EAN: 9783030683719

ASTRONOMERS UNIVERSE MULTIMESSENGER ASTRONOMY...

Written by a professional astronomer who has worked on a wide spectrum of topics throughout his
career  this book gives a popular science level description of what has become known as
multimessenger astronomy. It links the new with the traditional  showing how astronomy has
advanced at increasing pace in the modern era. In the second decade of the twenty-first century
astronomy has seen the beginnings of a revolution. After centuries when all our information
about the Universe has come via electromagnetic waves  now several entirely new ways of
exploring it have emerged. The most spectacular has been the detection of gravitational waves
in 2015  but astronomy also uses neutrinos and cosmic ray particles to probe processes in the
centres of stars and galaxies. The book is strongly oriented towards measurement and technique.
Widely illustrated with colourful pictures of instruments  their creators and astronomical
objects  it is backed with descriptions of the underlying theories and concepts  linking
predictions  observations and experiments. The thread is largely historical  although obviously
it cannot be encyclopaedic. Its point of departure is the beginning of the twentieth century
and it aims at being as complete as possible for the date of completion at the end of 2020.The
book addresses a wide public whose interest in science is served by magazines like Scientific
American: lively  intelligent readers but without university studies in physics.

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