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
... star's character. The stars are arranged alphabetically by the name I know them by best. (Since stars commonly have two or even more names, other arrangements are possible, and these are given in Appendix A at book's end.) Each star is ...
... star's character. The stars are arranged alphabetically by the name I know them by best. (Since stars commonly have two or even more names, other arrangements are possible, and these are given in Appendix A at book's end.) Each star is ...
Strana x
... STARS? Even though humans have been thinking about the stars for thousands of years, we still have yet to come up with a good definition of just what a star is. The simplest description is that stars are the self-luminous condensates of ...
... STARS? Even though humans have been thinking about the stars for thousands of years, we still have yet to come up with a good definition of just what a star is. The simplest description is that stars are the self-luminous condensates of ...
Strana xi
... stars provides the neccessary conditions. In the center of the Sun, the temperature is 16 million degrees Celsius, and the density is 150 times that of water. From the center out to about a quarter of the solar radius, protons ...
... stars provides the neccessary conditions. In the center of the Sun, the temperature is 16 million degrees Celsius, and the density is 150 times that of water. From the center out to about a quarter of the solar radius, protons ...
Strana xii
... stars' appearances or placements. DENEB, at the tail of Cygnus the Swan, means just that, “tail,” in Arabic. Such names are still widely used for the brighter stars, but they are difficult to recall, and duplication can cause confusion ...
... stars' appearances or placements. DENEB, at the tail of Cygnus the Swan, means just that, “tail,” in Arabic. Such names are still widely used for the brighter stars, but they are difficult to recall, and duplication can cause confusion ...
Strana xiii
... stars lie within 100 light years of us, but some are up to thousands of light years distant. Using these measurements in conjunction with others (such as radio observations of interstellar gases), we find that all the stars you see at ...
... stars lie within 100 light years of us, but some are up to thousands of light years distant. Using these measurements in conjunction with others (such as radio observations of interstellar gases), we find that all the stars you see at ...
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Mizar and Alcor Mu Cephei Mu Columbae MXB 1730335 | 153 |
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Acrux Adhara AG Draconis Albireo Algol Alpha Centauri Alphard Antares Arcturus Barnards Star Beta Canis Majoris Beta Cassiopeiae Beta Lyrae B... | 204 |
RS Ophiuchi SGR 1900+14 Sigma Octantis Sirius 16 Cygni 61 Cygni Spica SS Cygni SS 433 | 205 |
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