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· 분류 : 외국도서 > 과학/수학/생태 > 과학 > 물리학 > 천체물리학
· ISBN : 9781394235049
· 쪽수 : 400쪽
· 출판일 : 2024-03-26
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Introduction 1
Part 1: Getting Started with Astrophysics 7
Chapter 1: Welcome to the Universe 9
Chapter 2: The A to Z of Physics 21
Chapter 3: Astronomy in a Nutshell 49
Chapter 4: Bridging the Gap Between Astronomy and Physics 65
Part 2: When You Wish Upon a 89
Chapter 5: Star Power: Hydrogen, Helium with a Twist of Nuclear Fusion 91
Chapter 6: Friends for Life: Star Systems and Dust Clouds 111
Chapter 7: Exoplanets: The Search for Earth 2.0 129
Chapter 8: White Dwarfs, Black Holes, and Neutrinos, Oh My! 153
Part 3: Galaxies: Teamwork Makes the Dream Work 171
Chapter 9: From Fuzzy Blobs to Majestic Spirals: The Milky Way and Other Galaxies 173
Chapter 10: Quantifying the Unknown, or How Galaxies Work 189
Chapter 11: Bigger Than Huge: Galaxy Clusters 207
Chapter 12: Weird and Wacky Galactic Phenomena 231
Part 4: Cosmology: The Beginning and the End of Everything 249
Chapter 13: The Big Bang: How It All Began 251
Chapter 14: First Light in the Universe, or How a Star is Born 273
Chapter 15: And Then It Gets Weirder: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and Relativity 289
Chapter 16: The End of It All 313
Part 5: The Part of Tens 337
Chapter 17: Ten Scientists Who Paved the Way for Astrophysics 339
Chapter 18: Ten Important Space Missions for Astrophysics 345
Glossary 353
Index 359
