Eales Origins

How the Planets, Stars, Galaxies, and the Universe Began
2007
ISBN: 978-1-84628-700-8
Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 284 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Astronomers' Universe

This book looks at answers to the biggest questions in astronomy – the questions of how the planets, stars, galaxies and the universe were formed. Over the last decade, a revolution in observational astronomy has produced possible answers to three of these questions. This book describes this revolution. The one question for which we still do not have an answer is the question of the origin of the universe. In the final chapter, the author looks at the connection between science and philosophy and shows how new scientific results have laid the groundwork for the first serious scientific studies of the origin of the universe.

Zielgruppe

Popular/general

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eales, Steve

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Origins Part 1: Planets Chapter 1: Rocks Chapter 2: Exoplanets Chapter 3: The Day the Solar System Lost a Planet Origins Part 2: Stars Chapter 4: Ends Chapter 5: Beginnings Origins Part 3: Galaxies Chapter 6: Silent Movie Chapter 7: The History of Galaxies Origins Part 4: The Universe Chapter 8: Watching the Big Bang on Television Chapter 9: What Happened Before the Big Bang? Further Reading

Über Autor(innen)

As an astronomer, Stephen Eales has travelled around the world, working in Cambridge, Honolulu, Toronto, and at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore. He is currently a professor of Astrophysics and Cosmology at Cardiff University, where he carries out research into the origin of galaxies.