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First dawn : from the big bang to our future in space /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Battiston, Roberto (Author)
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Other Authors: McClellan-Broussard, Bonnie (Translator), Bartusiak, Marcia, 1950- (writer of foreword.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2022]
Subjects:
Astrophysics.
Cosmology.
Outer space.
Astrophysique.
Cosmologie.
Espace extra-atmosphérique.
astrophysics.
cosmology.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Lights beyond the horizon
  • Traveling companions
  • The laws of the cosmos
  • Knowing that we don't know
  • Elephants in the room
  • Fiat lux?
  • Space
  • Ten infernal minutes
  • And there was not light
  • The first dawn of the cosmos
  • A special star
  • The dawn of the solar system
  • The Earth and its climate
  • The dawn of life
  • Interstellar migrations
  • Other suns, other worlds
  • Where are they?
  • The dark side of the cosmos
  • The organization of the universe
  • Black holes
  • Towards a new astronomy
  • Towards the infinitely large
  • Towards the infinitely small
  • Big science
  • The universe as a laboratory
  • A special particle
  • Antimatter
  • Hunting for antimatter in space
  • New territories, new dawns
  • The dawn of aeronautics
  • The dawn of the next star
  • Even more satellites, even smaller
  • The dawn of the future.