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The Universe Around Us is a science book written by English astrophysicist Sir James Jeans, first published in 1929 by the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press.
Contents
edit- Introduction - The Study of Astronomy - Page...1
Chapter
- I Exploring the Sky...14
- II Exploring the Atom...98
- III Exploring in Time...151
- IV Stars...161
- V Carving out the Universe...210
- VI The Solar System...237
- VII Beginnings and Endings...276
- Index...290
There are 32 pages of photographic plates:
Plates
edit- I The Discovery of Pluto - Facing Page...16
- II The Milky Way in the neighbourhood of the Southern Cross...17
- III The Milky Way in the region of p Ophiuchi...18
- IV The Star-cloud in Sagittarius...19
- V Part of the outer regions of the Great Nebula M31 in Andromeda...22
- VI Planetary Nebulae:
- N.G.C. 2022
- N.G.C. 6720 (The Ring Nebula)
- N.G.C. 1501
- N.G.C. 7662...23
- VII The Nebula in Cygnus...24
- VIII The Trifid Nebula M20 in Sagittarius - Following...24
- IX The "Horse's Head" in the Nebula in Orion...24
- X The Great Nebula M31 in Andromeda - Facing...25
- XI The Nebula N.G.C. 891 in Andromeda seen edge-on...26
- XII The Nebula N.G.C. 7217...27
- XIII The Lesser and Greater Magellanic Clouds...30
- XIV The Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules...31
- XV Stellar Spectra...32
- XVI The Doppler Effect in Stellar Spectra...33
- XVII The central region of the Great Nebula M31 in Andromeda...68
- XVIII The Nebula M33 in Triangulum...69
- XIX The Nebula N.G.C. 7331 in Pegasus, and a remote Cluster of faint Nebula - Facing...70
- XX Nebular Spectra....71
- XXI The Nebula N.G.C. 4594 in Virgo...74
- XXII A compact Cluster of faint Nebulae in Pegasus...75
- XXIII The twin Nebulae N.G.C. 4567-8...76
- XXIV The Nebula M81 in Ursa Major...77
- XXV The tracks of a- and b-particles...122
- XXVI Collisions of a-particles with atoms...123
- XXVII The "Whirlpool" Nebula M51 in Canes Venatici...220
- XXVIII A sequence of Nebular Configurations:
- N.G.C. 3379
- N.G.C. 4621
- N.G.C. 3115
- N.G.C. 4594 in Virgo
- N.G.C. 4565 in Berenice's hair...221
- XXIX Two Nebulae (N.G.C. 4395, 4401) suggestive of Tidal Action...244
- XXX The Nebula N.G.C. 7479...245
- XXXI The Nebula M101 in Ursa Major...252
- XXXII Saturn and its System of Rings...253
References
edit- ^ ^Sir James Jeans 1929 (Fourth Edition 1960): The Universe Around Us.
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