John Beckman is Emeritus Research Professor at the Astrophysics Institute of the Canaries. His research speciality is the dynamics and structure of galaxies. He has published over 400 articles in professional international journals, and contributed a similar number of articles to specialist conferences. He has given hundreds of talks to popular audiences on astronomical topics, has prepared a short documentary series about astronomy for Spanish Television, and previously was a regular invitee to the BBC´s popular astronomy programme “The Sky at Night”.
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Galaxies in an Accelerating Universe
John Etienne Beckman
This book is aimed at the general reader who has an interest in knowing how modern astronomy is moving towards a steadily increasing understanding of galaxies. It is written from the point of view of the observational astrophysicist, stressing how observations have consistently led the way in opening new horizons.We first take a brief historical look at how the Milky Way was seen until the development of large telescopes, showing...
