Galactic Astronomy
by James Binney, Michael Merrifield
796 pages· 1998· ISBN 9780691025650
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GALACTIC ASTRONOMY introduces all astronomical concepts necessary to understand the properties of galaxies, including coordinate systems, magnitudes and colors, the phenomenology of stars, the theory of stellar and chemical evolution, and the measurement of astronomical distances. 100 photos.
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