Night vision : exploring the infrared universe /
Drawing on exciting discoveries of the last forty years, Night Vision explores how infrared astronomy, an essential tool for modern astrophysics and cosmology, helps astronomers reveal our Universe's most fascinating phenomena, from the birth of stars in dense clouds of gas to black holes and d...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2013]
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. William Herschel opens up the invisible universe
- 3. 1800-1950: slow progress-- the moon, planets, bright stars, and the discovery of interstellar dust
- 4. Dying stars shrouded in dust and stars being born: the emergence of infrared astronomy in the 1960s and 1970s
- 5. Birth of submillimetre astronomy: clouds of dust and molecules in our Galaxy
- 6. The cosmic microwave background, echo of the Big Bang
- 7. The Infrared Astronomical Satellite and the opening up of extragalactic infrared astronomy: starbursts and active galactic nuclei
- 8. The Cosmic Background Explorer and the ripples, the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Explorer, and dark energy
- 9. Giant ground-based infrared and submillimetre telescopes
- 10. The Infrared Space Observatory and the Spitzer Space Telescope: the star-formation history of the universe
- 11. Our Solar System's dusty debris disks and the search for exoplanets
- 12. The future: pioneering space missions and giant ground-based telescopes.