Richard M. West: Understanding the Universe

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There is hardly any field of human endeavour which is more fundamental than the study of our surroundings. We have always wanted to learn what was behind our horizon, beyond the next mountain, on the other side of the ocean, on the next planet, at the end of the Universe. We have come a long way since our early ancestors gazed upon the sky in amazement. Giant optical and radio telescopes now allow us to "see" the early epochs of the Universe, revealing phenomena beyond our comprehension. Spacecrafts with on-board astronomical instrumentation circle the Earth and fly to the limits of the Solar System, providing invaluable new information about nearby and distant objects. Many people have the intuitive feeling that it is "easier and better" to study the Universe from above the Earth's atmosphere. However, this is only partially true in as much as electromagnetic radiation of certain wavelengths (e.g. X-rays) does not penetrate the atmosphere and can only be studied from balloons and space crafts ¿ The advent of space-borne astronomy has not made ground-based observations obsolete - on the contrary, it is only thanks to the combination of the two that we have now a vastly more comprehensive picture of the Universe than just a few decades ago.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I The Atmosphere of the Sun and the Stars (L'Atmosphère du Soleil et des Etoiles).- II Solar-Terrestrial Influence.- III The Size, Shape and Temperature of the Stars.- IV X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Astronomy.- V Space Science and Cosmology.- VI Concluding Remarks.- About UNISPACE-82.- About the International Astronomical Union.- The Chairman and the Speakers.- Astronomical and Physical Constants.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2011
Fachbereich:	Astronomie
Genre:	Importe , Physik
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	xii 250 S.
ISBN-13:	9789400972131
ISBN-10:	940097213X
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Redaktion:	West, Richard M.
Herausgeber:	Richard M West
Auflage:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st edition 1983
Hersteller:	Springer Netherland Springer Netherlands
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße:	244 x 170 x 15 mm
Von/Mit:	Richard M. West
Erscheinungsdatum:	08.10.2011
Gewicht:	0,462 kg

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