Universe: Stars and Galaxies
- ISBN-10
- 1429240156
- ISBN-13
- 9781429240154
- Series
- Universe
- Category
- Science
- Pages
- 800
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010-01-06
- Publisher
- W. H. Freeman
- Authors
- Roger Freedman, William J. Kaufmann
Description
Universe: Stars and Galaxies, Fourth Edition, contains chapters from the following sections of Freedman, Kaufmann and Geller's Universe, Ninth Edition:Introducing AstronomyStars and Stellar EvolutionGalaxies and Cosmology
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