Philips Atlas of the Universe

Quasars W e have seen that once we move beyond the Local Group, all the galaxies are racing away from us at ever-increasing spee ...

THE UNIVERSE
▼Gravitational lens effect. The light from a distant quasar passes by an intervening, high-mass galaxy, with the ...

The Expanding Universe ATLAS OF THE UNIVERSE B efore we can make any attempt to trace the history of the universe, we must look ...

THE UNIVERSE
Young galaxy survey. Embedded in this Hubble Space Telescope image of nearby and distant galaxies are 18 young gal ...

The Early Universe E very culture has its own creation myths, and there is of course the account in Genesis which Biblical funda ...

THE UNIVERSE exploding as supernovae and spewing their heavy-element enriched material into space to be used to form new stars. ...

Life in the Universe O f all the problems facing mankind, perhaps the most intriguing is: Can there be life on other worlds? Are ...

THE UNIVERSE All these stars are within 30 light-years of the Sun, and may be regarded as possible targets for future SETI inves ...

The constellations, as depicted by de Vecchi and da Reggio on the ceiling of the Sala del Mappamondo of the Palazzo Farnese. T ...

Whole Sky Maps T he origin of the constellation patterns is not known with any certainty. The ancient Chinese and Egyptians drew ...

STAR MAPS been unceremoniously cut up into its keel (Carina), poop (Puppis) and sails (Vela), because the original constella- ti ...

GEMINI AURIGA PERSEUS LYNX LYNX URSA MINOR URSA MAJOR LEO MINOR URSA MAJOR VENATICICANES BERENICESCOMA LEO VIRGO SERPENSCAPUT LI ...

STAR MAPS to an observer in London, Cologne or Calgary. A minor allowance must be made for atmospheric refraction. Similarly, to ...

Seasonal Charts: South ATLAS OF THE UNIVERSE GEMINI AURIGA PERSEUS LYNX MAJORURSA LEOMINOR CAMELOPARDALIS ANDROMEDA CASSIOPEIA T ...

STAR MAPS 80 ° 60 ° 40 ° 20 ° NORTH SOUTH W E W 5 oS 15 oS 25 oS 35 oS 35 oS 25 oS 15 oS AQUILA^5 oS CORONA AUSTRALIS CYGNUS EQU ...

Ursa Major, Canes Venatici, Leo Minor U rsa Major. There can be few people who cannot recognize the Plough – alternatively nickn ...

STAR MAP 1 Canes Venatici, the Hunting Dogs – Asterion and Chara – were added to the sky by Hevelius in 1690; they are held by t ...

Ursa Minor, Draco U rsa Minor, the Little Bear, is notable chiefly because it contains the north celestial pole, now marked with ...

close to the pole as Polaris is at present. The pole will then pass through Hercules, returning to Draco and again passing close ...

Cassiopeia, Cepheus, Camelopardalis, C assiopeia. The W shape of the constellation Cassiopeia is unmistakable, and is of special ...