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Our Universe

The Universe in which we live is unimaginably vast and

ancient, with countless star-systems, galaxies and

extraordinary phenomena as strange and different from each

other as black holes, dark-matter, quasars, gamma-ray bursts

and diffuse nearly-invisible galaxies. From our earliest days

humankind has looked to the heavens and wondered in awe.

Our Universe is a fascinating collection of essays on

extragalactic astronomy and cosmology at the dawn of the

twenty-ﬁrst century. This is the second in a series of

extraordinary books in which S. Alan Stern has brought

together leading space scientists to describe their work. The

ﬁrst of these, Our Worlds , looked at the faraway worlds of our

solar system, but in this new book we leave our sun behind to

explore the vastness of the Universe itself.

This accessible and wonderfully illustrated book has been

written by some of the world’s foremost astrophysicists. Some

are theorists, some computational modellers, some observers,

but all provide deep insight into the most cutting-edge,

difﬁcult, and bizarre topics of all astrophysics.

Once again, highly personal accounts reveal much more

than the wonders and achievements of modern astronomy,

more than just its techniques and state of knowledge. Our

Universe also gives unique perspectives on what drives these

extraordinary, talented scientists and how their careers and

very lives have been shaped by a burning desire to understand

our Universe.

To my parents and their generation,

for opening the door

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Our Universe

The Thrill of

Extragalactic Exploration

As Told by Leading Experts

Edited by

S. ALAN STERN

Our Universe - The Thrill of Extragalactic Exploration - S. Stern (Cambridge, 2004) WW.pdf