Galaxies"A Sierra Club book." An accurately illustrated guidebook with theoretical space journeys through the universe. |
Contents
A Spiral Galaxy | 17 |
Stars and Interstellar Space | 24 |
The Death of Stars | 53 |
Copyright | |
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Andromeda Galaxy appear astronomers atoms barred spiral billions of stars black hole bright nebulae CALIFORNIA Centaurus central bulge central regions clusters of galaxies collapse cosmic cosmology cosmos CRUZ The University dark diameter disk distance dwarf galaxies earth ejected elliptical galaxies energy Eta Carina Nebula expansion exploding fifteen billion Flatlanders foreground galactic galaxy's gas and dust giant globular clusters globular star clusters glowing Hale Observatories Halton Arp hundred million intergalactic space interstellar clouds interstellar gas interstellar material Kitt Peak Kitt Peak National light cone light-years Lineland Local Supercluster lookback mass Milky Way Galaxy million light-years nearly nucleus objects observer orbit Peak National Observatory photograph plane planetary quasars radiation relative ring galaxy SANTA CRUZ satellites seen solar system spectrum spherical clusters spiral arms spiral galaxy starlight stars and interstellar stellar Supercluster supernova telescopes thousand light-years Trifid velocity violent galaxies visible X-ray young stars