Cosmic Dawn The Search for the First Stars and Galaxies /

• Main Author: Rhee, George. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Astronomers' Universe,
• Subjects: Physics.; Astronomy.; Humanities.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; Cultural Heritage.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7813-3

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...

Table of Contents:

• An evening in May
• A brief history of cosmology
• The Big Bang
• The Visible Universe
• Dark matter
• Cosmic backgrounds
• Clues from Nearby Galaxies (astronomical fossils)
• Structure formation
• A map of the universe
• The First Stars and Galaxies
• The great time machines; A New Generation of Telescopes
• Exploring the Universe from Space with the next Hubble telescope.