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Sparrow Giles: The Cosmic Gallery: The Most Beautiful Images of the Universe

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: The heavens are alive with breathtaking beauty: from the incandescent surface of the Sun to the shimmering tail of a comet; the birth of planets to the death of stars; the dancing shadows of Jupiter's moons to the silhouettes of eclipses. The Cosmic Gallery contemplates the entire cosmos as a grand celestial art exhibit. In six thematically organized chapters, Giles Sparrow presents an array of…

Sparrow Giles: The Universe: In 100 Key Discoveries

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: This stunning collection of cutting-edge images and concise essays surveys the key breakthroughs that have shaped our understanding of the universe around us — from the discovery of the solar system to Supermassive black holes and the remote depths of the cosmos. Beginning with the theories put forward for the origin of our universe — the Big Bang and its rivals — and ending with what the…

Sparrow Giles: Cosmos Close-up

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Using a wealth of high-resolution images collected by a fleet of telescopes, satellites and inter-planetary probes, Cosmos Close-up embarks on a voyage across the universe, pausing only to zoom in on the most spectacular planets, stars, galaxies and nebulae. After a fly past of our planetary neighbours we reach the edge of the solar system — a mere 15 light hours away — emerging into interstellar…

Sparrow Giles: Hubble

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has been taking stunning images of space for 20 years. It is one of the largest and most versatile space telescopes and its orbit outside the distortion of Earth's atmosphere allows it to take extremely sharp images with almost no background light. As an observatory in space, Hubble is one of the most successful scientific projects of all time, both in terms of…

Sparrow Giles: Cosmos

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: The magnificent vault of stars emblazoning Earth's night skies are but an infinitesimal fraction of the hundreds of billions that inhabit our galaxy — and there are at least as many galaxies in the universe as there are stars in the Milky Way. Cosmos makes sense of this dizzying celestial panorama by exploring it one step at a time, illustrating the planets, moons, stars, nebulae, white dwarfs,…