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Product DescriptionKey Benefit: For one-semester Introduction to Astronomy courses. With Astronomy: A Beginner’s Guide, Sixth Edition, trusted authors Eric Chaisson and Steve McMillan communicate their excitement about astronomy and awaken readers to the universe around them. Thoroughly updated, the revised edition focuses on the process of scientific discovery and [...]
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The two galaxies on the far left were unknown until 1968.
Although they would have appeared as two of the brighter galaxies on the night sky, the opaque dust of the
central band of our
Milky Way Galaxy had
obscured them from being seen in visible light.
The above image in
infrared light taken by [...]
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Astronomy is a serious science. Astronomy for kids is a thought provoking pursuit that can teach them about the sciences in general. Kids are naturally drawn to many aspects of astronomy. These include the moon, the stars and far distant galaxies.
The Earth’s closest neighbor is the moon. It orbits our planet once every 27.3 days. [...]
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The modern classic, completely updated.
The newest edition of The Backyard Astronomer’s Guide includes the latest data and answers the questions most often asked by home astronomers, from beginners to experienced stargazers. Terence Dickinson and Alan Dyer provide expert guidance on the right types [...]
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This beautiful cosmic portrait
features NGC 891.
The spiral galaxy
spans about 100 thousand light-years and is seen almost exactly edge-on
from our perspective.
In fact, about 30 million light-years distant in the constellation
Andromeda,
NGC 891 looks a lot
like our Milky Way.
At first glance, it has a
flat, thin, galactic disk and
a central bulge cut along the middle [...]
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Astronomy is a fun science filled with many astronomy fun facts. This includes information about the size of stars and the distance of our earth from the center of our own Milky Way galaxy.
Astronomy fun facts about our own star, the sun, are almost endless. It’s somewhere between 91 and 94.5 million miles away from [...]
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This
sharp, wide-field view features
infrared light from the spiral
Andromeda Galaxy (M31).
Dust heated by Andromeda’s young stars is shown in yellow and red,
while its older population of stars appears as a bluish haze.
The false-color skyscape is a mosaic of images from NASA’s new
Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
satellite.
With over twice the diameter of
our Milky [...]
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This pretty
open cluster of stars,
M34, is about the size of
the Full Moon on the sky.
Easy to appreciate in small telescopes,
it lies some 1,800 light-years away in the constellation
Perseus.
At that distance, M34 physically spans about 15 light-years.
Formed at the same time from the same cloud of dust and gas,
all the stars of [...]
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If you ask a lot of kids if they enjoy science a good portion of them will make a face or tell you that it is not their favorite subject. Despite the disinterest in science for a lot of children, we can and should foster a love of astronomy in children. In fact, it [...]
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