This anthology is intended to encapsulate his vast knowledge of the night sky, accumulated during a long and fruitful career as a writer and an observer. O'Meara introduces each section with his own reminiscences and impressions, and each chapter concludes with a table of the objects discussed for that month. Not since Apollo 13 had a mission been beset by so many near-fatal catastrophes. Images in full color from space-based telescopes paired with thoughts and reflections of scientists, theologians, poets and philosophers. C. M. Carollo, et al.
Bulges lie at the center of spiral galaxies.
Until recently, they were thought to host uniquely old stellar populations and thus provide a key for understanding galaxy formation. Recent observations from the ground and space have drastically changed our view on the nature of bulges and shown that they can also contain dust, gas and star-forming regions. Based on Terry Lectures given at Yale in October 1996. Phenomena, Time-Scales and Coordinate Systems, Sun, Moon, Major Planets, Satellites of the Planets, Minor Planets and Comets, Stars and Stellar Systems, Observatories, Tables and Data. This account, from Jan's perspective, is accompanied by paintings, photographs, diagrams, and sidebars that follow the flight from the rocket's liftoff to the moment when the command module made its fiery reentry into the earth's atmosphere.