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CosmicFire--From Black Holes to Intergalactiv SpaceThe X-Ray Universe: The Quest for Cosmic Fire--From Black Holes to Intergalactic Space by Wallace Tucker and Riccardo Giacconi. (1985, Hardcover).

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Product Identifiers

PublisherHarvard University Press

ISBN-100674962850

ISBN-139780674962859

eBay Product ID (ePID)506506

Product Key Features

Book TitleX-Ray Universe

Number of Pages196 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1985

TopicPhysics / Astrophysics, Astronomy

IllustratorYes

GenreScience

AuthorRiccardo Giacconi, Wallace Tucker

Book SeriesHarvard Books on Astronomy

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Weight22.4 Oz

Item Length9.8 in

Item Width7.9 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN84-015654

Dewey Edition19

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Decimal522/.686

SynopsisThe X-Ray Universe is the story of these explorations and the fantastic new science they brought into being. It is a first-hand account: Riccardo Giacconi is one of the principal pioneers of the field, and Wallace Tucker is a theorist who worked closely with him at many critical periods., Beyond the range of optical perception--and of ordinary imaginings--a new and violent universe lay undetected until the advent of space exploration. Supernovae, black holes, quasars and pulsars--these were the secrets of the highenergy world revealed when, for the first time, astronomers attached their instruments to rockets and lofted them beyond the earth's x-ray-absorbing atmosphere. The X-Ray Universe is the story of these explorations and the fantastic new science they brought into being. It is a first-hand account: Riccardo Giacconi is one of the principal pioneers of the field, and Wallace Tucker is a theorist who worked closely with him at many critical periods. The book carries the reader from the early days of the Naval Research Laboratory through the era of V-2 rocketry, Sputnik, and the birth of NASA, to the launching of the Einstein X-Ray Observatory. But this is by no means just a history. Behind the suspenseful, sometimes humorous details of human personality grappling with high technology lies a sophisticated exposition of current cosmology and astrophysics, from the rise and fall of the steady-state theory to the search for the missing mass of the universe.

LC Classification NumberQB472.T83 1985