More Things in the Heavens : : How Infrared Astronomy Is Expanding Our View of the Universe /

More Things in the Heavens : : How Infrared Astronomy Is Expanding Our View of the Universe / / Peter Eisenhardt, Michael Werner.

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 brou...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 English
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Werner, Michael,
Eisenhardt, Peter,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • 1. Exploring the Universe in the Infrared
  • 2. The Sky as Seen by Spitzer
  • 3. The Birth of Stars and Planetary Systems
  • 4. Planetary Debris Disks-Windows on Exoplanetary Systems
  • 5. A Torrent of Exoplanets
  • 6. Probing the Solar System in the Infrared
  • 7. Comets Are Not Forever
  • 8. The Milky Way and Interstellar Matter: Stars and the Space Between
  • 9. Just Beyond the Milky Way
  • 10. Meet the Milky Way's Neighbors
  • 11. Polling the Universe
  • 12. Quasars and Active Galactic Nuclei
  • 13. Galaxy Clusters: The Nodes in the Cosmic Web
  • 14. The Light of Other Days
  • 15. The Dim Boundary
  • 16. Returning Home
  • Appendix A. A Short History of the Spitzer Space Telescope
  • Appendix B. How Spitzer Works and How Spitzer Is Used
  • Acknowledgments
  • NOTES
  • Further Reading
  • Credits/Permissions
  • Credits for Epigraphs
  • INDEX

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