More things in the heavens : how infrared astronomy is expanding our view of the universe /
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| Language: | English |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Preface; 1. Exploring the Universe in the Infrared; 2. The Sky as Seen by Spitzer; 3. The Birth of Stars and Planetary Systems; 4. Planetary Debris Disks-Windows on Exoplanetary Systems; 5. A Torrent of Exoplanets; 6. Probing the Solar System in the Infrared; 7. Comets Are Not Forever; 8. The Milky Way and Interstellar Matter: Stars and the Space Between; 9. Just Beyond the Milky Way; 10. Meet the Milky Way's Neighbors; 11. Polling the Universe; 12. Quasars and Active Galactic Nuclei; 13. Galaxy Clusters: The Nodes in the Cosmic Web; 14. The Light of Other Days
- 15. The Dim Boundary16. Returning Home; Appendix A. A Short History of the Spitzer Space Telescope; Appendix B. How Spitzer Works and How Spitzer Is Used; Acknowledgments; Notes; Further Reading; Credits/Permissions; Credits for Epigraphs; Index