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Horizons: Exploring the Universe

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Horizons: Exploring the Universe
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Hypernovae, Gamma Rays and Black Holes
Author
Original titleIce Volcanoes on a Frozen Moon
Illustrator
Cover artistIrene Morris (designer)

Precision Graphics:
Enceladus (large background image): By artist David Seal, NASA.
Pluto: Artist's concept of Kuiper Belt Object 2003
UB313: NASA, ESA, and A. Schaller (for STScI).
Hypernovae: Colliding binary neutron stars: NASA/D. Berry.

First Galaxies: Milky Way: © Myron Jay Dorf/Corbis
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SubjectAstronomy
GenreNon-fiction, textbook
PublisherBrooks Cole/ Cengage Learning
Publication date
1993
Media typePrint (Paperback)
Pages516
ISBN0-495-11963-6 Search this book on .
OCLC226106230

Horizons: Exploring the Universe is an astronomy textbook that was written by Michael A. Seeds and Dana E. Backman. It is in its 14th edition (as of 2019), and is used in some colleges as a guidebook for introductory astronomy classes. It covers all major ideas in astronomy, from the apparent magnitude scale, to the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation, to gamma ray bursts.


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