David L. Block

Shrouds of the Night: Masks of the Milky Way and Our Awesome New View of Galaxies

Buch

The Milky Way has captivated the mind of multitudes ever since the beginning of time. Particularly striking are its apparent dusty gaping voids. With the advent of near-infrared technology, astronomers have discovered an awesome new view of its structure, and of the structure of other galaxies around us. Galaxies are encased within shrouds of the night: shrouds or veils of cosmic dust, which have given us a totally incomplete picture of what our majestic Universe actually looks like. Shrouds of the Night features some of the most remarkable early photographic work of masters such as Isaac Roberts and Edward Barnard, before presenting to the… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Freeman, Kenneth C.

ISBN: 978-0-387-78974-3
EAN: 9780387789743
Produktnummer: 20355433
Verlag: Springer Nature
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
Seitenangabe: 441 S.
Masse: H31.5 cm x B22.9 cm x D3.3 cm 2'245 g
Auflage: 2008
Gewicht: 2245

Über den Autor

David Block is Director of the Anglo American Cosmic Dust Laboratory and Professor of Computational and Applied Mathematics at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. He has been a visiting astronomer at the European Southern Observatory, the Institute of Astronomy (Hawaii) and the Center for Astrophysics at Harvard University. His research has twice been featured on the cover of the journal Nature and he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society of London at age 19.Ken Freeman FRS is Duffield Professor of Astronomy at the Australian National University. He was a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, Oort Professor at Leiden University, Blaauw Professorat the University of Groningen and Tinsley Professor at the University of Texas. He is one of the first astronomers to show that spiral galaxies are immersed in a vast halo of dark matter, and is one of Australia's most highly cited scientists.