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Wonders of the Universe [Hardback]

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  • Formāts: Hardback, 256 pages, height x width x depth: 276x216x22 mm, weight: 1243 g, Illustrations
  • Sērija : Wonders
  • Izdošanas datums: 12-Jul-2011
  • Izdevniecība: Collins
  • ISBN-10: 0062110543
  • ISBN-13: 9780062110541
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  • Formāts: Hardback, 256 pages, height x width x depth: 276x216x22 mm, weight: 1243 g, Illustrations
  • Sērija : Wonders
  • Izdošanas datums: 12-Jul-2011
  • Izdevniecība: Collins
  • ISBN-10: 0062110543
  • ISBN-13: 9780062110541
Citas grāmatas par šo tēmu:

Experience our universe as you've never seen it before

13.7 billion years old. 93 billion light-years across. It contains over 100 billion galaxies, each containing hundreds of billions of stars. This infinite, vast and complex Universe has been the subject of human fascination and scientific exploration for thousands of years. The wonders of the Universe might seem alien to us and impossible to understand, but away from the telescopes, the labs and the white coats, Professor Brian Cox uses the evidence found in the natural world on Earth to brilliantly explain the truth of the cosmos.

Professor Cox will show how the vast and unfathomable phenomena of deep space can be explained, and even experienced, by re-examining the familiar here on Earth. He is determined to answer the most profound questions we can ask about ourselves and the world in which we live, but in a uniquely understandable way. The laws of light, gravity, time, matter and energy that govern us here on Earth are the same as those applied in the Universe. Using his expert knowledge and his infectious enthusiasm, Professor Cox shows us that if we can understand the impact of these governing laws on Earth it will bring us a step closer to an understanding of our Universe.

Chapter 1 Messengers
The Story Of Light
16(16)
Our place in the Universe
Our galactic neighbourhood
Mapping the Milky Way Galaxy
The shape of our galaxy
A star is born
What Is Light?
32(12)
Young's double-slit experiment
Messengers from across the ocean of space
Chasing the speed of light
The search for a cosmic clock
Speed limits
Time Travel
44(22)
To the dawn of time
Finding Andromeda
The Hubble Telescope
Hubble's most important image
All the colours of the rainbow
Hubble expansion
Redshift
The Birth Of The Universe
66(12)
Visible light
Picturing the past
First sight
Chapter 2 Stardust
The Origins Of Being
78(24)
The cycle of life
Mapping the night sky
Stellar nurseries
How to find exoplanets
The orgins of life
The Periodic Table
The universal chemistry set
What are stars made of?
The Early Universe
102(16)
El Tatio Geysers, Chile
The Big Bang
Sub-atomic particles
Timeline of the Universe: The Big Bang to the present
Matter by numbers
The most powerful explosion on Earth
From Big Bang To Sunshine: The First Stars
118(22)
Red giant
Star death
Planetary nebulae
The rarest of all
Supernova: life cycle of a star
The beginning and the end
The orgin of life
Chapter 3 Falling
Full Force
140(20)
The invisible string
The apple that never fell
The grand sculpture
The geoid
The Tug Of The Moon
160(12)
The false dawn
The Blue Marble
Galactic cannibals
Collision course
When galaxies collide
Feeling The Force
172(28)
The gravity paradox
The land of little green men
What is gravity?
Einstein's Theory of General Relativity
Into the darkness
The anatomy of a black hole
Chapter 4 Destiny
The Passage Of Time
200(28)
The cosmic clock
The galactic clock
Ancient life
The arrow of time
The order of disorder
Entropy in action
The life cycle of the Universe
The life of the Universe
The Destiny Of Stars
228
The demise of our universe
The death of the Sun
The last stars
The beginning of the end
A very precious time