Arthur Upgren

Many Skies

Alternative Histories of the Sun, Moon, Planets, and Stars

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines the changes in science that alternative solar, stellar, and galactic arrangements would have brought, and explores the different theologies, astrologies, and methods of tracking time that would have developed to reflect them. Upgren also explores the actual ways that human interferences such as light pollution are changing the night sky. From fanciful to foreboding, the scenarios in Many Skies will both delight and inspire reflection.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 290g
• ISBN-13: 9780813553504
• ISBN-10: 0813553504
• Artikelnr.: 34952539

Autorenporträt

Upgren, Arthur

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: The Sun and the Moon
Our Three Moons
Within a Triple Star
Our Backward Stellar Magnitude System
An Improper Proper Motion
All Our Yesterdays
We Are Alone
Part II: The Planets
The Rings of Earth
Next Door to a Giant
Double Planet
Debris in the Solar System
Seasons of Paradox
More Than One Pluto
Part III: The Stars
What if the Sun were Red? or Blue?
The Vernal Equinox Lies in Virgo
Vega and Deneb Change Places
The Pleiades Star Cluster is as Close as the Hyades
The Great Popcorn Balls
The Milky Way Lies along our Equator
We Are Alone II
Part IV: Homemade Skies
Ring of Rubbish
The Tangled Skein of Celestial Mechanics
A Second Chance
Chicxulub, the Worst Sky of All