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The Invisible Universe
The Story of Radio Astronomy
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Hidden from human view, accessible only to sensitive receivers attached to huge radio telescopes, giant versions of backyard satellite dishes, the invisible universe beyond our senses continues to fascinate and intrigue our imaginations. We cannot really comprehend what it means to say that a galaxy is exploding, yet that is the nature of some of the distant radio sources in the furthest reaches of space. Closer to home, in the Milky Way galaxy, radio astronomers listen patiently to the ticking of pulsars that tell of star death and states of matter of awesome densities. And between the stars, radio emission from a host of over 120 complex molecules radiate outward to reveal a tale about chemical processes that produce the very stuff of life. And all of this happens out there in the universe hidden from our eyes, even when aided by the Hubble Space Telescope. This is the story of radio astronomy, of how radio waves are generated by stars, supernova, quasars, colliding galaxies, and by the very beginnings of the universe itself.
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Springer-Verlag New York Inc; March 2007
167 pages; ISBN 9780387683607
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167 pages; ISBN 9780387683607
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Subject categories
- Academic > Space Sciences > Astrophysics > Non-optical methods of astronomy
- Academic > Space Sciences > Astrophysics > Radio astronomy
- Academic > Space Sciences > General > Astronomy Observations
- Academic > Space Sciences > General > Astronomy; Mathematics; History
- Science > Astronomy
- Science > Cosmology
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0387683607
9780387308166
9780387683607

