Title Far out : a space-time chronicle / Michael Benson

Published New York, N.Y. : Abrams, 2009

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Description 328 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 30 cm Contents Four degrees of separation -- A vocabulary of universal forms -- Nested supernova remnants -- Orion -- The Milky Way -- The North America and Pelican nebulae -- The Cone Nebula and surroundings -- Planetary Nebulae -- Seagulls and Cat's Paws -- A rose in heaven -- The case of the Eagle Nebula -- The Carina Nebula -- The Magellanic Clouds -- The Andromeda Way -- Interacting galaxies -- Nearby spirals -- The whirlpool and antennae galaxies -- Barred spirals -- Triplets, quartets, quintets, and sextets -- Galaxy clusters -- Cosmology and deep time -- About the pictures Summary Presents a collection of photographs depicting various sections of our solar system as well as of distant galaxies beyond the Milky Way taken by observatories around the world Notes Formerly CIP. Uk Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Space photography. SUBJECT Outer space http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85096156 -- Photographs from space. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001247 Outer space http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85096156 -- Pictorial works. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001272 Outer space -- Exploration. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85096159 Genre/Form Photographs. Illustrated works. LC no. 2009929096 ISBN 0810949482 (hbk.) 9780810949485 (hbk.)

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