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how we discovered the cosmos
By Paul Murdin
"Secrets of the universe" was published by The University of Chicago Press in 2010 - Chicago, it has 341 pages and the language of the book is English.
“Secrets of the universe” Metadata:
- Title: Secrets of the universe
- Author: Paul Murdin
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 341
- Publisher: ➤ The University of Chicago Press
- Publish Date: 2010
- Publish Location: Chicago
“Secrets of the universe” Subjects and Themes:
- Subjects: Astronomy, history - Cosmology, history - Cosmology - History - Astronomy
Edition Specifications:
- Pagination: p. cm.
Edition Identifiers:
- The Open Library ID: OL23213226M - OL4798610W
- Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) ID: 317922833
- Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN): 2009016382
- ISBN-13: 9780226551432
- ISBN-10: 0226551431
- All ISBNs: 0226551431 - 9780226551432
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"Secrets of the universe" Table Of Contents:
- 1- Discoveries before the telescope
- 2- The seven planets
- 3- Wandering stars
- 4- Stars and constellations
- 5- Our human link with the ice age
- 6- The milky way
- 7- Path of the gods, souls and pilgrims
- 8- The shape of the Earth
- 9- Our planet, a flattened sphere
- 10- The southern constellations
- 11- Hidden stars revealed by the tilting earth
- 12- The sun
- 13- At the centre of the solar system
- 14- Discoveries in the solar system
- 15- Comets
- 16- Disasters, sun-grazers and the 'lady's comet'
- 17- The satellites of Jupiter
- 18- Galileo shatters the crystal spheres
- 19- The phases of Venus
- 20- Revealing the shape of the Copernican system
- 21- Uranus
- 22- William Herschel discovers the first new planet
- 23- Neptune
- 24- The planet discovered by the pen
- 25- Asteroids
- 26- Remnants of the early solar system
- 27- Pluto
- 28- A planet deliberately sought, but not a planet
- 29- And discovered by accident
- 30- The Kuiper belt
- 31- The frontier of the solar system
- 32- Meteors and meteorites
- 33- The sky is falling!
- 34- Meteor showers
- 35- In the middle of the night, stars fell like rain
- 36- The Earth's magnetosphere
- 37- Our defence against the sun
- 38- Comets
- 39- Sandbanks or dirty snowballs?
- 40- The Earth's climate, the seasons and the weather
- 41- Astronomical cycles
- 42- Asteroid impacts on the Earth
- 43- The true origin of craters on Earth
- 44- Origin of the moon
- 45- Neither daughter nor sister of the Earth
- 46- Mercury
- 47- The late heavy bombardment
- 48- The greenhouse effect
- 49- Venus and the Earth
- 50- Mars
- 51- The dying planet
- 52- Water on Mars and Europa
- 53- Evidence for extraterrestrial life?
- 54- Volcanoes on Io
- 55- Linda Morabito makes a chance discovery
- 56- Saturn and the gas giant planets
- 57- Lords of the rings
- 58- Discoveries of the dynamic universe
- 59- Helium
- 60- The cosmic element
- 61- Gravitation
- 62- Determinism and chaos
- 63- Relativity
- 64- The nature of space and time
- 65- Radio waves
- 66- A new window on the universe
- 67- X-rays from space
- 68- The energetic universe
- 69- Variable stars
- 70- Discovery of star systems
- 71- Sirius B and white dwarfs
- 72- Discovery of stellar cinders
- 73- Neutron stars and pulsars
- 74- Lighthouse stars
- 75- Black holes
- 76- A solution looking for a problem
- 77- Discoveries of our galaxy and its stars
- 78- Distances of the stars
- 79- The radiance of a star that was shining years ago
- 80- The discovery of our galaxy
- 81- Stars in an island universe
- 82- Interstellar nebulae
- 83- Stars, molecules, dust and gas
- 84- Star clusters
- 85- Nebulae resolved
- 86- Supernovae
- 87- Origins of the stardust from which we are made
- 88- Supernova 1987a
- 89- The whisper and the vision
- 90- Cepheid variable stars
- 91- Stars' heartbeats that measure the universe
- 92- Exoplanets
- 93- Other worlds beyond ours
- 94- The energy of the sun and stars
- 95- Discovery of nuclear fusion
- 96- The origin of the elements
- 97- Making star stuff
- 98- Inside the sun
- 99- Whispers and rings
- 100- The crab nebula
- 101- A supernova remnant
- 102- Planetary nebulae
- 103- Looking into secret places
- 104- The origin of the stars and the planets
- 105- The solar nebula and proplyds
- 106- Interstellar dust
- 107- Curtains of diamonds and graphite
- 108- Discoveries of the universe and its galaxies
- 109- Hydrogen, the most abundant element in the universe
- 110- Galaxies
- 111- Ellipticals, spirals and mergers
- 112- Magellanic clouds
- 113- Our neighbour galaxies
- 114- Quasars
- 115- Active galaxies
- 116- Supermassive black holes
- 117- Monsters at the centres of galaxies
- 118- Black hole in our galaxy
- 119- A dormant monster
- 120- Gamma-ray bursters
- 121- The biggest bangs since the big bang
- 122- Evolving universe
- 123- The past, the present and the future
- 124- The cosmic microwave background
- 125- The after-glow of the big bang
- 126- Darkness at night
- 127- The missing galaxies
- 128- Future discoveries
- 129- Dark matter
- 130- A dark secret to uncover : dark energy
- 131- On the threshold of a profound discovery
- 132- Gravitational waves
- 133- Whispers of neutron stars and the big bang
- 134- Life in the universe
- 135- Are we alone?
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