Overview: Covers a wide variety of subjects in astrophysics.Discusses two types of rhythms—periodic and waves.Helps students and scholars to learn the topic from a new perspective.This book provides a brief and pedagogic introduction to a variety of topics, with a common motif that they all occur, in some way or other, in “the sky”, and involve some sort of “rhythm”. Sky is not just the inside of a dome; there are many strata, each with its own beauties and mysteries. As we go up, the atmosphere thins out and ends, and we move into the space, into the realms of planets, asteroids, and comets,
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