Extreme cosmos A guided tour of the fastest, brightest, hottest, heaviest, oldest, and most amazing aspects of our universe
Book - 2012
An Australian astronomer and professor provides an accessible tour of the universe, discussing the temperature, light, time, size, speed, mass, gravity and more of the largest supernovas to the tiniest asteroids.
- Subjects
- Published
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New York :
Penguin Group
2012.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- 1st American ed
- Item Description
- "A Perigee book."
Originally published: Kensington, N.S.W. : University of New South Wakes Press, c2011. - Physical Description
- x, 240 p. ; 21 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-235) and index.
- ISBN
- 9780399537516
- Extremes of temperature
- Extremes of light
- Extremes of time
- Extremes of size
- Extremes of speed
- Extremes of mass
- Extremes of sound
- Extremes of electricity and magnetism
- Extremes of gravity
- Extremes of density
- Extreme experiences.