The amazing unity of the universe : and its origin in the Big Bang / Edward van den Heuvel.
In the first chapters the author describes how our knowledge of the position of Earth in space and time has developed, thanks to the work of many generations of astronomers and physicists. He discusses how our position in the Galaxy was discovered, and how in 1929, Hubble uncovered the fact that the...
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2016.
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
| Series: | Astronomers' universe.
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Table of Contents:
- Our Strange Universe
- The Sun's Backyard: Our Solar System
- How Distant Are the Stars?- The Discovery of the Structure of Our Milky Way Galaxy
- The Chemical Composition of the Sun and Stars
- Other Galaxies and the Discovery of the Expansion of the Universe
- Gravity According to Galilei, Newton, Einstein and Mach
- Einstein, de Sitter, Friedmann, Lemaitre and the Evolution of the Universe
- The Big Bang as the Origin of the Universe
- The Origin of the Matter in the Universe
- We Are Made of Stardust: Timescales of the Universe and of Life
- Is the Universe Open, Closed or Flat? The Horizon Problem, the Flatness Problem and Inflation
- Dark Matter and Dark Energy: Our Strange Universe
- Ripples in the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
- Time in the Universe
- From Universe to Multiverse
- Intelligent Life Elsewhere in the Universe
- Epilogue
- Appendices.