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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Invisible Universe
    sub title: The Story of Radio Astronomy
  name:
    name part: Verschuur, Gerrit.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2007
    edition: Second Edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIII, 156 p. online resource.
  abstract: 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. In The Invisible Universe, you learn what astronomers are doing with those huge dishes in the New Mexico desert, in a remote valley in Puerto Rico, in the green Pocahontas Valley in West Virginia, as well as dozens of other remote sites around the world. With each of these observatories, the scientists collect and analyze their data, "listening" to the radio signals from space, in order to learn what is out there, and perhaps even if someone else may be listening as well.
  table of contents: Introduction: Adventure, Imagination, and Curiosity -- What is Radio Astronomy? -- A Science is Born -- The Radio Sun and Planets -- The Galactic Radio Nebulae -- Radio Waves from the Milky Way -- Interstellar Hydrogen -- Interstellar Molecules -- Pulsars -- The Galactic Superstars -- Radio Galaxies -- Quasars -- The Grand Unification: Active Galactic Nuclei -- Beyond the Quasars—Radio Cosmology -- On the Radio Astronomical Quest for Extraterrestrial Intelligence -- Radio Telescopes: The Future -- What’s it All About?.
  note: by Gerrit Verschuur.
  subject:
    topic: Popular works
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy
  subject:
    topic: Astrophysics
  subject:
    topic: Cosmology
  subject:
    topic: Observations, Astronomical
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy
    topic: Observations
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science in Astronomy
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
  classification: QB1-991
  classification: 520
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9780387683607
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-68360-7
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