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