A brief welcome to the universe : a pocket-sized tour / / Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, and J. Richard Gott
| A brief welcome to the universe : a pocket-sized tour / / Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, and J. Richard Gott |
| Autore | Tyson Neil deGrasse |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, New Jersey : , : Princeton University Press, , [2021] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (247 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 523.1 |
| Soggetto topico |
Astrophysics
Cosmology |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Accelerating expansion of the universe
Accretion (astrophysics) Alpha particle Andromeda Galaxy Angular diameter Astrobiology Astrophysics Atomic nucleus Barred spiral galaxy Big Bang Calculation Chemical element Chronology of the universe Circumference Copernican principle Cosmic Background Explorer Cosmic microwave background Cosmic string Cosmogony Dark energy De Sitter space Deuterium Dimension Earth Einstein field equations Elementary particle Elliptic orbit Energy density Event horizon Exoplanet Extraterrestrial life Galactic Center Galactic year Galaxy cluster Googol Gravitational wave Gravity Hawking radiation Hubble Space Telescope Hubble's law Inflation (cosmology) Interstellar medium Irregular galaxy Jim Peebles Jupiter Kepler (spacecraft) Kuiper belt Light-year Longevity Luminosity Main sequence Measurement Metric expansion of space Milky Way Molecule Neutron star Neutron Newton's law of universal gravitation Nitrogen Nuclear fusion Nuclear reaction Observable universe Orion Nebula Photon Physicist Planck (spacecraft) Planetary habitability Planetary nebula Positron Prediction Pressure Quantity Quantum tunnelling Quasar Real Humans Red giant Result Satellite galaxy Saturn Shape of the universe Solar System Solar mass Spacecraft Spiral galaxy Star Supernova Temperature The Astrophysical Journal The Pluto Files Thermal radiation Universe Today Universe Uranus Vacuum energy Vacuum state Wavelength Weakly interacting massive particles Welcome to the Universe White dwarf Year |
| ISBN | 0-691-22361-0 |
| Classificazione | SCI005000SCI055000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- A Note to the Reader -- 1 Size and Scale of the Universe -- 2 Pluto's Place in the Solar System -- 3 The Lives and Deaths of Stars -- 4 The Search for Life in the Galaxy -- 5 Our Milky Way and Its Supermassive Black Hole -- 6 Galaxies, the Expanding Universe, and the Big Bang -- 7 Inflation and the Multiverse -- 8 Our Future in the Universe -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910554222803321 |
Tyson Neil deGrasse
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| Princeton, New Jersey : , : Princeton University Press, , [2021] | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The Zoom : Drama at the Touch of a Lever / / Nick Hall
| The Zoom : Drama at the Touch of a Lever / / Nick Hall |
| Autore | Hall Nick |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Brunswick, NJ : , : Rutgers University Press, , [2018] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (1 PDF (vii, 213 pages) :) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 790.2 |
| Collana | Techniques of the Moving Image |
| Soggetto topico |
Zoom lens photography - History
Zoom lenses - History Cinematography - Special effects - History |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Alfred Hitchcock
American Michael Snow Vertigo Wavelength film television zoom lens zoom |
| ISBN |
0-8135-8722-0
0-8135-8723-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Drama at the Touch of a Lever -- 3. Take Me Out to the Ball Game -- 4. Unlimited Horizons -- 5. Creepers And Neck-Snappers -- 6. The Zoom Boom -- 7. Contemporary Zooms -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910795033203321 |
Hall Nick
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| New Brunswick, NJ : , : Rutgers University Press, , [2018] | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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