A highly readable and entertaining guide to modern cosmology. Brings to life new discoveries in the farthest reaches of space, making astronomy accessible to the general reader. Discusses, in nontechnical language, cosmic strings, inflationary models of the early universe, the superstring theory, quasars, galactic streamers, superluminal jets, and gravitational lenses. Building from an historical perspective, the author describes exotic celestial phenomena, and explains the latest theories of the birth and death of the universe.
- ISBN10 0471632821
- ISBN13 9780471632825
- Publish Date 11 July 1988
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 14 May 1997
- Publish Country US
- Imprint John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English