Dispatches from planet 3 : thirty-two (brief) tales on the solar system, the Milky Way, and beyond /
Bartusiak, Marcia,1950-author.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-294) and index.
Preface -- Earth Is but a Speck -- Celestial Neighborhood. Bedazzled by a Comet -- To Be...or Not to Be a Planet -- The Watery Allure of Mars -- Rings, Rings, Rings -- The Baffling White Dwarf Star -- The Star No Bigger Than a City -- Ye Old Black Hole -- As Though No Other Name Ever Existed -- Like This World of Ours -- Realm of the Galaxies. Our Spiraling Home -- The Woman Who Chased Galaxies -- Stuff of the Heavens -- Recipe for the Stars -- Find a Way Around It -- Dark Matters -- Cosmic Funhouse -- Rivers of Galaxies -- The Big Dipper Is Crying -- Einstein's Symphony -- Underground Astronomy -- Eavesdropping on the Universe -- The Once and Future Quasar -- To the Big Bang and Beyond. Finding a Cosmic Yardstick -- The Cosmologist Left Behind -- The Primeval Atom -- Proving the Big Bang -- It's Now Einstein's Universe -- The Big Burp -- The Great Escape -- Meet the Multiverse -- When the Universe Began, What Time Was It?
Astronomy
Discoveries in science.
Astronomy.
Discoveries in science.