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• What Exactly Is The Milky Way?

  Simply put, the galaxy is the galaxy in which we live, it contains a cluster of over two hundred billion stars including our Sun and indeed our solar system. It is only one of over one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe. Our solar system is located on one of the six spiral arms [...]

• Cosmic Clouds: Birth, Death, and Recycling in the Galaxy (“Scientific American” Library)

  Cosmic Clouds is about the creation of stars, the Sun, the planets, Earth and ourselves. The book examines the entire path of star birth and stellar recycling, in which one generation of stars sends a good portion of itself, including compressive forces and a lot of freshly-made chemical elements, back into the stellar nurseries to [...]

• The Last Mission to the Hubble Telescope

  The Hubble has given us pictures of merging galaxies, asteroids, new galaxies, the rings around Uranus, and other planets. It has given scientists insights into star formation and star death. The Hubble Deep Field has produced pictures of distant galaxies nearly ten billion years ago. Hubble has produced information on Black Holes and Gamma-Ray bursts, [...]

• HT USE AN ASTRONOMICAL TELESCO

  Astronomy has never been a more popular pastime than it is today. The increased availability of less expensive, more powerful, and more sophisticated telescopes has given rise to a new generation of stargazers. And for these beginning astronomers here is the comprehensive book covering everything from the difficult task of selecting an instrument to the [...]

• The Veil of Isis: An Essay on the History of the Idea of Nature

  Nearly twenty-five hundred years ago the Greek thinker Heraclitus supposedly uttered the cryptic words “Phusis kruptesthai philei.” How the aphorism, usually translated as “Nature loves to hide,” has haunted Western culture ever since is the subject of this engaging study by Pierre Hadot. Taking the allegorical figure of the veiled goddess Isis as a guide, [...]