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LIFE NATURE LIBRARY THE UNIVERSE OTHER BOOKS BYTHE EDITORS OF LIFE: Life's Picture History ofWorld War II Life's Picture HistoryofWestern Man W The orldWe Live In with Lincoln Barnett The World's Great Reugions America'sArts and Skills Picture Cook Book The SecondWorld War with WinstonS. Churchill The Wonders of Life on Earth with Lincoln Barnett Life World Library Life PictorialAtlas ofthe World with TheEditorsofRandMcNally The Epic of Man The Life Treasury of American Folklore Life Guideto Paris LIFE NATURE LIBR.\RY THE UNIVERSE by David Bergamini and The Editors of LIFE TIME IXCORPORATED NEW YORK About the Author David Bergamini is the son ofa missionary architect whose worl^took him and his family to many places in the Far East. Bergamini was born in Tokyo, spent his childhood in China and was a 13-year-old living in the Philippines when World War II broke out. He was put in a concentration camp and spent much of his time stud\ing mathe- matics, which led to an interest in astronomy. After the war he vvent to Dartmouth, majoring in English and minoring in mathematics, and was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford from 1949 to 1951. He spent 10 yearswith Life Magazine as a reporter and editor in the science de- partment before leaving to devote his full time to writing. While with Life, he \vas one ofthe staff that produced The World We Live In. He has had a numberof articles published on scientific subjects, includ- ing "The Language of Science,"" which has been reprinted in essay anthologies. He is also the author of The Fleet in the Wmdnw a novel , drawn from his wartime experiences in a Philippine prison camp. On the Cover A distant nebula, its gases glowing brightfromtheradiationofahidden star buried in its depths, looks red becauseit is in back ofa dust cloud which blots out other colors which arepresentinthe spectrum oflight. The Universe © 1962 by Time Inc. .Ml rights reserved. Published simultaneously in Canada. Library ofCongress catalog card number 62-18337. Contents PAGE Introduction 7 1 Myths and Misconceptions 9 2 Probing the Universe 31 3 Planets, Meteorites and Comets 63 4 Biography of the Sun * 85 5 What Our Galaxy Is Made Of loe 6 The Birth and Death of Stars 129 7 Beyond the Milky Way 145 8 Space, Time and the Universe i69 Appendix Glossary and Tables 187 Bibliography 188 Index 189 192 Credits TIME INC. BOOKDIVISION Editor:NormanP. Ross CupyDirector: WilliamJavGold ArtDirector: EdwardA. Hamilton Chief0/Research: BeatriceT. Dobie EDITORIAL.STAFFFOR -THEL'NIVERSE" Editor. LIFEMatureLibrary:MaitlandA. Ede'i' AssistantstotheEditor:GeorgeMcCue,JohnPaulPorter CopyEditor:JohnPurcell Designer: PaulJensen ChiefResearcher: MarthaTurner Researchers: DorisBr\-, PeggvBushong, EleanorFeltser, LeClairG. Lambert, PaulaNorworth, Roxan.naSa'ire, PaulW Schwartz,VictorH. Waldrop, RogerB. Wiesenbach. PhyllisM. Williamson ' PictureResearchers:MargaretK.Goldsmith,JoanT. L'iNCH ArtAssociate: RobertL. Young ArtAssistants:JamesD.Smith, MarkA. Binn CopyStaff:MarianGordonGoldman,SuzanneSeixas, DoloresA. Littles Fhtbtisher:JeromeS. Hardy GeneralManager:JohnWaiters LIFEMAGAZINE Editor ManagingEditor Publisher EdwardK.Thompson GeorgeP.Hunt C.D.Jackson Thetext forthe chapters ofthis book was written by David Bergamini, tor the picture essays by Harvey B. Loomis, Percy Knauth, Robert McClung, Peter Meyerson, David Bergamini, John Purcell andJohn Stanton. The following individuals and departments of Life Magazine were especiallyhelpful in the production of the book: Fritz Goro, Dmitri Kessel, Margaret Bourke- White, Larry Burrows and Ralph Morse, staff photographers, and Doris O'Neil, Chief of the Life Picture Library. Valuable assistance was also given by Donald Bermingham of the Time- LifeNews.Service, andContent Peckham, Chiefofthe Time Inc. Bureau ofEditorial Reference.
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