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Preface -- What is Radio Astronomy? -- A Science is Born -- The Radio Sun and Planets -- The Galactic Radio Nebulae -- Radio Waves from the Milky Way -- Interstellar Neutral Hydrogen -- Interstellar Molecules -- Pulsars -- The Galactic Superstars -- Radio Galaxies -- Quasars -- The Grand Unification: Active Galactic Nuclei -- Beyond the Quasars Radio Cosmology -- Radio Telescopes in High Places -- Radio Telescopes: The Future -- China Rising -- On the Radio Astronomical Quest for Extraterrestrial Intelligence -- On Growth and Obsolescence -- What Lies Ahead?- Appendix -- Further Reading -- Index.;Hidden from human view, accessible only to sensitive receivers attached to huge radio telescopes, the invisible universe beyond our senses continues to fascinate and intrigue our imaginations. Closer to home, in the Milky Way galaxy, radio astronomers listen patiently to the ticking of pulsars that tell of star death and states of matter of awesome densities. All of this happens out there in the universe hidden from our eyes, even when aided by the Hubble Space Telescope. This is the story of radio astronomy, of how radio waves are generated by stars, supernova, quasars, colliding galaxies

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Author

Gerrit L Verschuur

Publisher

Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9783319134222

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Philosophy, Technology