Cosmic Odyssey: How Intrepid Astronomers at Palomar Observatory Changed our View of the Universe
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Authors: |
Schweizer, Linda |
Publisher: |
MIT Press |
BISAC/Subject: |
SCI098000, SCI004000, SCI005000 |
ISBN: |
9780262359658, Related ISBNs: 0262044293, 0262359650, 9780262044295, 9780262359658 |
Classification: |
Non-Fiction |
Number of pages: |
312, |
Audience: |
General/trade |
Synopsis: How pioneering scientists at Palomar Observatory make dazzling discoveries of astronomical phenomena beyond human experience and imagination.
Ever since 1936, pioneering scientists at Palomar Observatory in Southern California have pushed against the boundaries of the known universe, making a series of dazzling discoveries that changed our view of the cosmos: quasars, colliding galaxies, supermassive black holes, brown dwarfs, supernovae, dark matter, the never-ending expansion of the universe, and much more. In Cosmic Odyssey, astronomer Linda Schweizer tells the story of the men and women at Palomar and their efforts to decipher the vast energies and mysterious processes that govern our universe.
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