About this title: Based on the most up-to-date astronomical research, The Essential Cosmic Perspective, Fifth Edition retains all of the features that have made this text so popular with new features helping students learn about the process of science and how to interpret visual data. The textbook package also includes updated supplements to support the book's ...
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"We see often enough T-shirts, posters or post cards of the Milky Way with the exclamatory dot, "You are here!", indicating the relative insignificance of humans in the cosmos. Our life, on Earth, in our solar system, exists within a vast sea of other solar systems. The Bennett text puts this picture, itself, in perspective. Our Milky Way galaxy is part of a local group of galaxies that, in turn, is part of a super cluster of galaxies, in a "known universe" among many, many such super clusters. For perspective, the Milky Way is over 100 billion stars, and the universe contains something like 80 billion galaxies. Bennett et al. surveys this cosmic reality, taking it from its foundations in Newtonian physics through the world of quantum physics. The subject matter, both the totally foreign reality of astronomy and the known or suspected physical laws by which it operates, is intimidating. But these authors understand how to present this material to first-time readers, and in ways to capture and retain their attention. At the end of the text, after reviewing the main theories about the increasingly dark future for the universe, the authors write that "a few creative thinkers speculate about ways in which the universe might undergo rebirth, even after the end of time." That's great stuff for the imagination. This is a great text book."
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