Cosmic Dawn: The Search for the First Stars and Galaxies (Astronomers' Universe) - Softcover

Rhee, George

Softcover

ISBN 10: 146147812X ISBN 13: 9781461478126

Verlag: Springer, 2013

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Teaches the reader what the first stars and galaxies actually look like and how they could form

Provides the latest observational findings on the search for the first stars and galaxies

Explains the aims and goals of next-generation telescopes for astronomy

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George Rhee is Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Nevada. He published 37 peer reviewed articles and is a co-author of a Nature article published in 2010. The author is an active researcher in astronomy but also an experienced teacher and has given many science talks in his career for general audiences.

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The visible universe consists of stars and galaxies. One of the challenges of astronomy is to understand how galaxies and stars first came into existence over thirteen billion years ago. This book tells the story of our quest to solve this problem. Four hundred years after Galileo used his telescope to discover the moons of Jupiter, we are using new telescopes and instruments to search for the first galaxies to form after the Big Bang. This book brings the reader to the current frontier of this subject and lays out some of the exciting developments we can expect in the years to come.

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• Verlag: Springer
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 146147812X
• ISBN 13: 9781461478126
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 292
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