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Amazon.com Books: galaxies
Planet Earth is in the Milky Way Galaxy, the cloudy band of light that stretches clear across the night sky. How many galaxies are there in the universe? For years astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the universe. Now we know that there are billions of them. Gail Gibbons takes the reader on a journey light-years away.Author: Gail Gibbons Paperback: 32 pages Company: Holiday House (2009-03) ISBN: 0823421929 List Price: $6.95 Amazon Price: $4.01 Used Price: $2.55 
What astronomers know about our universe changes every day. For the past twenty years, Universe has been the most thrilling way to communicate the excitement of discovery in astronomy, to students of all scientific backgrounds. This edition of Universe which contains the full text of chapters 1-8 and 18-30 gives students the means to explore the stars and galaxies like never before. In addition to covering all the top discoveries, the text and accompanying CD contains spectacular images, captivating writing, and guides students on a fascinating journey around the cosmos and back again.Author: Roger A. Freedman, William J. Kaufmann Paperback: 762 pages Student Edition Company: W H Freeman & Co (Sd) (2008-01-31) ISBN: 0716795612 List Price: $111.80 Amazon Price: $56.00 Used Price: $28.06 
Beyond the Milky Way and toward infinity, Timothy Ferris navigates an exploration of the universe, guided by stars and galaxies that have been photographed through telescopes at the greatest observatories in the world. The book celebrates the wonder and the power of the cosmos in these photographs, which take you through silvery star clusters and vast red, exploding nebulae toward blue quasars 15 billion light years away. Revealing not only the ingredients of our own galaxy, the Milky Way, Ferris' vivid text also visits local galaxies, such as the Magellanic Clouds, the Andromeda, and the Sculptor and Fornax dwarves. The author then proceeds to discuss the elliptical, spiral and even violent aspects of galaxies, concluding with an examination of cosmology, which adresses such subjects as the geometry of space and time.Author: Timothy Ferris Hardcover: 182 pages Company: Random House Value Publishing (1988-09-16) (1988-09-16) ISBN: 0517631768 List Price: $29.99 Amazon Price: $102.52 Used Price: $2.98 
This extensively illustrated book presents the astrophysics of galaxies since their beginnings in the early Universe. It has been thoroughly revised to take into account the most recent observational data, and recent discoveries such as dark energy. There are new sections on galaxy clusters, gamma ray bursts and supermassive black holes. The authors explore the basic properties of stars and the Milky Way before working out towards nearby galaxies and the distant Universe. They discuss the structures of galaxies and how galaxies have developed, and relate this to the evolution of the Universe. The book also examines ways of observing galaxies across the whole electromagnetic spectrum, and explores dark matter and its gravitational pull on matter and light. This book is self-contained and includes several homework problems with hints. It is ideal for advanced undergraduate students in astronomy and astrophysics.Author: Linda S. Sparke, John S. Gallagher III Paperback: 442 pages Company: Cambridge University Press (2007-02-05) ISBN: 0521671868 List Price: $80.00 Amazon Price: $47.09 Used Price: $42.00 
Like no other telescope ever invented, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has given us magnificent high resolution views of the gigantic cosmic collisions between galaxies. Hubble's images are snapshots in time and catch the colliding galaxies in different stages of collision. Thanks to a new and amazing set of 60 Hubble images, for the first time these different stages can be put together to form a still-frame movielike montage showing the incredible processes taking place as galaxies collide and merge. The significance of these cosmic encounters reaches far beyond aesthetics. Galaxy mergers may, in fact, be some of the most important processes that shape our universe. Colliding galaxies very likely, hold some of the most important clues to our cosmic past and to our destiny. It now seems clear that the Milky Way is continuously undergoing merging events, some small scale, others on a gigantic scale. And the importance of this process in the lives of galaxies is much greater than what was previously thought.Author: Lars Lindberg Christensen, Davide de Martin, Raquel Yumi Shida Hardcover: 144 pages Company: Springer (2009-09-09) ISBN: 0387938532 List Price: $39.95 Amazon Price: $5.93 Used Price: $5.93 
The same archeological team who uncovered a secret underground bunker on Dakistee sixteen years earlier, when the planet was still named Mawcett, has discovered a new facility. They struggle for months to open the entrance, but the structure defies all their efforts. Finally admitting defeat, they send a message to Admiral Jenetta Carver, beseeching her to come help once again.In Region Two, Admiral Jenetta Carver is besieged with mundane work. Although she would love to drop everything and head for Dakistee, she can't possibly get away. But she also can't ignore the possibilities of what treasures, or dangers, the facility might represent. Fortunately, the battleship Hephaestus is in port, and the ship's third watch commander is available for a special assignment. Christa is far from thrilled with the prospect of giving up her seat on the bridge, even temporarily, but when an admiral says go, you go. It doesn't matter that the admiral is your sister. Christa expects to make a quick trip, with a speedy return to the Hephaestus, but as with Jenetta, assignments often tend to take unexpected side trips into unique and dangerous situations. 91k Words, 306 Print Pages Author: Thomas DePrima Kindle Edition: Kindle eBook Company: Vinnia Publishing (2011-12-13) (2011-12-13) List Price: Amazon Price: 
The rapidly expanding field of galaxy formation lies at the interface between astronomy, particle physics, and cosmology. Covering diverse topics from these disciplines, all of which are needed to understand how galaxies form and evolve, this book is ideal for researchers entering the field. Individual chapters explore the evolution of the Universe as a whole and its particle and radiation content; linear and nonlinear growth of cosmic structure; processes affecting the gaseous and dark matter components of galaxies and their stellar populations; the formation of spiral and elliptical galaxies; central supermassive black holes and the activity associated with them; galaxy interactions; and the intergalactic medium. Emphasizing both observational and theoretical aspects, this book provides a coherent introduction for astronomers, cosmologists, and astroparticle physicists to the broad range of science underlying the formation and evolution of galaxies.Author: Houjun Mo, Frank van den Bosch, Simon White Hardcover: 840 pages Company: Cambridge University Press (2010-06-28) ISBN: 0521857937 List Price: $95.00 Amazon Price: $77.05 Used Price: $65.98 
With this newly revised Eighth Edition of STARS AND GALAXIES, the authors' goals are to help you use astronomy to understand science--and use science to understand what we are. Fascinating, engaging, and visually vibrant, this text will help you answer two fundamental questions: What are we? And how do we know?Author: Michael A. Seeds, Dana Backman Paperback: 466 pages Company: Brooks Cole (2012-01-01) ISBN: 1111990662 List Price: $137.95 Amazon Price: $76.65 Used Price: $74.44 
This close-up look at our own Milky Way and other enormous clusters of stars describes the many different types of galaxies, how they were formed, and how they got their different shapes. "A dazzling photo-essay."--School Library Journal.Author: Seymour Simon Paperback: 32 pages Company: HarperCollins (1991-09-18) (1991-09-18) ISBN: 0688109926 List Price: $7.99 Amazon Price: $3.48 Used Price: $0.01 
In this fascinating Very Short Introduction, popular science writer John Gribben tells the story of our growing understanding of galaxies, from the days before Galileo to our present-day observations of our many hundreds of millions of galactic neighbors. Not only are galaxies fascinating astronomical structures in themselves, but their study has revealed much of what we know today about the cosmos, providing a window on the Big Bang and the origins of the Universe. Gribben looks at our own "Milky Way" Galaxy in detail, from the different kinds of stars that are born within it, to the origins of its magnificent spiral structure. Perhaps most interesting, Gribben describes the many exciting discoveries have been made about our own galaxy and about those beyond: how a supermassive black hole lurks at the center of every galaxy, how enormous forces are released when galaxies collide, how distant galaxies provide a window on the early Universe, and how the formation of young galaxies shed needed light on the mysteries of Cold Dark Matter.Author: John Gribbin Paperback: 144 pages Company: Oxford University Press, USA (2008-06-02) ISBN: 0199234345 List Price: $11.95 Amazon Price: $4.50 Used Price: $4.07 |
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