Origins How the Planets, Stars, Galaxies, and the Universe Began /

• Main Author: Eales, Stephen (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2007.
• Series: Astronomers’ Universe Series,
• Subjects: Physics.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy > Observations.; Cosmology.; Astronomy.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.; Popular Science in Astronomy.

The biggest questions in astronomy are those of how the planets, stars, galaxies, and the Universe were formed. ORIGINS describes how over the last decade, astronomers have discovered the probable answers to three of these fundamental questions. Starting with the space missions that have uncovered t...

Table of Contents:

• Planets
• Rocks
• The Day the Solar System Lost a Planet
• ET and the Exoplanets
• Stars
• Connections
• The Final Frontier
• Galaxies
• Silent Movie
• The History of Galaxies
• The Universe
• Watching the Big Bang on Television
• Plato’s Ghost.