Overview
- A friendly style which doesn’t assume a great amount of knowledge
- Focuses on some of the most important discoveries but also discoveries which people are most interested in
- Interviews with the people who made the discoveries with their own insight and analysis
- Asks some important questions on the prevalence of life, the future of modern astrophysical problems and what we might discover in the far off reaches of our Solar System
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Astronomers' Universe (ASTRONOM)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Water and the Search for Life in our Solar System
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Our Active Solar System
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Worlds Around Other Stars
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The Universe at Large
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About this book
In the last thirty years humans have probed the Universe, explored the Solar System and visited with spacecraft some of the most incredible places humans have ever laid eyes upon. We have expanded our knowledge slowly and surely, but still now only see a glimpse of the bigger picture. The Cosmic Keyhole explores the big discoveries of recent years and asks what’s next? How prolific is life in the Universe? How far back to the Big Bang can we probe? And what hidden treasures still await us in the hidden corners of our Solar System?
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About the author
Will Gater has written for the UK’s top astronomy magazines and has appeared on television and radio (including the BBC’s The Sky At Night) to promote astronomy and science. He has worked for the European Space Agency's Hubble Space Telescope press office, the European Southern Observatory’s public outreach department and is a former News Editor of Astronomy Now magazine in the UK. He holds a degree in astrophysics from University College London. Today Gater writes for the BBC’s Sky At Night magazine. He regularly blogs about astronomy on his website www.willgater.com.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Cosmic Keyhole
Book Subtitle: How Astronomy Is Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe
Authors: William J.H. Gater
Series Title: Astronomers' Universe
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0513-0
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-0512-3Published: 15 September 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-8140-0Published: 18 September 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-0513-0Published: 18 September 2009
Series ISSN: 1614-659X
Series E-ISSN: 2197-6651
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 254
Topics: Popular Science in Astronomy, Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology, Planetology