Cosmic Dawn: The Search for the First Stars and Galaxies 2013th Edition
Author(s): George Rhee (Author)
Publisher: Springer
Publication Date: 9 Aug. 2013
Edition: 2013th
Language: English
Print length: 290 pages
ISBN-10: 146147812X
ISBN-13: 9781461478126
Book Description
Teaches the reader what the first stars and galaxies actually look like and how they could form
Provides the latest observational findings on the search for the first stars and galaxies
Explains the aims and goals of next-generation telescopes for astronomy
Editorial Reviews
Review
From the reviews:
“The search for the first generation of stars to form out of the cooling expanding gas following the big bang is the central theme of Cosmic Dawn. … this is one of the most readable books on cosmology around. Anyone with an interest in science will enjoy it. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readership levels.” (T. D. Oswalt, Choice, Vol. 51 (8), April, 2014)
From the Back Cover
The visible universe consists of stars and galaxies. One of the challenges of astronomy is to understand how galaxies and stars first came into existence over thirteen billion years ago. This book tells the story of our quest to solve this problem. Four hundred years after Galileo used his telescope to discover the moons of Jupiter, we are using new telescopes and instruments to search for the first galaxies to form after the Big Bang. This book brings the reader to the current frontier of this subject and lays out some of the exciting developments we can expect in the years to come.
About the Author
George Rhee is Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Nevada. He published 37 peer reviewed articles and is a co-author of a Nature article published in 2010. The author is an active researcher in astronomy but also an experienced teacher and has given many science talks in his career for general audiences.
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