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How did our universe come to exist? Why do stars shine? Is there life beyond the Earth? For millennia, humans have looked to the celestial sphere to explain the cosmos,first recording the movements of the Moon 25,000 years ago. Since the Enlightenmentand the dawn of the space age, scientists have been unravelling cosmic mysteries, andraising astonishing new questions for future generations to answer. Today we live inan age of unprecedented astronomical revelation, from the discovery of water on Marsto the detection of gravitational waves and the first photograph of a black hole. World-renowned astronomer Paul Murdin explains the science behind these discoveries, along with the passions, strugglesand quirks of fate that made them some of the most intriguing dramas of their times,demonstrating how human ingenuity and technological innovation have expandedour knowledge of the Universe beyond anything our ancestors even as recently asa generation ago could ever have imagined. ONIX short
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All page numbers refer to the 2019 print edition.
References in bold indicate plate numbers
2C catalogue 269–70
3C 48 (radio source, quasar) 253
3C 273 (radio source, quasar) 253, 255–56, 257, 262
3C catalogue 255, 270
4C catalogue 270
40 Eridani (star) 166–67
51 Peg b (exoplanet) 207–8
51 Pegasi (star) 207–8
61 Cygni (star) 180
1992 QB1 (Kuiper Belt Object) 74
Abbe, Cleveland 251
Abbott, Charles G. 113
Academy of Sciences, Paris 30, 31
accretion 235, 259
active galactic nuclei (AGNs) 257–58, 262, 309
active galaxies 253–56, 257–58, 300, 309
Adams, John Couch 58, 59–60, 143
Adams, S. W. 273
Adams, Walter 112, 166, 168
Adams ring 134
Aerobee rockets 157
Age of Aquarius 35
AGNs see active galactic nuclei
Airy, George 59
Al-Sufi 183, 250
alchemy 138
Aldrin, Buzz X
Alfvén, Hannes 87
algae 297
Algol 163–64
Algol paradox 164, 300
ALH84001 (meteorite) 79, 296
Almagest (Ptolemy) 20, 23, 26
alpha-beta-gamma (paper) 216
Alpha Centauri 180
Alpher, Ralph 216, 271–72, 273
Alvarez, Luis Walter 220
amino acids 293, 295
anagram announcement 51–52, 53, 132
Anders, Ed 238
Andromeda galaxy (M31) 181, 182–83, 184, 185, 204, 248
Andromeda Nebula see Andromeda galaxy
anisotropies in the Cosmic Microwave Background 274
Annefrank (asteroid) 67
Antarctic meteorites 78–79
Antennae XXV
Antoniadi, Eugenios 117
Antonucci, Robert 258
Apennine Mountains (Moon) 104
aperture synthesis interferometry 11, 300
Apollo lunar exploration programme 103–4, 109; VI
Appolonius of Perga 38
Aquarius (constellation) 35
Arago, François 51, 58
Arago ring 134
Aratus of Soli 23, 35, 191
archaea 294
Argo (constellation) 34, 36
Aries (constellation) 35
Arietid meteor shower 83
Aristarchus 177
Aristotle 27, 28, 77, 89, 196
Aristotelian elements 77
Arrhenius, Svante 91, 113
Asca (spacecraft) 258
Asimov, Isaac 14
asterisms 24
asteroid belt 62, 66, 300
asteroids 62–67, 80, 92, 97–102, 235, 300; VII
Atkinson, Robert d’Escourt 213, 216
atomic energy 212
atomic transmutation 213
atoms 215
aurorae 86, 129, 300
Australian Astronomical Observatory 7–8
axions 288–89
B-squared FH (paper) 217–18
Baade, Walter 171, 227, 254–55
Babylonians 19–20, 23, 25
Bahcall, John 220
Balick, Bruce 261
Banks, Joseph 45
Barberini, Cardinal Maffeo 53
Barish, Barry 277
Barnard, Edward E. 126, 237
Barrett, Alan 189
Barringer, Daniel 12, 98–99
Becklin, Eric 189–90, 233
Becklin–Neugebauer Object 233, 234, 300
Becquerel, Henri 172, 212
Beer, Wilhelm 116
Bell, Jocelyn 13, 170–72
Bellarmine, Cardinal 53
Bennu (asteroid) VII
BeppoSAX (spacecraft) 265
Bessel, Friedrich 165, 180
Beta Persei 163
Beta Pictoris 233
Beta Taurid meteor shower 83
Bethe, H...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- About the Author
- Other Titles of Interest
- Contents
- Introduction
- Before the Telescope
- Discovering the Solar System
- The Dynamic Universe
- Our Galaxy and Its Stars
- The Universe and Its Galaxies
- Future Discoveries
- Glossary
- Further Reading
- Acknowledgments
- Illustration Credits
- Index
- Copyright