The three big bangs : comet crashes, exploding stars, and the creation of the universe / Philip M. Dauber, Richard A. Muller.
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TextPublication details: Reading, Mass. : Perseus Books, c1996.Description: viii, 207 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 21 cmISBN: - 0201407523
- 0201154951 (pbk.)
- QB991.B54 D38 1996
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-195) and index.
Three big bangs -- Comet crashes: Jupiter crash -- Target earth -- Controversy -- Smoking gun -- Asteroids -- Comets -- Nemesis and mass extinctions -- Spaceguard -- Impacts and evolution -- Exploding stars: New star -- Stars are us -- Secret lives and violent deaths of stars -- Peculiar progeny of a supernova -- Supernova hunters -- Creation of the universe: Creation -- Fleeing galaxies -- Microwaves in the sky -- Snapshot of creation -- Of matter and antimatter -- Universes finite and infinite -- Cosmological candles -- Three big bangs revisited.Three big bangs -- Comet crashes: Jupiter crash -- Target earth -- Controversy -- Smoking gun -- Asteroids -- Comets -- Nemesis and mass extinctions -- Spaceguard -- Impacts and evolution -- Exploding stars: New star -- Stars are us -- Secret lives and violent deaths of stars -- Peculiar progeny of a supernova -- Supernova hunters -- Creation of the universe: Creation -- Fleeing galaxies -- Microwaves in the sky -- Snapshot of creation -- Of matter and antimatter -- Universes finite and infinite -- Cosmological candles -- Three big bangs revisited.
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