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RECORD NUMBER: 6 OF 6| Main Title | Understanding space. | ||||||||||||
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| Publisher | Scientific American, Inc., | ||||||||||||
| Year Published | 1996 | ||||||||||||
| OCLC Number | 36914092 | ||||||||||||
| Subjects | Astronomy ; Cosmology ; Sterrenkunde | ||||||||||||
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| Collation | 119 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 28 cm. | ||||||||||||
| Notes | Cover title. Reprints of articles published in Scientific American between 1985 and 1994. Includes bibliographical references. |
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| Contents Notes | A universe of color / David F. Malin -- Mirroring the cosmos / Corey S. Powell -- Extreme ultraviolet astronomy / Stuart Bowyer -- Black holes and the centrifugal force paradox / Marek Artur Abramowicz -- Collapse and formation of stars / Alan P. Boss -- Globular clusters / Ivan R. King -- Gamma-ray bursters / Bradley E. Schaefer -- Worlds around other stars / David C. Black -- The Pioneer mission to Venus / Janet G. Luhmann, James B. Pollack and Lawrence Colin -- Pluto / Richard P. Binzel -- The expansion rate and size of the Universe / Wendy L. Freedman -- Dark matter in the universe / Lawrence M. Krauss -- Quantum cosmology and the creation of the universe / Jonathan J. Halliwell -- The self-reproducing inflationary universe / Andrei Linde -- Earth from sky / Diane L. Evans, Ellen R. Stofan, Thomas D. Jones and Linda M. Godwin. |