Stars and Galaxies （9TH）

Seeds, Michael A./ Backman, Dana E.

Brooks/Cole Pub Co（2015/01発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 442 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781305120785
• DDC分類 520

Full Description

With this newly revised Ninth 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?

Contents

PART I1. Here and Now.2. A User's Guide to the Sky.3. Moon Phases and Eclipses.4. Origins of Modern Astronomy.5. Gravity.6. Light and Telescopes.PART II: THE STARS.7. Atoms and Spectra.8. The Sun.9. The Family of Stars.10. The Interstellar Medium.11. Formation and Structure of Stars.12. Stellar Evolution.13. Deaths of Stars.14. Neutron Stars and Black Holes.PART III: GALAXIES AND THE UNIVERSE.15. The Milky Way Galaxy.16. Galaxies.17. Supermassive Black Holes and Active Galaxies.18. Modern Cosmology.PART IV: LIFE.19. Astrobiology.Afterword.Appendix A: Scientific Units and Astronomical Data.Appendix B: Star Charts.Glossary.