Discovering the Universe

by WilliamJ.Kaufmann (Author), NeilF.Comins (Editor), M . F . Comins (Editor)

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  Paperback
  1996

  $10.07

  This edition contains several different features including: a greater emphasis on stars and galaxies; treatment of the planets one at a time for greater clarity; completely rewritten chapter introductions; What Do You Think questions that open each chapter and address specific common student misconceptions; new key-term chapter-ending lists; improved pedagogy including Foundations part openers and Astronomer's Toolboxes ; and a new CD-ROM with full text and art plus new graphics, animations, historical timelines, interviews with prominent astronomers and skychart software.

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  Paperback
  1993

  $3.35

  The third edition has been updated to include the latest information on: the difficulties and successes of the Hubble Space Telescope; the status of AXAF, SIRTIF, Keck and other new observatories; the solar neutrino problem and the growing importance of solar seismology; the Magellan and Galileo missions, including remarkable photographs of Venus and Gaspra; the supernova SN1987A, with a new prediction of its brightening around the year 2000; the existence of black holes, including new observational evidence, plus descriptions of the supermassive-black hole model of the central engine in quasars and active galactic nuclei; galactic collisions and mergers, with new the radio maps and super computer simulations of galaxy-galaxy interactions.