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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Birth of Modern Astronomy
  name:
    name part: Habing, Harm J.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XLII, 565 p. 407 illus., 159 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This richly illustrated book discusses the ways in which astronomy expanded after 1945 from a modest discipline to a robust and modern science. It begins with an introduction to the state of astronomy in 1945 before recounting how in the following years, initial observations were made in hitherto unexplored ranges of wavelengths, such as X-radiation, infrared radiation and radio waves. These led to the serendipitous discovery of more than a dozen new phenomena, including quasars and neutron stars, that each triggered a new area of research. The book goes on to discuss how after 1985, the further, systematic exploration of the earlier discoveries led to long-term planning and the construction of new, large telescopes on Earth and in Space. Key scientific highlights described in the text are the detection of exoplanets (1995), the unexpected discovery of the accelerated expansion of the Universe (1999), a generally accepted model for the large-scale properties of the Universe (2003) and the ΛCDM theory (2005) that explains how the galaxies and stars of the present Universe were formed from minute irregularities in the (almost) homogenous gas that filled the early Universe. All these major scientific achievements came at a price, namely the need to introduce two new phenomena that are as yet unexplained by physics: inflation and dark energy. Probably the deepest unsolved question has to be: Why did all of this start with a Big Bang?
  table of contents: Preface -- Table of Contents -- Prologue -- Part 1: 1945-1985 -- Chapter 1: Developments in Instruments -- Chapter 2: Stars and Galaxies -- Chapter 3: Developing New Instruments -- Chapter 4: Stars -- Chapter 5: Galaxies -- Chapter 6: Developments in Instruments -- Chapter 7: Stars -- Chapter 8: Galaxies and the Universe -- Part 2: 1985-2010 -- Chapter 9: Plans, People, Organisations and Instruments -- Chapter 10: Main-Sequence Stars and Failed Stars -- Chapter 11: Something Completely New: Exoplanets -- Chapter 12: The Formation of Stars -- Chapter 13: What is Left: Compact Objects -- Chapter 14: Transient Phenomena, Mergers and Explosions -- Chapter 15: Galaxies 1985-1995 -- Chapter 16: Galaxies 1995-2005: Another Revolution -- Chapter 17: Harvest Time -- Epilogue -- Index.
  note: by Harm J. Habing.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy
  subject:
    topic: Astrophysics
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
  subject:
    topic: History of Science
  classification: QC6.9
  classification: QC5.53
  classification: 530.01
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Historical & Cultural Astronomy
  identifier: 9783319990828
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99082-8
  record info:
    record creation date: 190323
    record change date: 20191022011138.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-99082-8