Lauren Jones

Guide to the Universe

Stars and Galaxies

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This up-to-date volume offers student researchers an unexcelled primer on current scientific knowledge about stars. This volume in the Greenwood Guides to the Universe series provides the most up-to-date understanding available of the current knowledge about stars. Scientifically sound, but written with the student in mind, Stars is an excellent first step for young people researching the exciting scientific discoveries that continue to extend our knowledge of the universe. Stars is organized thematically to help students better understand these most interesting heavenly bodies. Stars discusses all areas of what is known about the subject. It will help student understand things such as white dwarfs, neutron stars, pulsars, and black holes. And it will answer student questions such as: Why do stars have different colors and how are they classified? How do we know what stars are made of? How did scientists figure out how stars evolved? * 66 illustrations * Glossary of star-related and astronomy terms * A bibliography of useful resources will guide students in learning more about the subject

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 641g
• ISBN-13: 9780313340758
• ISBN-10: 0313340757
• Artikelnr.: 26432940

Autorenporträt

Lauren Jones is passionate about helping leaders build sustainable businesses. Her decades of experience specialising in strategic facilitation, skills development, systems implementation and continual improvement for organisations has increased clarity and focus on outcomes, built efficiency and increased profitability with the clients she so enjoys working with. She is an author, facilitator, trainer and mentor and you can find out more about her at www.laurenjones.com.au