Cosmic Dawn The Search for the First Stars and Galaxies /
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...
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Springer New York : Imprint: Springer,
2013.
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| Series: | Astronomers' Universe,
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| Online Access: | https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7813-3 |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | XI, 279 p. 96 illus., 79 illus. in color. online resource. |
| ISBN: | 9781461478133 |
| ISSN: | 1614-659X |