Cosmic Dawn The Search for the First Stars and Galaxies /

• Main Author: Rhee, George (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Astronomers' Universe,
• Subjects: Physics.; Cultural heritage.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy > Observations.; Astronomy.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; Cultural Heritage.

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.