Understanding the Universe

Name: Understanding the Universe
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The Impact of Space Astronomy

Автор: Richard M. West

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There is hardly any field of human endeavour which is more fundamental than the study of our surroun...

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Автор

Richard M. West

Език

Английски език

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Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2011

страници

250

EAN

9789400972131

ISBN

940097213X

Enbook ID

02177286

Издател

Springer

Теглоt

464

Размери

244 x 170 x 20

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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.

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