The Visual Guide to Understanding the Universe

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The Visual Guides series answers the most important questions on topics that fascinate everyone through a series of videos and animations: weather, the human body, the Earth, the universe and plants. It provides images of natural phenomena and explanations of fundamental concepts, and features the very latest discoveries in these areas.

Author(s): Nathalie Fredette, Claude Lafleur
Series: The Visual Guides
Publisher: QA International
Year: 2007

Language: English
Pages: 128

Table of contents......Page 5
The solar system......Page 8
The solar system......Page 9
Comparative table of the planets......Page 11
The Sun......Page 13
How the Sun evolved......Page 15
Solar eclipses......Page 17
Planets and satellites......Page 18
Mercury......Page 20
Venus......Page 21
Earth......Page 22
The origin of Earth......Page 23
The magnetosphere......Page 25
Earth’s atmosphere......Page 27
Geographic coordinates......Page 29
Astronomical coordinates......Page 30
The seasons......Page 31
The Moon......Page 33
Lunar phases......Page 35
Lunar eclipses......Page 36
Mars......Page 37
The asteroids......Page 38
Meteorites......Page 39
Comets......Page 41
Jupiter......Page 43
Saturn......Page 44
Uranus......Page 45
Neptune......Page 46
Dwarf planets......Page 47
The stars......Page 48
The origin of stars......Page 50
Multiple stars......Page 51
Classification of stars......Page 52
Low-mass stars......Page 53
Massive stars......Page 55
Black holes......Page 57
Star clusters......Page 59
The constellations......Page 61
The constellations of the Southern Hemisphere......Page 63
The constellations of the Northern Hemisphere......Page 65
The galaxies......Page 68
The galaxies......Page 69
Classification of the galaxies......Page 70
The Milky Way......Page 71
The Local Group......Page 73
Galactic clusters......Page 74
Active galaxies......Page 75
Structure of the Universe......Page 78
The size of the Universe......Page 79
The Big Bang......Page 81
The Universe expands......Page 83
Cosmic background radiation......Page 84
Astronomical observatories......Page 86
The electromagnetic spectrum......Page 87
Telescopes......Page 89
Astronomical observatories......Page 91
A new generation of telescopes......Page 93
The Hubble Space Telescope......Page 95
Radio telescopes......Page 97
Life elsewhere in the Universe......Page 99
Extrasolar planets......Page 101
Space exploration......Page 104
Surrounding Earth......Page 105
Space probes......Page 107
Exploration of the Moon......Page 109
Exploration of Mars......Page 111
Magellan......Page 114
Pioneer 10 and 11......Page 115
Voyager......Page 116
Galileo......Page 117
Cassini and Huygens......Page 118
Ulysses......Page 119
Exploring mini-planets......Page 120
Glossary......Page 121
Index......Page 123
Photo Credits......Page 126