Astronomy: The Universe, Equipment, Stars and Planets, Monthly Guides (Eyewitness Companions Guides) PDF
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EYEWITNESS companions Astronomy IaN rIdpaTh additional contributors giles sparrow, carole stott “Ast ron om y c om pe l s the s o u l to look upwAr d And l e Ad s us f rom th is wo r ld to Anoth e r ” Plato LONDON, NEW YORK, MUNICH, MELBOURNE, DELHI Senior Editor Peter Frances Senior Art Editor Peter Laws Managing Editor Liz Wheeler Managing Art Editor Phil Ormerod Art Director Bryn Walls Publisher Jonathan Metcalf DTP Designer John Goldsmid Production Controller Joanna Bull Produced for Dorling Kindersley by Cooling Brown Ltd Introduction 10 Creative Director Arthur Brown Project Editor Fiona Wild Designers Peter Cooling Murdo Culver Elaine Hewson Ted Kinsey Tish Jones Editors Ferdie McDonald HISTORY Amanda Lebentz Picture Researcher Louise Thomas The beginnings of First American Edition, 2006 Published in the United States by astronomy 16 DK Publishing, Inc., 375 Hudson Street, The rise of New York, NY 10014 astrophysics 22 06 07 08 09 10 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Our place in the Copyright © 2006 Dorling Kindersley Limited Text copyright © 2006 Ian Ridpath universe 24 and Dorling Kindersley Into orbit 26 All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. No part of this publication may The race to the be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted Moon 28 in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior Shuttles and stations 30 written permission of the copyright owner. Published in Exploring the solar Great Britain by Dorling Kindersley Limited. A Cataloging-in-Publication record for this book is system 34 available from the Library of Congress. Unlocking the stars 36 ISBN 0-7566-1733-2 Pushing the limits 38 ISBN 978-0-7566-1733-2 DK books are available at special discounts for bulk purchases for sales promotions, premiums, fund-raising, or educational use. For details, contact: DK Publishing THE Special Markets, 375 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014 or CONTENTS The Big Bang 48 The Moon 96 Finding your way The first stars Mars 104 134 and galaxies 52 Jupiter 108 Starting observing The expanding Saturn 112 136 universe 54 Uranus 116 Binoculars The fate of the Neptune 118 138 universe 56 Pluto 120 Telescope astronomy 140 Comets and PHENOMENA 58 meteors 122 Astrophotography 144 Star classification Asteroids and 60 meteorites 124 Stellar life cycles THE CONSTELLATIONS 62 146 THE Multiple stars and Mapping the sky NIGHT SKY clusters 70 148 Variable stars Understanding the 72 OBSERVATION 128 charts 150 Galaxies 74 The appearance of Guide to the Constellations Planets of other the sky 130 152–227 stars 79 MONTHLY SKY THE SOLAR GUIDE 228 SYSTEM 80 Our solar system ALMANAC 278 82 The Sun 84 Mercury 90 Glossary 290 Venus 92 Index 293 Earth 94 Acknowledgments 299
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