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Cosmic Dawn: The Search for the First Stars and Galaxies (Astronomers' Universe) - Softcover

Book 34 of 84: Astronomers' Universe

Rhee, George

 
9781461478126: Cosmic Dawn: The Search for the First Stars and Galaxies (Astronomers' Universe)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 146147812X ISBN 13: 9781461478126
Publisher: Springer, 2013

Synopsis

Teaches the reader what the first stars and galaxies actually look like and how they could form

Provides the latest observational findings on the search for the first stars and galaxies

Explains the aims and goals of next-generation telescopes for astronomy

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About the Author

George Rhee is Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Nevada. He published 37 peer reviewed articles and is a co-author of a Nature article published in 2010. The author is an active researcher in astronomy but also an experienced teacher and has given many science talks in his career for general audiences.

From the Back Cover

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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Publisher
Springer
Publication date
2013
Language
English
ISBN 10 
146147812X
ISBN 13 
9781461478126
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
290