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The Universe Around Us is a science book written by English astrophysicist Sir James Jeans, first published in 1929 by the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press.

Contents

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  • Introduction - The Study of Astronomy - Page...1

Chapter

  • I Exploring the Sky...14
  • II Exploring the Atom...98
  • III Exploring in Time...151
  • IV Stars...161
  • V Carving out the Universe...210
  • VI The Solar System...237
  • VII Beginnings and Endings...276
  • Index...290

There are 32 pages of photographic plates:

Plates

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  • I The Discovery of Pluto - Facing Page...16
  • II The Milky Way in the neighbourhood of the Southern Cross...17
  • III The Milky Way in the region of p Ophiuchi...18
  • IV The Star-cloud in Sagittarius...19
  • V Part of the outer regions of the Great Nebula M31 in Andromeda...22
  • VI Planetary Nebulae:
  1. N.G.C. 2022
  2. N.G.C. 6720 (The Ring Nebula)
  3. N.G.C. 1501
  4. N.G.C. 7662...23
  • VII The Nebula in Cygnus...24
  • VIII The Trifid Nebula M20 in Sagittarius - Following...24
  • IX The "Horse's Head" in the Nebula in Orion...24
  • X The Great Nebula M31 in Andromeda - Facing...25
  • XI The Nebula N.G.C. 891 in Andromeda seen edge-on...26
  • XII The Nebula N.G.C. 7217...27
  • XIII The Lesser and Greater Magellanic Clouds...30
  • XIV The Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules...31
  • XV Stellar Spectra...32
  • XVI The Doppler Effect in Stellar Spectra...33
  • XVII The central region of the Great Nebula M31 in Andromeda...68
  • XVIII The Nebula M33 in Triangulum...69
  • XIX The Nebula N.G.C. 7331 in Pegasus, and a remote Cluster of faint Nebula - Facing...70
  • XX Nebular Spectra....71
  • XXI The Nebula N.G.C. 4594 in Virgo...74
  • XXII A compact Cluster of faint Nebulae in Pegasus...75
  • XXIII The twin Nebulae N.G.C. 4567-8...76
  • XXIV The Nebula M81 in Ursa Major...77
  • XXV The tracks of a- and b-particles...122
  • XXVI Collisions of a-particles with atoms...123
  • XXVII The "Whirlpool" Nebula M51 in Canes Venatici...220
  • XXVIII A sequence of Nebular Configurations:
  1. N.G.C. 3379
  2. N.G.C. 4621
  3. N.G.C. 3115
  4. N.G.C. 4594 in Virgo
  5. N.G.C. 4565 in Berenice's hair...221
  • XXIX Two Nebulae (N.G.C. 4395, 4401) suggestive of Tidal Action...244
  • XXX The Nebula N.G.C. 7479...245
  • XXXI The Nebula M101 in Ursa Major...252
  • XXXII Saturn and its System of Rings...253

References

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  1. ^ ^Sir James Jeans 1929 (Fourth Edition 1960): The Universe Around Us.
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Category:1929 books Category:English non-fiction literature

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