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Informationen zum Autor Lars Lindberg Christensen is press officer of the International Astronomical Union! as well as IAU EC International Year of Astronomy 2009 Working Group Secretary. An astronomer by profession! he is a science communication specialist heading the Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre group! responsible for public outreach and education for the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope in Europe.Robert (Bob) Fosbury is an astronomer working for the European Space Agency (ESA) as part of ESA's collaboration with NASA on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) project at ST-ECF. Bob also served on NASA's Ad Hoc Science Working Group and ESA's Study Science Team as they developed the instrument concepts for the James Webb Space Telescope! the next generation space observatory. Bon and Lars wrote the highly successful "Hubble - 15 Years of Discovery".Robert Hurt is professional artist! specialized on art in astronomy. Klappentext For thousands of years man used little but their eyes to observe and record the light from the stars. This changed dramatically 400 years ago when Galileo first turned his telescope towards the heavens! expanding our ability to see and understand the Universe. Yet for the next 350 years! the potential of this magnificent device was limited merely to the tiny sliver of the spectrum visible to human eyes. Only in the last 50 years or so have a series of technological advances given us access to the hidden Universe: the cosmic domains of radio waves! infrared light! ultraviolet light! X-rays... Layer by layer the cosmic onion has been peeled away to reveal a reality stunningly different from what we thought we knew about a merely visible Universe. This book shows the fundamental change in worldview brought on by expanding our perceptions to cover the full spectrum of light.Hidden Universe is lavishly illustrated. The striking images are hand-picked and partly created by the authors themselves. Boxes and illustrations give an easily accessible overview of processes! telescopes and backgrounds that make this book not only an interesting but an enjoyable and fun read. Zusammenfassung Unsere Augen sind ein Ergebnis der Anpassung an das Sonnenlicht. Die Sonne ist ein Zwergstern! die nur in einem relativ engen Spektralbereich emittiert. Entsprechend wenig sehen wir vom Universum. Wissenschaftlich exakt und trotzdem unterhaltsam zeigen die Autor dieses Bandes auch dem fachlichen Laien! was uns in anderen Bereichen des Spektrums entgeht! von Radiowellen über UV- und Röntgenstrahlung bis zur kosmischen Strahlung. Hervorragende Abbildungen! Infokästen und Diagramme lockern den Text auf und lassen die Fakten anschaulich werden. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword by Riccardo GiacconiPreface1. Light and Vision2. The View from the Ground3. Space Observatories4. The Visible Universe5. The Infrared Universe6. The Ultraviolet Universe7. The Radio & Microwave Universe8. The X-ray & High Energy Universe9. The Multi-Wavelength UniverseGlossary ...
List of contents
Foreword by Riccardo Giacconi
Preface
1. Light and Vision
2. The View from the Ground
3. Space Observatories
4. The Visible Universe
5. The Infrared Universe
6. The Ultraviolet Universe
7. The Radio & Microwave Universe
8. The X-ray & High Energy Universe
9. The Multi-Wavelength Universe
Glossary
Report
"This book is an exhilarating and remarkable voyage into a universe that the naked eye cannot see.... Hidden Universe will, without a doubt, open your eyes and your mind to the dramatic and dazzling light-show that is out hidden universe." ( Spaceflight , May 2009)
"[This] story of how different telescopes have peeled away layers of the "cosmic onion" offers a useful counterpoint to the history of the telescopes." ( Physics World , March 2009)
" Hidden Universe provides a technical description of efforts to study beyond the visual but has been written in a way which would appeal to amateur astronomers who seek to understand the work of professionals especially in PRO-AM projects. Recommended." ( The Astronomer , February 2009)
