The new cosmos
Subtitle: answering astronomy's big questions
By: David J. Eicher, editor-in-chief, Astronomy magazine ; foreword by Alex Filippenko, University of California, Berkeley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9781107068858
Subjects: Astronomy; Cosmology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-263) and index.
Table of contents: title: The awakening of astronomy; title: How the Sun will die; title: The end of life on Earth; title: How the Moon formed; title: Where has all the water gone?; title: Why did Venus turn inside-out?; title: Is Pluto a planet?; title: Planets everywhere...; title: The Milky Way as barred spiral; title: Here come Milkomeda; title: The Big Bang's cosmic echo; title: How large is the universe?; title: The mystery of dark matter; title: The bigger mystery of dark energy; title: Black holes are ubiquitous; title: What is the universe's fate?; title: The meaning of life in the universe.