The most interesting galaxies in the universe /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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San Rafael [California] (40 Oak Drive, San Rafael, CA, 94903, USA) :
Morgan and Claypool Publishers,
[2018]
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| Series: | IOP (Series). Release 5.
IOP concise physics. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Abstract: | Prior to the 1920s it was generally thought, with a few exceptions, that our galaxy, the Milky Way, was the entire Universe. Based on the work of Henrietta Leavitt with Cepheid variables, astronomer Edwin Hubble was able to determine that the Andromeda Galaxy and others had to lie outside our own. Moreover, based on the work of Vesto Slipher, involving the redshifts of these galaxies, Hubble was able to determine that the Universe was not static, as had been previously thought, but expanding. |
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| Item Description: | "Version: 20180901"--Title page verso. "A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations (some color). Also available in printing. |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader, EPUB reader, or Kindle reader. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781643270043 9781643270029 |
| ISSN: | 2053-2571 |