The Hundred Greatest StarsSpringer Science & Business Media, 7. 5. 2006 - Počet stran: 211 I have always loved the stars. I watch them, photograph one. And you can hardly talk about Zubenelgenubi them, research them, write about them. Their wonder without bringing in Zubeneschamali, so they too are is that they are there not simply for scientists, but for treated within one story. The Sun is not included in the all of us, filling the night sky with their sparkling beauty. 100 list, but instead leads the pack as “Star Zero. ” There are as many different kinds as there are stars Before describing the glories of the 100 stars, an themselves, each an individual. The heavens give us introduction briefs the beginning stargazer on basic bright ones, dim ones, near ones, far ones, the aged, stellar properties and explains the astronomical the young, those that help tell our ancient stories, and terminology, without which we would be continuously those nearly invisible even with the greatest of our tongue-tied. A separate glossary provides a quick technologies. Taken together, they relate the tale of our reminder. Then we move on to the stars themselves. existence, of the birth, life, and death of the Sun on Each of my favorite stars is introduced by a short which we depend. |
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Strana vii
... bright ones, dim ones, near ones, far ones, the aged, the young, those that help tell our ancient stories, and those nearly invisible even with the greatest of our technologies. Taken together, they relate the tale of our existence, of ...
... bright ones, dim ones, near ones, far ones, the aged, the young, those that help tell our ancient stories, and those nearly invisible even with the greatest of our technologies. Taken together, they relate the tale of our existence, of ...
Strana xi
... bright stars. Vast, unnamed areas of the night aky appear between these ancient constellations, of course, and to the naked eye, appear to contain only drab stars, or no stars at all. Then there are the stars of the far Southern ...
... bright stars. Vast, unnamed areas of the night aky appear between these ancient constellations, of course, and to the naked eye, appear to contain only drab stars, or no stars at all. Then there are the stars of the far Southern ...
Strana xiii
... bright, especially in the direction of its center in Sagittarius. Surrounding the disk is a huge spherical halo only sparsely occupied by stars. The disk rotates. Each star has its own separate orbit, not unlike the planets of our Solar ...
... bright, especially in the direction of its center in Sagittarius. Surrounding the disk is a huge spherical halo only sparsely occupied by stars. The disk rotates. Each star has its own separate orbit, not unlike the planets of our Solar ...
Strana xiv
... bright to an infrared detector can be completely invisible optically. Since Hipparchus's apparent magnitudes are as seen with the eye, they are called “apparent visual magnitudes,” and are the ones used in the stories that follow ...
... bright to an infrared detector can be completely invisible optically. Since Hipparchus's apparent magnitudes are as seen with the eye, they are called “apparent visual magnitudes,” and are the ones used in the stories that follow ...
Strana xix
... bright, cool stars must be large in radius. An extreme M giant can have a total, or bolometric, luminosity 20 magnitudes (100 million times) greater than an M dwarf. At their biggest, they can have diameters over 100 times that of the ...
... bright, cool stars must be large in radius. An extreme M giant can have a total, or bolometric, luminosity 20 magnitudes (100 million times) greater than an M dwarf. At their biggest, they can have diameters over 100 times that of the ...
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Mizar and Alcor Mu Cephei Mu Columbae MXB 1730335 | 153 |
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RS Ophiuchi SGR 1900+14 Sigma Octantis Sirius 16 Cygni 61 Cygni Spica SS Cygni SS 433 | 205 |
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