The Milky Way: an insider's guide

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This book offers an intimate guide to the Milky Way, taking readers on a grand tour of our home Galaxy's structure, genesis, and evolution, based on the latest astronomical findings. In engaging language, it tells how the Milky Way congealed from blobs of gas and dark matter into a spinning starry abode brimming with diverse planetary systems--some of which may be hosting myriad life forms and perhaps even other technologically communicative species. William Waller vividly describes the Milky W…

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Full title :The Milky Way : an insider's guide / William H. Waller.

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Publication Date:©2013.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Princeton University Press
Place of Publication:Princeton
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2013.

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Description:1 online resource (xi, 316 pages) : : illustrations (some color)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781400847372, 1400847370, 9781299319158, 1299319157, 0691122245, 9780691122243
oclc:ocn824118002
LC Classification:QB857.7
Dewey Decimal:523.113

First impressions -- Historic perceptions -- Panchromatic vistas -- Neighbors of the Sun -- Beacons from afar -- Star birth -- Lives of the stars -- Stellar afterlives -- The galactic garden -- Monster in the core -- Tales of origin -- Life in the Milky Way.