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Galaxies: A Very Short Introduction

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John Gribben tells the story of our growing understanding of galaxies, from the days before Galileo to our present-day observations of our many hundreds of millions of galactic neighbors. Not only are galaxies fascinating astronomical structures in themselves, but their study has revealed much of what we know today about the cosmos, providing a window on the Big Bang and the origins of the Universe. Gribben looks at our own "Milky Way" Galaxy in detail, from the different kinds of stars that are born within it, to the ...

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Galaxies: A Very Short Introduction 2008, Oxford University Press, USA, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780199234349

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