Coming of Age in the Milky WayTwelve years in the making and impeccably researched, Coming of Age in the Milky Way chronicles the awakening of the human species to the vastness of our cosmos and shows how each time the model of the universe has been altered, tremors have rumbled through such realms as theology and politics. Illustrated. |
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... variable stars - the Cepheid variables - were to provide astronomy with a means of measuring distances across interstellar space and even intergalactic . Thanks to the Cepheids , Shapley was to earn a place in history as the first human ...
... variable stars - the Cepheid variables - were to provide astronomy with a means of measuring distances across interstellar space and even intergalactic . Thanks to the Cepheids , Shapley was to earn a place in history as the first human ...
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... Cepheids with great enthusiasm . Using the big sixty - inch Mount Wilson telescope , he photographed globular star clusters — spec- tacular assemblages of hundreds of thousands to millions of stars -identified Cepheid variable stars in ...
... Cepheids with great enthusiasm . Using the big sixty - inch Mount Wilson telescope , he photographed globular star clusters — spec- tacular assemblages of hundreds of thousands to millions of stars -identified Cepheid variable stars in ...
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... Cepheid variable stars provided the needed mileposts . Cepheids are bright enough to be discernible across intergalactic distances . Using the new one - hundred - inch telescope at Mount Wilson , Hubble pho- tographed the spirals again ...
... Cepheid variable stars provided the needed mileposts . Cepheids are bright enough to be discernible across intergalactic distances . Using the new one - hundred - inch telescope at Mount Wilson , Hubble pho- tographed the spirals again ...
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