The Rainbow Sky : An Exploration of Colors in the Solar System and Beyond. 1st ed. 2010

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by Tony Buick

出版情報:

New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2010

著者名:

• Buick, Tony.
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シリーズ名:

The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series ;

ISBN:

9781441910530 [1441910530]    

注記:

The Origin of Light -- Properties of Stars -- Classification of the Stars -- Spectral Techniques -- Deep Sky Objects -- Solar System Colors -- Colors in Earth’s Atmosphere -- Man-made Colors in the Sky -- Star Colors for Fun -- A Few Last Thoughts.
The world is full of color, from the blue ocean and the yellow daffodils and sunflowers in green carpeted meadows to the majestic purple mountains in the distance and brightly hued coral reefs off the edges of tropical coasts. But what is color, exactly? Why do we see things in different colors? Do we all see the same colors? Like the surface of our planet, the sky above us offers us an endless palette of color, a visual feast for the eyes. Besides atmospheric phenomena such as sunsets and rainbows, there are the many varied worlds of the Solar System, which we can spy through our telescopes, with their subtle colorings of beige and blue and green. Faraway star systems have suns that come in shades ranging from red and yellow to blue and white. Scientists even often use "false colors" to enhance the features of images they take of structures, such as the rings of Saturn and Jupiter’s clouds. This book, with its clear explanations of what makes the sky such a colorful place and in its great wealth of pictures,

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