Surveying the Skies
How Astronomers Map the Universe
Since the time of Galileo, astronomy has been driven by technological innovation. With each major advance has come the opportunity and enthusiasm to survey the sky in a way that was not possible before. It is these surveys of discovery that are the subject of this book.In the first few chapters the author discusses what astronomers learned from visible-light surveys, first with the naked eye, then using telescopes in the seventeenth century, and photography in the nineteenth century. He then moves to the second half of the twentieth century when the skies started to be swept by radio, infrared, ultraviolet, x-ray and gamma ray telescopes, ma…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-3-319-28508-5
- EAN: 9783319285085
- Produktnummer: 31955386
- Verlag: Springer Nature EN
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 187 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.5 cm 3'473 g
- Auflage: 1st ed. 2016
- Abbildungen: schwarz-weiss Illustrationen, farbige Illustrationen, Tabellen, farbig
- Gewicht: 3473
- Sonstiges: Popular/general
Über den Autor
Born in London, Gareth Wynn-Williams received his BA and PhD degrees in physics from the University of Cambridge, specializing in radio astronomy. He then switched wavelength to spend two years doing postdoctoral research with the infrared astronomy group at Caltech. He held a faculty teaching position at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge University for five years before taking up a professorship at the University of Hawaii in 1978, where he remained until he retired in 2012. His research focus throughout his career has been interstellar matter in the Milky Way and in other galaxies.
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