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008			130903s2013 enka ob s001 0 eng d
040			_aNT _erda _epn _beng _cNT
020			_a9781139625586 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)l((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)ctronic bk.
050	0	4	_aQB470 _b.N544 2013
049			_aNTA
100	1		_aRowan-Robinson, Michael. _e1
245	1	0	_aNight vision : _bexploring the infrared universe / _cMichael Rowan-Robinson.
260			_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c(c)2013.
300			_a1 online resource (x, 251 pages,16 pages of plates) : _billustrations (some color).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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520	0		_a"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, astronomer Michael Rowan-Robinson introduces readers to the pioneering scientists and engineers who painstakingly developed infrared astronomy over the past two hundred years. Accessible and well illustrated, this comprehensive volume is written for the interested science reader, amateur astronomer or university student, while researchers in astronomy and the history of science will find Rowan-Robinson's detailed notes and references a valuable resource"-- _cProvided by publisher.
505	0	0	_a1. Introduction -- _t2. William Herschel opens up the invisible universe -- _t3. 1800-1950: slow progress-- the moon, planets, bright stars, and the discovery of interstellar dust -- _t4. Dying stars shrouded in dust and stars being born: the emergence of infrared astronomy in the 1960s and 1970s -- _t5. Birth of submillimetre astronomy: clouds of dust and molecules in our Galaxy -- _t6. The cosmic microwave background, echo of the Big Bang -- _t7. The Infrared Astronomical Satellite and the opening up of extragalactic infrared astronomy: starbursts and active galactic nuclei -- _t8. The Cosmic Background Explorer and the ripples, the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Explorer, and dark energy -- _t9. Giant ground-based infrared and submillimetre telescopes -- _t10. The Infrared Space Observatory and the Spitzer Space Telescope: the star-formation history of the universe -- _t11. Our Solar System's dusty debris disks and the search for exoplanets -- _t12. The future: pioneering space missions and giant ground-based telescopes.
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650		0	_aInfrared astronomy.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=508334&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell