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Chargement... Chandra's Cosmos: Dark Matter, Black Holes, and Other Wonders Revealed by NASA's Premier X-Ray Observatory (2017)par Wallace H. Tucker
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Het boek beschrijft de resultaten van Röntgensateliet Chandra. De foto's zijn mooi, maar het verhaal is niet altijd overtuigend. Zo probeert de auteur aan te tonen dat er donkere massa en donkere energie bestaat, maar hij geeft geen echt bewijs. Ook verder in het boek is de taal vaak beschriijvend, maar je moet een ingewijde zijn om de achterliggende gegevens te kennen. ( ) This book is fascinating, mind-blowing, even awe inspiring, and I think with color photos it will be gorgeous as well (my review copy's images are black and white). Author Wallace H Tucker has done a good job of bridging the gap between astrophysicist and interested layperson, making difficult material easier to grasp for non-scientists who hope to understand the latest information about black holes, dark matter and their ilk. I really appreciate the author's use of analogies to make some of the information more vivid and accessible. For instance, he describes the immense power produced by spinning supermassive black holes by saying it is as if an energy source the size of a blueberry could heat a gas cloud the size of Earth to millions of degrees Celsius. Later in that same chapter, Black Hole Feedback, he puts a particular sound wave in perspective by saying it could be translated to the note of B-flat, but a B-flat that is 57 octaves lower than the middle C on a piano. The book does require some concentration to read, but it isn’t massive intimidating tome. My copy has just 238 pages of text, and many of the chapters are under 10 pages making them easier to follow. I read a free advanced review copy of this book. Review opinions are mine. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
On July 23, 1999, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, the most powerful X-ray telescope ever built, was launched aboard the space shuttle Columbia. Since then, Chandra has given us a view of the universe that is largely hidden from telescopes sensitive only to visible light. In Chandra's Cosmos, the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's Chandra science spokesperson Wallace H. Tucker uses a series of short, connected stories to describe the telescope's exploration of the hot, high-energy face of the universe. The book is organized in three parts: "The Big," covering the cosmic web, dark energy, dark matter, and massive clusters of galaxies; "The Bad," exploring neutron stars, stellar black holes, and supermassive black holes; and "The Beautiful," discussing stars, exoplanets, and life. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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