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Supernovae
Albert G. . Ed(S): Petschek
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Description for Supernovae
Paperback. Editor(s): Petschek, Albert G. Series: Astronomy and Astrophysics Library. Num Pages: 306 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PG; PHVB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 475.
For millennia mankind has watched as the heavens move in their stately progression from night to night and from year to year, presaging with their changes the changing seasons. The sun, the moon, and the planets move in what appears to be an unchanging firmament, except occasionally when a new "star" appears. Among the new stars there are comets, novae, and finally supernovae, the subject of this book. Superstitious mankind regarded these events as significant portents and recorded them carefully so that we have records of supernovae that may reach back as far as 1300 B. C. (Clark and Stephenson, ... Read more
For millennia mankind has watched as the heavens move in their stately progression from night to night and from year to year, presaging with their changes the changing seasons. The sun, the moon, and the planets move in what appears to be an unchanging firmament, except occasionally when a new "star" appears. Among the new stars there are comets, novae, and finally supernovae, the subject of this book. Superstitious mankind regarded these events as significant portents and recorded them carefully so that we have records of supernovae that may reach back as far as 1300 B. C. (Clark and Stephenson, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
306
Condition
New
Series
Astronomy and Astrophysics Library
Number of Pages
293
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781461279518
SKU
V9781461279518
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