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<STRONG>Astronomy in Depth</STRONG> fills the need for a textbook that covers pre-university level Astronomy courses (in the UK, the GCSE syllabuses) and provides numerical examples to help students. It is also written as a serious foundation in Astronomy for amateurs who want to take a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: North, Gerald
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Springer, [2003]
Subjects:
Astronomy.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • List of Figures
  • Spaceship Earth
  • The Language of Starlight
  • The Moon
  • The Universal Force
  • The Inferior Planets
  • The Planet Mars
  • The Planet Jupiter
  • The Planet Saturn
  • The Twilight Zone of the Solar System
  • The Debris of the Solar System
  • The Comets
  • The Sun
  • The Celestial Sphere and Time
  • The Stars
  • Gas, Dust, Stars and Variable Stars
  • Stellar Evolution
  • Brown Dwarfs and Extra-solar Planets
  • Violent Stars
  • The Galaxies
  • Quasars, Active Galaxies and Cosmology
  • Glossary of Terms
  • Answers to the Numerical Questions
  • Index.