How big is the Milky Way Galaxy? Where is our Earth located among its billions of stars? People have been studying galaxies for hundreds of years. We have learned a lot–but there is still much to discover. Find out more about stars, black holes, dark matter, and other things that make up galaxies! Galaxies is part of the Super Science Facts series that engages readers in grades 5 to 12 with fun science facts and colorful images on every page to support comprehension. The series covers Physical Science, Life Science and Social Sciences in individual sets. The minimal-text format (1,700 to 2,000 words per book) introduces content vocabulary defined in context and repeated in a glossary.
This extensively illustrated book presents the astrophysics of galaxies since their beginnings in the early Universe.
This book presents 28 papers based on invited review talks and a panel discussion on `The Nature of High Redshift Objects'.
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"Tour the most dazzling, fascinating, and unusual galaxies in the universe with the Editor-in-Chief of Astronomy as your personal guide, featuring jaw-dropping illustrations and full-color photography from the magazine's archives, much of ...
Identifies the nature, locations, movements, and different categories of galaxies, examining the Milky Way and other known examples.
Tour the incredible scope of the cosmos as we know it with the editor in chief of Astronomy, featuring jaw-dropping illustrations and full-color photography from the magazine’s archives, much of it never before published. “The natural ...
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Are there other galaxies out there? How do we know that they exist? Can we expect an alien invasion? In this fascinating book, readers will learn about black holes, gigantic telescopes, and space exploration.
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