Bøger i Harvard Books on Astronomy serien

No detailed description available for "Tools of the Astronomer".

Galaxies are among nature's most aweinspiring and beautifully formed objects. In this highly informative and lucidly written book, Paul Hodge seeks to demystify galaxies and to examine closely our present-day knowledge of these magnificent star systems.

No detailed description available for "Between the Planets".

No detailed description available for "Our Sun".

No detailed description available for "Galaxies".

No detailed description available for "Stars and Clusters".

No detailed description available for "Stars in the Making".

No detailed description available for "The Sun, Our Star".

In a dazzling combination of text and illustrations, "Orbiting the Sun" offers vistas that rival science fiction. Every step of the way, Fred Whipple provides the basic foundation in astronomy that enables the reader to be not merely awed and entranced but thoroughly informed, with a solid and satisfying understanding of the workings of our solar system.

Beyond the range of optical perception-and of ordinary imaginings--a new and violent universe lay undetected until the advent of space exploration. Supernovae, black holes, quasars and pulsars--these were the secrets of the highenergy world revealed when, for the first time, astronomers attached their instruments to rockets and lofted them beyond the earth's x-ray-absorbing atmosphere. "The X-Ray Universe" is the story of these explorations and the fantastic new science they brought into being.

No detailed description available for "Moving Envelopes of Stars".