The X-Ray Universe

Nachdruck 2014
ISBN: 978-0-674-59443-2
Verlag: Harvard University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 11, 209 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 490 g

Reihe: Harvard Books on Astronomy

Beyond the range of optical perception--and of ordinary imaginings--a new and violent universe lay undetected until the advent of space exploration. Supernovae, black holes, quasars and pulsars--these were the secrets of the highenergy world revealed when, for the first time, astronomers attached their instruments to rockets and lofted them beyond the earth's x-ray-absorbing atmosphere. The X-Ray Universe is the story of these explorations and the fantastic new science they brought into being. It is a first-hand account: Riccardo Giacconi is one of the principal pioneers of the field, and Wallace Tucker is a theorist who worked closely with him at many critical periods. The book carries the reader from the early days of the Naval Research Laboratory through the era of V-2 rocketry, Sputnik, and the birth of NASA, to the launching of the Einstein X-Ray Observatory. But this is by no means just a history. Behind the suspenseful, sometimes humorous details of human personality grappling with high technology lies a sophisticated exposition of current cosmology and astrophysics, from the rise and fall of the steady-state theory to the search for the missing mass of the universe.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tucker, Wallace

Giacconi, Riccardo

Über Autor(innen)

Tucker Wallace:

Wallace Tucker is science spokesman for the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's Chandra X-ray Center. He is coauthor with his wife of numerous books on astronomy.Giacconi Riccardo:

Riccardo Giacconi is Director, Space Telescope Science Institute and Professor of Astrophysics, Johns Hopkins University.