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Challenges of Astronomy

Challenges of Astronomy

Schlosser, W.
Schmidt-Kaler, T.
Milone, E. F.

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Astronomy & SpacePhysics

ISBN10: 0387974083
ISBN13: 9780387974088
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: May 10 1991
Pages: 236
Weight: 1.43
Height: 0.63 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Challenges of Astronomy in a unique collection of thirty astronomy experiments ranging from ancient astronomy to cosmology. Each of the experiments contains one or more challenges for the reader. The progression is from the Earth outward through the solar system to the stellar and galactic realm. Topics include the shape of the sky, Stonehenge as a stoneage abacus, determination of the size of the Earth, the distance of the Moon and planets, Kepler's laws, planetary mass and density, the temperatures and atmospheres of planets, the speed of light, the distances of stars, the nature of the quiet and active Sun, photometry and spectroscopy, stars clusters and variable stars, fundamental properties of stars, and Olber's paradox.

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