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Measuring the universe : our historic quest to chart the horizons of space and time / by Ferguson, Kitty.(CARDINAL)361978;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-322) and index.1300L
Subjects: Cosmology.; Cosmological distances.; Measurement.;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 8
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Your place in the universe / by Chin, Jason,1978-author.(CARDINAL)355846;
Includes bibliographical references (page 40)."A non-fiction introduction to the massive scale of the known universe."--Grades K-1.Ages 4-8.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Illustrated works.; Instructional and educational works.; Picture books.; Astronomy; Cosmological distances; Distances;
Available copies: 61 / Total copies: 69
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Welcome to the universe in 3D : a visual tour / by Tyson, Neil deGrasse,author.(CARDINAL)339562; Gott, J. Richard,author.(CARDINAL)702723; Strauss, Michael Abram,author.(CARDINAL)682034; Vanderbei, Robert J.,author.(CARDINAL)638863;
Includes bibliographical references and index."If you go out and simply look up, everything--from the Moon to the planets to the stars to the band of the Milky Way--appears to be pasted on the two-dimensional surface of the dome of the sky. Yet, the story of astronomy as a science is how, over time, astronomers have discovered the cosmos in depth. It is the story of the measurement of position and distance, and how our 2D view of the sky above us evolved into a more sophisticated comprehension of the real 3D depths of space. The distances to the stars were first measured using the parallax effect--that is, by comparing the view from opposite sides of the Earth's orbit. This is the same effect that your brain uses (comparing the views from your left and right eyes) to effortlessly give you depth perception. In this book, the authors present the most spectacular stereo images available in astronomy. (Stereo images are pairs of images of the same object, taken 6 months apart--which, as the Earth turns, means viewed from opposite sides of the Earth's orbit.) Each pair of stereo images, when viewed with a special stereo viewer (to be contained in the book itself), portrays the object in 3D. Each striking 3D picture is accompanied by a caption on the facing page, which tells the story and significance of the image in a mini-essay and points out its interesting features. Rather than a random assortment of astronomical wonders, the pictures are arranged in order of their distance from Earth. The book starts out with the Moon and moves outward through planets, stars, and galaxies, finally reaching the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB), the most distant thing we can see. The distances of objects are given in light travel times--from 1.3 light-seconds for the Moon to 13.8 billion light-years for the CMB. These distances, along with highlights of how each object was discovered and measured by astronomers, provide a framework and narrative thread for the book, which is carried forward from one caption to the next. At each stage of this outward journey, the reader will learn new and surprising facts about fascinating objects in the depths of space. The book also features an introductory Preface that outlines the story of the discovery of the universe in depth, describes the parallax effect, and provides the background and context for the forthcoming visual tour of the observable universe in 3D"--
Subjects: Handbooks and manuals.; Astronomy; Cosmological distances.; Cosmology.; Parallax.; Three-dimensional imaging in astronomy.;
Available copies: 14 / Total copies: 14
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How far is a star? / by Rosen, Sidney.(CARDINAL)175230; Lindberg, Dean,ill.(CARDINAL)363572;
Explains the vast distances in space and describes different types of stars in the universe using a question-and-answer format.
Subjects: Cosmological distances; Stars; Astronomy; Stars; Astronomy; Questions and answers.;
© c1992., Carolrhoda Books,
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Tu lugar en el universo / by Chin, Jason,1978-author,illustrator.; Aliaga Muñoz, David,translator.;
Includes bibliographical references.Un niño de ocho años, de media, es cinco veces más alto que este libro, pero sólo la mitad de alto que un avestruz. Y un avestruz es la mitad de alto que una jirafa, que solamente tiene la vigésima parte de la altura de una secuoya roja. ¿Y cómo de altas son las secuoyas en comparación con los grandes rascacielos? ¿Y con el monte Everest? ¿Y en relación con los planetas, estrellas, galaxias y el universo? El galardonado autor Jason Chin ha vuelto a dar con la manera de hacer accesible y comprensible un tema complejo (el tamaño, la escala e incluso distancias inimaginables) para lectores de todas las edades. Empezando por cosas pequeñas y avanzando hacia lo astronómico, este libro te permitirá encontrar el lugar que ocupas en el universo.3-6Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Instructional and educational works.; Astronomy; Cosmological distances; Distances; Spanish language materials.; Astronomía; Distancias; Física cósmica;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Modern cosmological observations and problems / by Bothun, Greg.(CARDINAL)419175;
Includes bibliographical references and index.pt.1. Cosmological model building. pt.2. The extragalactic distance scale. pt.3. Structure in the universe : galaxies, clusters, superclusters, walls and voids. pt.4. Dark matter in the universe. pt.5. Structure formation scenarios and observational constraints. pt.6. The distribution of baryons in the universe. pt.7. Concluding remarks and future prospects.
Subjects: Cosmology.; Dark matter (Astronomy);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Becoming animal : an earthly cosmology / by Abram, David,1957-(CARDINAL)389340;
Includes bibliographical references (page 315).A startling exploration of our human entanglement with the rest of nature. As the climate veers toward catastrophe, the innumerable losses cascading through the biosphere make vividly evident the need for a metamorphosis in our relation to the living land. For too long we've inured ourselves to the wild intelligence of our flesh, taking our primary truths from technologies that hold the living world at a distance. This book subverts that distance, drawing readers ever deeper into their animal senses in order to explore, from within, the elemental kinship between the body and the breathing Earth. Abram shows that from the awakened perspective of the human animal, awareness (or mind) is not an exclusive possession of our species but a lucid quality of the biosphere itself--a quality in which we, along with the oaks and the spiders, steadily participate.--From publisher description.
Subjects: Biosphere.; Human ecology.; Cosmology.; Perception.; Nature; Human beings; Anthropology;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Manh(a)ttan [videorecording] : season one / by Brosnahan, Rachelactor.(CARDINAL)789449; Chernus, Michaelactor.(CARDINAL)347767; Denham, Christopheractor.; Schlamme, Thomasdirector.;
You always hurt the one you love -- The prisoner's dilemma -- The hive -- Last reasoning of kings -- A new approach to nuclear cosmology -- Acceptable limits -- The new world -- The second coming -- Spooky action at a distance -- The understudy -- Tangier -- The gun model -- Perestroika.Rachel Brosnahan, Michael Chernus, Christopher Denham, Alexia Fast, Katja Herbers, John Benjamin Hickey, Harry Lloyd, Daniel Stern, Olivia Williams, Ashley Zukerman.Set against the backdrop of the greatest race against time in the history of science; the mission to build the world's first atomic bomb in Los Alamos, New Mexico. The series follows the project's brilliant but flawed scientists and their families as they attempt to coexist in a world where secrets and lies infiltrate every aspect of their lives.TV rating: Not rated.
Subjects: Fiction television programs.; Historical television programs.; Television series.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Atomic bomb; Los Almos National Laboratory; Manhattan Project (U.S.); Scientists;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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Cosmology [videorecording] : the history and nature of our universe. by Whittle, Mark.(CARDINAL)598680; Teaching Company.(CARDINAL)349444;
Course guidebook Includes bibliographical references.Disc 1. Lecture 1:The journey ahead ; Lecture 2: Denizens of the universe ; Lecture 3: Overall cosmic properties ; Lecture 4: The stuff of the universe ; Lecture 5: The sweep of cosmic history ; Lecture 6: Measuring distances -- Disc 2. Lecture 7: Expansion and age ; Lecture 8: Distances, appearances, and horizons ; Lecture 9: Dark matter and dark energy--96%! ; Lecture 11: Cosmic expansion--keeping track of energy ; Lecture 12: Cosmic acceleration--falling outward. Disc 3. Lecture 13: The cosmic microwave background ; Lecture 14: Conditions during the first million years ; Lecture 15: Primordial sound--big bang acoustics ; Lecture 16: Using sound as cosmic diagnostic ; Lecture 17: Primordial roughness--seeding structure ; Lecture 18: The Dark Age--from sound to the first stars -- Disc 4. Lecture 19: Infant galaxies ; Lecture 20: From child to maturity--galaxy evolution ; Lecture 21: Giant Black Holes--construction and carnage ; Lecture 22: The galaxy web--a relic of primordial sound ; Lecture 23: Atom factories--stellar interiors ; Lecture 24: Understanding element abundances -- Disc 5. Lecture 25: Light elements--made in the Big Bang ; Lecture 26: Putting it together--the Concordance Model Lecture 27: Physics at ultrahigh temperatures ; Lecture 28: Back to a microsecond--the particle cascade ; Lecture 29: Back to the GUT--matter and forces emerge ; Lecture 30: Puzzling problems remain -- Disc 6. Lecture 31: Inflation provides the solution ; Lecture 32: The quantum origin of all structure ; Lecture 33: Inflation's stunning creativity ; Lecture 34: Fine tuning and anthropic arguments ; Lecture 35: What's next for cosmology? ; Lecture 36: A comprehensible universe?Lecturer: Professor Mark Whittle, University of Virginia.In his 36 lectures, professor Mark Whittle talks on knowledge of astronomy and our universe.DVD.
Subjects: Educational films.; Filmed lectures.; Cosmology.; Cosmology.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Cosmology 101 / by Larsen, Kristine M.,1963-(CARDINAL)484010;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-181) and index.
Subjects: Cosmology;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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