More Things in the Heavens (eBook)

How Infrared Astronomy Is Expanding Our View of the Universe

Peter Eisenhardt, Michael Werner (Autoren)

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2019
304 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-19196-6 (ISBN)

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Michael Werner is a senior research scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. He has been the lead scientist for the Spitzer Space Telescope since 1984. He lives in Pasadena, California. Peter Eisenhardt is a senior research scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He received NASA's Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal for his work on Spitzer. He lives in Altadena, California.

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A sweeping tour of the infrared universe as seen through the eyes of NASA's Spitzer Space TelescopeAstronomers have been studying the heavens for thousands of years, but until recently much of the cosmos has been invisible to the human eye. Launched in 2003, the Spitzer Space Telescope has brought the infrared universe into focus as never before. Michael Werner and Peter Eisenhardt are among the scientists who worked for decades to bring this historic mission to life. Here is their inside story of how Spitzer continues to carry out cutting-edge infrared astronomy to help answer fundamental questions that have intrigued humankind since time immemorial: Where did we come from? How did the universe evolve? Are we alone?In this panoramic book, Werner and Eisenhardt take readers on a breathtaking guided tour of the cosmos in the infrared, beginning in our solar system and venturing ever outward toward the distant origins of the expanding universe. They explain how astronomers use the infrared to observe celestial bodies that are too cold or too far away for their light to be seen by the eye, to conduct deep surveys of galaxies as they appeared at the dawn of time, and to peer through dense cosmic clouds that obscure major events in the life cycles of planets, stars, and galaxies.Featuring many of Spitzer's spectacular images, More Things in the Heavens provides a thrilling look at how infrared astronomy is aiding the search for exoplanets and extraterrestrial life, and transforming our understanding of the history and evolution of our universe.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.6.2019
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Luft- / Raumfahrttechnik
• Schlagworte: accretion disk • Active Galactic Nucleus • Angular momentum • Asteroid belt • Astronomer • Astronomical Object • Astronomical Unit • Astronomy • astrophysics • Atmosphere of Earth • Billion years • Brown Dwarf • Cepheid variable • Chandra X-Ray Observatory • Chronology of the universe • Cosmic Background Explorer • Cosmic Dust • Cosmic Evolution (book) • Cosmic microwave background • Cryogenics • Debris disk • Electromagnetic radiation • exoplanet • Formation and evolution of the Solar System • Galactic Center • Galactic plane • Galaxy cluster • Gas giant • Goddard Space Flight Center • Gravitational Field • Gravity • HD 69830 • Helix nebula • Herschel space observatory • Hertzsprung–Russell diagram • HR 8799 • Hubble space telescope • hydrogen atom • Infrared • Infrared Astronomy • Infrared Space Observatory • Interstellar cloud • Interstellar Medium • iras • James Webb Space Telescope • Jupiter • Kuiper Belt • Large Magellanic Cloud • light-year • Luminosity • Lyman-break galaxy • Lyman Spitzer • Main sequence • Measurement • milky way • Molecule • Near-Earth object • Nebular hypothesis • neutron star • observable universe • Observatory • Oort Cloud • Orbit of Mars • Photometric redshift • Photosphere • Planetary nebula • Planetary System • Planetesimal • Protoplanetary disk • Protostar • Quasar • Red Giant • Redshift • Reionization • Saturn • silicate • Solar Luminosity • Solar mass • Solar System • spacecraft • Spectral energy distribution • Spectrograph • Spiral galaxy • Spitzer (bullet) • Spitzer Space Telescope • Star • Starburst Galaxy • star cluster • star formation • Stellar mass • Supermassive Black Hole • Supernova • Temperature • Trappist-1 • Ultraviolet • Visible spectrum • Wavelength • White Dwarf • Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer • year
• ISBN-10: 0-691-19196-4 / 0691191964
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-19196-6 / 9780691191966