Ripples in the cosmos : a view behind the scenes of the new cosmology
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-214) and index
1. Prologue -- 2. The lure of number -- 3. Thirty years of the new astronomy -- 4. Hubble's law, the cosmological distance ladder and the Big Bang -- 5. The years of building IRAS -- 6. First view of the far infrared sky -- 7. Discovering the power of IRAS -- 8. The microwave background story -- 9. The IRAS dipole and the 'death' of the Great Attractor -- 10. Crisis for cold dark matter? -- 11. From quasars to ultraluminous infrared galaxies -- 12. COBE discovers the cosmic ripples -- 13. The scientific vision
Rowan-Robinson discusses how galaxies, clusters of galaxies, and even larger structures formed in a universe which was initially of almost perfect uniformity and how the recently detected ripples connect with these developments
1. Prologue -- 2. The lure of number -- 3. Thirty years of the new astronomy -- 4. Hubble's law, the cosmological distance ladder and the Big Bang -- 5. The years of building IRAS -- 6. First view of the far infrared sky -- 7. Discovering the power of IRAS -- 8. The microwave background story -- 9. The IRAS dipole and the 'death' of the Great Attractor -- 10. Crisis for cold dark matter? -- 11. From quasars to ultraluminous infrared galaxies -- 12. COBE discovers the cosmic ripples -- 13. The scientific vision
Rowan-Robinson discusses how galaxies, clusters of galaxies, and even larger structures formed in a universe which was initially of almost perfect uniformity and how the recently detected ripples connect with these developments
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