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Extreme cosmos
The universe is all about extremes. Space has a temperature 270°C below freezing. Stars die in catastrophic supernova explosions a billion times brighter than the Sun. A black hole can generate 10 million trillion volts of electricity. And hypergiants are stars 2 billion kilometres across, larger th...
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2011
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| Acceso en línea: | http://cds.cern.ch/record/1613711 |
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| author | Gaensler, Bryan |
| author_facet | Gaensler, Bryan |
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| collection | CERN |
| description | The universe is all about extremes. Space has a temperature 270°C below freezing. Stars die in catastrophic supernova explosions a billion times brighter than the Sun. A black hole can generate 10 million trillion volts of electricity. And hypergiants are stars 2 billion kilometres across, larger than the orbit of Jupiter. Extreme Cosmos provides a stunning new view of the way the Universe works, seen through the lens of extremes: the fastest, hottest, heaviest, brightest, oldest, densest and even the loudest. This is an astronomy book that not only offers amazing facts and figures but also re |
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| institution | Organización Europea para la Investigación Nuclear |
| language | eng |
| publishDate | 2011 |
| publisher | NewSouth |
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| spelling | cern-16137112021-04-21T22:10:59Zhttp://cds.cern.ch/record/1613711engGaensler, BryanExtreme cosmosAstrophysics and AstronomyThe universe is all about extremes. Space has a temperature 270°C below freezing. Stars die in catastrophic supernova explosions a billion times brighter than the Sun. A black hole can generate 10 million trillion volts of electricity. And hypergiants are stars 2 billion kilometres across, larger than the orbit of Jupiter. Extreme Cosmos provides a stunning new view of the way the Universe works, seen through the lens of extremes: the fastest, hottest, heaviest, brightest, oldest, densest and even the loudest. This is an astronomy book that not only offers amazing facts and figures but also reNewSouthoai:cds.cern.ch:16137112011 |
| spellingShingle | Astrophysics and Astronomy Gaensler, Bryan Extreme cosmos |
| title | Extreme cosmos |
| title_full | Extreme cosmos |
| title_fullStr | Extreme cosmos |
| title_full_unstemmed | Extreme cosmos |
| title_short | Extreme cosmos |
| title_sort | extreme cosmos |
| topic | Astrophysics and Astronomy |
| url | http://cds.cern.ch/record/1613711 |
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