Extragalactic Astronomy: The Universe Beyond Our Galaxy. NASA EP-129; A curriculum project of the American Astronomical Society, prepared with the cooperation of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the National Science Foundation
Washington, DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1976. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. Quarto. vii, [1], 38, [2] pages. Wraps. Illustrations. Glossary. References and Teaching Aids. Front cover scuffed, some wear to cover and spine edges. Rear cover soiled, rear flyleaf & cover creased, top corner of many pages bent. Outside our Galaxy lies the rest of the universe, populated with multitudes of galaxies and other strange denizens; this is the arena with which the young field of extragalactic astronomy concerns itself. This single-topic brochure is for high school teachers of "physical science." Using it, they may introduce their students to a vital area of modern astronomy. Our goal is to provide a sense of "what has been found out there" by extragalactic astronomers. The material is presented in three parts. Section II provides the fundamental content of extragalactic astronomy. In Section III, modern discoveries are delineated in greater detail, while Section IV summarizes the earlier discussions within the structure of the Big-Bang Theory of evolution. Each of the three sections is followed by Student Exercises (activities, laboratory projects, and questions-and-answers). This book is part of a curriculum project of the American Astronomical Society prepared with the cooperation of NASA and the National Science Foundation. The researches of the past 10 years, plus the possibility of even more fundamental discoveries in the next decade, are fascinating laymen and firing the imagination of youth. NASA's inquiries into public interest in the space program show that a major source of such interest is stellar and galactic astronomy. NASA's enabling Act, the Space Act of 1958, lists a primary purpose of NASA, "the expansion of human knowledge of phenomena in the atmosphere and space"; the Act requires of NASA that "it provide for the widest practicable and appropriate dissemination of information concerning its activities and the results of those activities," Condition: Good.
Keywords: Space, NASA, Galaxies, Astronomy, Quasars, Milky Way, Nebulae, Cosmology, X-Ray Sources, Hubble's Law, Redshifts, Extragalactic, American Astronomical Society, Curriculum
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