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The Scientific American book of astronomy : black holes, gamma-ray bursters, galactic explosions, extraterrestrial life, and much more

Book of astronomy (portion title)
Scientific American, inc. (Added Author).

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  • ISBN: 1558219668
  • Physical Description: print
    372 pages
  • Publisher: New York : Lyons Press, 1999.

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General Note:
Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note: I Rays, Waves, and Particles 1 -- Gamma-Ray Bursters / Bradley E. Schaefer 3 -- Cosmic Rays at the Energy Frontier / James W. Cronin, Thomas K. Gaisser, Simon P. Swordy 13 -- Gamma-Ray Bursts / Gerald J. Fishman, Dieter H. Hartmann 21 -- II Comets, Asteroids, and Meteorites 31 -- Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Meets Jupiter / David H. Levy, Eugene M. Shoemaker, Carolyn S. Shoemaker 33 -- Collisions with Comets and Asteroids / Tom Gehrels 43 -- Kuiper Belt / Jane X. Luu, David C. Jewitt 53 -- Oort Cloud / Paul R. Weissman 63 -- III Planets 73 -- Pioneer Mission to Venus / Janet G. Luhmann, James B. Pollack, Lawrence Colin 75 -- Case for Relic Life on Mars / Everett K. Gibson Jr., David S. McKay, Kathie Thomas-Keprta, Christopher S. Romanek 87 -- Global Climatic Change on Mars / Jeffrey S. Kargel, Robert G. Strom 99 -- Searching for Life in Our Solar System / Bruce M. Jakosky 109 -- Worlds around Other Stars / David C. Black 117 -- IV Stars 129 -- Collapse and Formation of Stars / Alan P. Boss 131 -- Binary Neutron Stars / Tsvi Piran 141 -- SOHO Reveals the Secrets of the Sun / Kenneth R. Lang 153 -- Accretion Disks in Interacting Binary Stars / John K. Cannizzo, Ronald H. Kaitchuck 163 -- V Galaxies 177 -- How the Milky Way Formed / Sidney van den Bergh, James E. Hesser 179 -- Evolution of Galaxy Clusters / J. Patrick Henry, Ulrich G. Briel, Hans Bohringer 191 -- Colossal Galactic Explosions / Sylvain Veilleux, Gerald Cecil, Jonathan Bland-Hawthorn 199 -- Dark Matter in Spiral Galaxies / Vera Rubin 207 -- A New Look at Quasars / Michael Disney 221 -- Galaxies in the Young Universe / F. Duccio Macchetto, Mark Dickinson 229 -- VI Universe 239 -- Evolution of the Universe / P. James E. Peebles, David N. Schramm, Edwin L. Turner, Richard G. Kron 241 -- Primordial Deuterium and the Big Bang / Craig J. Hogan 251 -- Dark Matter in the Universe / Vera Rubin 259 -- Inflationary Universe / Alan H. Guth, Paul J. Steinhardt 267 -- Self-Reproducing Inflationary Universe / Andrei Linde 285 -- Black Holes and the Information Paradox / Leonard Susskind 297 -- Expansion Rate and Size of the Universe / Wendy L. Freedman 309 -- VII Technology 319 -- Early Results from the Hubble Space Telescope / Eric J. Chaisson 321 -- International Space Station / Tim Beardsley 333 -- Six Months on Mir / Shannon W. Lucid 341.
Subject: Astronomy

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