Linda Schweizer

Cosmic Odyssey (eBook, ePUB)

How Intrepid Astronomers at Palomar Observatory Changed our View of the Universe

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

How pioneering scientists at Palomar Observatory make dazzling discoveries of astronomical phenomena beyond human experience and imagination. Ever since 1936, pioneering scientists at Palomar Observatory in Southern California have pushed against the boundaries of the known universe, making a series of dazzling discoveries that changed our view of the cosmos: quasars, colliding galaxies, supermassive black holes, brown dwarfs, supernovae, dark matter, the never-ending expansion of the universe, and much more. In Cosmic Odyssey, astronomer Linda Schweizer tells the story of the men and women at Palomar and their efforts to decipher the vast energies and mysterious processes that govern our universe.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780262359658
• Artikelnr.: 58743541

Autorenporträt

Linda Schweizer holds a PhD in astronomy from the University of California, Berkeley. She has observed at many observatories, published in astronomical journals, and taught science writing and was a Visiting Scholar at the California Institute of Technology, all while raising four daughters.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter   1: The Promise
Chapter   2: Plumbing the Depths of the Universe
Chapter   3: Unraveling the Mysteries of Stellar Evolution
Chapter   4: Milky Way Archaeology
Chapter   5: Galactic Violence: Collisions and Mergers
Chapter   6: Quasars: Wolves in Sheep's Clothing
Chapter   7: Piercing the Galactic "Smog"
Chapter   8: Starbursts, Superwinds, and Supermassive Black Holes
Chapter   9: Probing the Gaseous Universe
Chapter 10: From Ghosts to Galaxies: The Emergence of Structure
Chapter 11: Solar System Shuffle
Chapter 12: Astronomical Exotica: New Frontiers