Understanding the Universe an Introduction to Astronomy. 2nd Edition ~ Parts 1-8

by Alex Filippenko

561 pages. Paperback Book only 2nd edition. 2007

264 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2007

About the author

An American astrophysicist and professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley. Filippenko received a Bachelor of Arts in physics from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1979 and a Ph.D. in astronomy from the California Institute of Technology in 1984, where he was a Hertz Foundation Fellow. His research focuses on supernovae and active galaxies at optical, ultraviolet, and near-infrared wavelengths.