Horizons: Exploring the Universe

Horizons: Exploring the Universe
	Hypernovae, Gamma Rays and Black Holes
Author	Michael A. Seeds
Original title	Ice Volcanoes on a Frozen Moon
Cover artist	Irene Morris (designer); Precision Graphics:; Enceladus (large background image): By artist David Seal, NASA.; Pluto: Artist's concept of Kuiper Belt Object 2003; UB313: NASA, ESA, and A. Schaller (for STScI).; Hypernovae: Colliding binary neutron stars: NASA/D. Berry.; First Galaxies: Milky Way: © Myron Jay Dorf/Corbis
Country	United States
Language	English
Subject	Astronomy
Genre	Non-fiction, textbook
Publisher	Brooks Cole/ Cengage Learning
Publication date	1993
Media type	Print (Paperback)
Pages	516
ISBN	0-495-11963-6
OCLC	226106230

Horizons: Exploring the Universe is an astronomy textbook that was written by Michael A. Seeds and Dana E. Backman. It is in its 14th edition (as of 2019), and is used in some colleges as a guide book for introductory astronomy classes. It covers all major ideas in astronomy, from the apparent magnitude scale, to the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation, to gamma ray bursts.

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