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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....

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Други автори: Stern, Alan, 1957-
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Cambridge UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
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Подобни документи: Print version:: Our universe.
Съдържание:
  • 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 Paczynski
  • 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.