Far as Human Eye Could SeeEnter the wondrous world of Isaac Asimov, where the sky is not the limit--only the beginning! In this, his 23rd collection of essays, Asimov transports the reader from the earth's core to the farthest reaches of outer space. A captivating, scientific smorgasbord. HC: Doubleday. |
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... black holes , which could each have a mass equal to that of a star , even to that of a giant star , and , indeed , even to that of a cluster of stars . Despite their potentially huge masses , black holes in isolation in space would be ...
... black holes , which could each have a mass equal to that of a star , even to that of a giant star , and , indeed , even to that of a cluster of stars . Despite their potentially huge masses , black holes in isolation in space would be ...
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... black hole should be more like 100 billion suns in mass , or half the mass of the Galaxy , while isolated black holes make up the other half . Our galaxy does not , however , exist in isolation . It is part of a cluster of some two ...
... black hole should be more like 100 billion suns in mass , or half the mass of the Galaxy , while isolated black holes make up the other half . Our galaxy does not , however , exist in isolation . It is part of a cluster of some two ...
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... black holes that will have escaped from the clusters and will be wandering about through intercluster space are not likely to encounter major black holes in the ever expanding space through which they move . We might come to the ...
... black holes that will have escaped from the clusters and will be wandering about through intercluster space are not likely to encounter major black holes in the ever expanding space through which they move . We might come to the ...
Contents
Introduction | 9 |
Made Not Found | 15 |
Salt and Battery 26 | 26 |
Copyright | |
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