Night Vision: Exploring the Infrared Universe (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781107024762)

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.

Author: Michael Rowan-Robinson
ISBN-10: 1107024765
ISBN-13: 9781107024762
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/08/2013
Pages: 259
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 01/01/2014