The Growth of Astrophysical Understanding

Physics Today

Volumn 56, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 38-43

  Harwit, Martin ^a  

^a Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museumin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER EFFECT; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; GAMMA RAYS; ORBITS; PLANETS; TELESCOPES;

MAGNETIC STARS; THERMAL MOTION;

ASTRONOMY;

EID: 0344036280     PISSN: 00319228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1634532     Document Type: Article

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