Research Catalog

Title

Our evolving universe / Malcolm S. Longair.

Author

Longair, Malcolm S., 1941-

Publication

Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.

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Details

Description

xii, 185 pages : illustrations (some color); 29 cm

Summary

Introduction to astronomy and cosmology with recent results of research on the origin of stars, black holes, dark matter, galaxies, quasars, and the Big Bang.

Subject

• Quasar
• Gesellschaft der Behutsamen Stadterneuerung Berlin, West
• Stars > Evolution
• Galaxies > Evolution
• Quasars
• Cosmology
• cosmology
• 39.30 cosmology
• Evolution
• Galaxie
• Kosmogonie
• Kosmologie
• Heelal
• Ontwikkeling (proces)
• Galaxias
• STARS
• GALAXIES
• GALACTIC EVOLUTION
• QUASARS
• COSMOLOGY
• Cosmologie
• Univers
• Stars
• Galaxies
• Stern

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [160]-161) and index.

Contents

1. grand design -- 1.1. unfolding Universe -- 1.2. Sizes and distances in the Universe -- 1.3. nature of light and the electromagnetic spectrum -- 1.4. Observing the sky through the Earth's atmosphere -- 1.5. temperatures of celestial objects -- 1.6. Universe as observed in different wavebands -- 1.7. multi-wavelength Universe -- 2. birth of the stars and the great cosmic cycle -- 2.1. Powering the Sun and the stars -- 2.2. Sun -- a testbed for the physics of the stars -- 2.3. evolution of stars and the great cosmic cycle -- 2.4. How to observe stars forming -- 2.5. problems of star formation -- 2.6. Interstellar chemistry and the origin of life -- 3. origin of quasars -- 3.1. origins of high energy astrophysics -- 3.2. radio galaxies and the discovery of quasars -- 3.3. discovery of pulsars -- 3.4. supernova SN1987A -- 3.5. discovery of X-ray binary sources -- 3.6. General relativity and black holes -- 3.7. astrophysics of black holes -- 3.8. Observational evidence for black holes -- 3.9. big problems -- 4. origin of galaxies -- 4.1. evolution of galaxies oversimplified -- 4.2. Hubble's law and the expansion of the Universe -- 4.3. dynamics of the expanding Universe -- 4.4. measurement of cosmological parameters -- 4.5. dark matter problem -- 4.6. Gravitational lenses and dark matter -- 4.7. basic problems of galaxy formation -- 4.8. Radiation in the expanding Universe -- 4.9. Dark matter and galaxy formation -- 4.10. Making real galaxies -- 5. origin of the Universe -- 5.1. Towards the Big Bang -- 5.2. thermal history of the Universe -- 5.3. synthesis of the light elements -- 5.4. Nine facts about the Universe -- 5.5. four fundamental problems -- 5.6. Solutions to the great problems -- 5.7. anthropic cosmological principle -- 5.8. inflationary Universe and clues from particle physics -- 5.9. Final things.

ISBN

• 0521550912
• 9780521550918
• 0521629756
• 9780521629751

LCCN

95016415

OCLC

• ocm32467214
• 32467214
• SCSB-538699

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library