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William Sheehan and Christopher Conselice, “Galactic Encounters” (Springer, 2014)
William Sheehan and Christopher Conselice, “Galactic Encounters” (Springer, 2014)
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67 minutes
Released:
Jan 12, 2015
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Podcast episode
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Galactic Encounters: Our Majestic and Evolving Star-System, From the Big Bang to Time’s End, by William Sheehan and Christopher Conselice, takes readers on a journey through time, unfolding the long history of investigation into the fuzzy objects–nebulae, galaxies, dust clouds–in the night sky. This book will be of interest to...
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Jan 12, 2015
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