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

Block, D./ Freeman, K.

Springer（2008/12発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 490 p.／サイズ 204 illus.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780387789743
• DDC分類 523

Full Description

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. In this book, we feature some of the remarkable early photographic work of masters such as Isaac Roberts and Edward Barnard, before presenting to the reader the unmasked (dust penetrated) view of our cosmos, using some of the world's largest ground and space-based telescopes.

Contents

The Grand Stage Before Us: "The Sidereal Messenger".- Cosmic Masks: Shrouds of the Night.- Detectives in Chile.- Chemical Factories Smaller than a Snowflake.- From Seeds to Stars: The Art and Science of Classification.- The Dawning of the Photographic Era.- John Reynolds: Morphologist Extraordinaire.- The Dust Penetrated Universe: Hidden Symmetries.- The Grand Bow.- Penetrating the Mask of Time.- Eyes to the Future: Where Eagles Soar.- Planets Orbiting other Stars.- The Insignificance of Man?.- The Mind of God.- Scholium.