Frontiers in astronomy; readings from Scientific American.

Title
  1. Frontiers in astronomy; readings from Scientific American. With introductions by Owen Gingerich.
Published by
  1. San Francisco, W.H. Freeman [1970]

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Additional authors
  1. Gingerich, Owen
Description
  1. viii, 370 pages illustrations (some color), charts (some color), maps (some color), portraits; 29 cm
Uniform title
  1. Scientific American.
Subject
  1. Astronomy
  2. Astronomy
  3. astronomy
  4. 39.00 astronomy: general
  5. Astronomie
  6. Sterrenkunde
  7. ASTROPHYSICS
  8. SCIENCE
  9. ASTRONOMY
  10. RELATIVITY
  11. COSMOLOGY
  12. PHYSICS
Contents
  1. The confirmation of continental drift / Hurley -- The lunar orbiter missions to the moon / Levin, Viele, and Eldrenkamp -- Radar observations of the planets / Shapiro -- The atmospheres of Mars and Venus / Eshleman -- The discovery of Icarus / Richardson -- Jupiter's Great Red Spot / Hide -- The solar system beyond Neptune / Gingerich -- The solar chromosphere / Athay -- The solar wind / Parker -- Neutrinos from the sun / Bahcall -- Life outside the solar system / Huang -- The Crab Nebula / Oort -- The youngest stars / Herbig -- Dying stars / Greenstein -- Stellar populations / Burbidge and Burbidge -- The arms of the galaxy / Bok -- Interstellar grains / Greenberg -- Hydroxyl radicals in space / Robinson -- Pulsating stars and comic distances / Kraft -- Hydrogen in galaxies / Roberts -- The evolution of galaxies / Arp -- Exploding galaxies / Sandage -- Seyfert galaxies / Weymann -- X-Ray astronomy / Friedman -- The infrared sky / Neugebauer and Leighton -- Ultraviolet astronomy / Goldberg -- Pulsars / Hewish -- The Red-Shift / Sandage -- The evolutionary universe / Gamow -- The problem of the Quasi-stellar objects / Burbidge and Hoyle -- The primeval fireball / Peebles and Wilkinson -- Cosmology before and after quasars / Sciama -- The origin of galaxies / Rees and Silk.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Note
  1. Published in 1975 under title: New frontiers in astronomy.
Bibliography (note)
  1. "Biographical notes and bibliographies": p. [353]-365.