Night Vision: Exploring the Infrared Universe

by Michael Rowan-Robinson

Book Overview

Drawing on exciting discoveries of the last forty years, Night Vision explores how infrared astronomy, an essential tool for modern astrophysics and cosmology, helps astronomers reveal our universe's most fascinating phenomena - from the birth of stars in dense clouds of gas, to black holes and distant colliding galaxies, and the traffic of interstellar dust from the formation of our Solar System. While surveying the progress in infrared observation,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107024765
• ISBN13: 9781107024762
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 259 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.1"