Авиация / When Galaxies Were Born: The Quest for Cosmic Dawn

Название: When Galaxies Were Born: The Quest for Cosmic Dawn
Автор: Richard S. Ellis
Издательство: Princeton University Press
Год: 2022
Страниц: 281
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 25 MB

One of today’s leading astronomers takes readers inside the decades-long search for the first galaxies and the origin of starlight. Astronomers are like time travelers, scanning the night sky for the outermost galaxies that first came into being when our universe was a mere fraction of its present age. When Galaxies Were Born is Richard Ellis’s firsthand account of how a pioneering generation of scientists harnessed the world’s largest telescopes to decipher the history of the universe and witness cosmic dawn, the time when starlight first bathed the cosmos and galaxies emerged from darkness.