Origins

How the Planets, Stars, Galaxies, and the Universe Began
1. Auflage. Softcover version of original hardcover Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-1-84996-597-2
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 284 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 452 g

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

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Geschichte der Astronomie
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Angewandte Physik Astrophysik
• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Astronomie: Sachbuch
• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Astrophysik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Planets.- Rocks.- The Day the Solar System Lost a Planet.- ET and the Exoplanets.- Stars.- Connections.- The Final Frontier.- Galaxies.- Silent Movie.- The History of Galaxies.- The Universe.- Watching the Big Bang on Television.- Plato’s Ghost.

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.