Galaxies
A Very Short Introduction
$29.35
- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
26 June 2008
Summary
Galaxies are the building blocks of the Universe: standing like islands in space, each is made up of many hundreds of millions of stars in which the chemical elements are made, around which planets form, and where on at least one of those planets intelligent life has emerged.
Our own galaxy, the Milky Way, is just one of several hundred million other galaxies that we can now observe through our telescopes. Yet it was only in the 1920s that we realised that there is more to the Univers…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199234349 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0199234345 |
| Author: | John Gribbin |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 26 June 2008 |
| Weight: | 128g |
| Dimensions: | 8mm x 110mm x 175mm |
| Series: | Very Short Introductions |
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John Gribbin
John Gribbin has a PhD in Astrophysics from the University of Cambridge and is one of the best-known current popular science writers.
His many books include the acclaimed The Universe: A Biography, In Search of Schrodinger’s Cat, and Science: A History.
He has written for all the UK broadsheet newspapers, regularly contributes to radio and television documentaries and debates, and also writes science fiction novels. He formerly worked for Nature and New Scientist, and is presently a Visiting Fellow in Astronomy at the University of Sussex.
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