From the Earth to the Universe. General Astronomy: Theoretical and Practical

From the Earth to the Universe. General Astronomy: Theoretical and Practical

Authors: DAVID GALADI and JORDI GUTIÉRREZ with photographs by VICENT PERIS
Publisher: AKAL
Publication date: 21/3/2022

This work is a comprehensive, complete and up-to-date monograph for beginner and advanced amateur astronomers. It is also a valuable source of information for secondary school teachers and serves as a textbook for university students. Its authors are two professional astronomers who have captured in this extensive, rigorous and detailed work all the relevant issues of classical and modern astronomy.

This is the 2nd revised edition of their bestseller GENERAL ASTRONOMY: THEORY AND PRACTICE but with updated, revised and extended content in line with new technologies and recent discoveries.

De la Tierra al universo, the definitive work on astronomy in Spanish, is an essential reference for beginners and advanced amateurs and is a rich source of information for non-university teachers. It will also prove valuable as a university textbook for introductory astronomy courses in science degrees, or in general astronomy courses for students in other disciplines.

ABOUT DAVID GALADÍ-ENRÍQUEZ (WRITER)
DavidGaladí-Enríquez (Córdoba, Spain, 1969) has been an active observer of the firmament since he was very young. He studied physics at the Universities of Granada and Barcelona, where he received his PhD in astrophysics in 1998. He has worked as a high school teacher, university professor in ...

ABOUT JORDI GUTIÉRREZ CABELLO (WRITER)
Jordi Gutiérrez Cabello graduated in Physics at the University of Barcelona and obtained his PhD in Astrophysics at the same university. He was a member of the Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya and is currently a teaching and research staff at the Escola d'Enginyeria de Telec...

CONTENTS

Prologue

Presentation

PART I. HISTORY

1. History of Astronomy

PART II. THE FIRMAMENT

2. The firmament with the naked eye

3. Celestial coordinates

4. Earth's motions

5. The names of the sky

PART III. INSTRUMENTATION AND OBSERVATIONAL TECHNIQUES

6. Telescopes

7. Practical use of the telescope

8. Introduction to observational techniques

9. The quality of the sky

10. Astronomy in other spectral regions

PART IV. THE SOLAR SYSTEM

11. The Solar System: general information

12. Mercury

13. Venus

14. Earth

15. The Moon

16. Mars

17. Jupiter

18. The Jovian system

19. Saturn

20. The Saturn system

21. Uranus

22 Neptune

23. Trans-Neptunian objects

24. Asteroids

25. Comets

26. Meteoroids, meteors and meteorites

PART V. THE STARS

27. Principles of stellar physics

28. Observation of the stars

29. Classification of stars

30. Star formation

31. Stellar evolution. Low mass stars

32. Stellar evolution. Massive stars

33. The Sun and the heliosphere

34. Multiple stars

35. Variable stars

36. Extrasolar planetary systems

PART VI. THE GALAXY

37. Structure of the Galaxy

38. Stellar populations and the interstellar medium

39. Stellar groupings

PART VII. THE EXTRAGALACTIC UNIVERSE AND COSMOLOGY

40. The extragalactic systems

41. Structure of the large-scale universe

42. The Expanding Universe

43. The future of the universe

44. Astrobiology

BOOK DATA

Height x width: 25.5x19.8cm.
No. of pages: 936 pp.
Publisher: AKAL
Language: Spanish
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9788446051459
Year of edition: 2022

From the Earth to the Universe. General Astronomy: Theoretical and Practical