Stars and Galaxies

by Michael A. Seeds, Dana Backman, Dana E. Backmam

Book Overview

Fascinating, engaging and extremely visual, STARS AND GALAXIES, 10th Edition, is renowned for its current coverage, reader-friendly presentation and detailed--yet clear--explanations. The authors'... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1111990662
• ISBN13: 9781111990664
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.9" x 10.8"

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College text material

This book is required at Northern Illinois University for a course in elemental astronomy. It comes with a handy cd-rom helpful for finding stars, planets, etc. Did you know that there is a measurement that is more helpful than light years? It is parsec. Read the book to see how to understand this measurement. Also, guess how many grains of suger are there in a quart jar. The answer is at the bottom of this page. Give up? If that and other mind blowing things interest you then read this book. There are ten billion stars in our galaxy, called the Milky Way, and there are billions of galaxies. (there are about a half billion grains).