A journey through the universe : a traveler's guide from the centre of the sun to the edge of the unknown
2022
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Space is astonishingly, mind-blowingly empty. But then there are the stars and planets. Some are familiar from our own backyard: yellow suns, rocky planets like Mars, gas and ice giants like Jupiter and Neptune. But there are many more: giant stars, red and white dwarfs, super-earths and hot Jupiters. Elsewhere are swirling clouds of dust giving birth to stars, and infinitely dense regions of space-time called black holes. These clump together in the star clusters we call galaxies, and the clusters of galaxies we call galaxy clusters. As we travel further we encounter ever more weird, wonderful and dangerous entities: supernovas, supermassive black holes, quasars, pulsars, neutron stars, black dwarfs, quark stars, gamma ray bursts and cosmic strings. 'A Journey Through The Universe' is a grand tour of the most amazing celestial objects and how they fit together to build the cosmos.
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London : John Murray Learning, 2022.
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240 pages ; 20 cm.
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9781529381979 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
523.1
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English
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BRN:
2287175
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