Our universe : the thrill of extragalactic exploration as told by leading experts /
The Universe in which we live is unimaginably vast and ancient, with countless star-systems, galaxies and extraordinary phenomena as different and strange as blackholes, dark-matter, gamma-ray bursts and nearly-invisible galaxies. From our earliest days humankind has looked to these heavens in awe....
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge UK ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2001.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Mapmaker, mapmaker make me a map: probing the universe's large-scale structure / John Huchra
- Looking back in time: searching for the most distant galaxies / Esther Hu
- So we've lost the mission? The Big Bang and the cosmic background explorer / John Mather
- Computational adventures in cosmology / Nick Gnedin
- The search for very massive black holes / Doug Richstone
- Gamma-ray bursts: the most spectacular fireworks / Bohdan Paczyński
- Clusters of galaxies and the fate of the universe (or how to be a cosmologist without really trying) / Megan Donahue
- Dark matter and the discovery of galactic halos / Jeremiah Ostriker
- Hunting the elusive invisible galaxy / Gregory Bothun.