State of the Universe 2008 new images, discoveries and events /
This annual astronomy review covers all major astronomical news on topics beyond the Solar System and includes web links for all major news stories, providing a bridge between the public news stories and the actual research web sites. The set of appendices at the end of the book include a list of la...
| Main Author: | Ratcliffe, Martin. |
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| Other Authors: | SpringerLink (Online Service) |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Berlin : Chichester, U.K. :
Springer ; Praxis Pub.,
2008.
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (viii, 183 pages) : illustrations. |
| Series: |
Springer-Praxis books in popular astronomy.
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Table of Contents:
- A year in News ... and Pictures: April 2006
- March 2007
- A year in News ... and Pictures: April 2006
- March 2007
- Astronomers Gather in Seattle ... The 209th American Astronomical Society Meeting
- Astronomers Gather in Seattle ... The 209th American Astronomical Society Meeting
- Features
- The State of the Universe ... New Steps in Expanding our Knowledge
- High-Stakes Astronomy at Low Frequencies ... Opening Up a New Wavelength Frontier
- Where Do All the Stars Come from? ... New Views of Star Formation with the Spitzer Space Telescope
- Chips off the Planetary Block ... Building Planetary Debris Disks
- High-Energy Vision ... The Chandra X-ray Observatory
- Surfing Long Waves of the Universe ... The National Radio Astronomy Observatory in the 21st Century
- Through the Eyes of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey ... Probing Deeper into the Milky Way Galaxy
- Reinventing the Hubble Space Telescope ... The Next Hubble Servicing Mission
- The History and Future of Telescopes ... 400 Years from Galileo to Keck and Beyond
- Chasing a Runaway Universe ... Dark Energy and the Accelerating Universe.