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The Milky Way : an insider's guide / William H. Waller.

By: Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: xi, 316 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780691122243
  • 0691122245
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 523.113 23
LOC classification:
  • QB857.7 .W34 2013
Contents:
First impressions -- Historic perceptions -- Panchromatic vistas -- Neighbors of the Sun -- Beacons from afar -- Star birth -- Lives of the stars -- Stellar afterlives -- The galactic garden -- Monster in the core -- Tales of origin -- Life in the Milky Way.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-316) and index.

First impressions -- Historic perceptions -- Panchromatic vistas -- Neighbors of the Sun -- Beacons from afar -- Star birth -- Lives of the stars -- Stellar afterlives -- The galactic garden -- Monster in the core -- Tales of origin -- Life in the Milky Way.

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