Our Universe: An Astronomer’s Guide

312 Pages·2019·2.711 MB·English

by  Jo Dunkley

OUR UNIVERSE
JO DUNKLEY
Our Universe
An Astronomer’s Guide
A PELICAN BOOK
PELICAN
an imprint of
PENGUIN BOOKS
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O U R
U N I V E R S E
AN ASTRONOMER’S GUIDE
JO DUNKLEY
THE BELKNAP PRESS OF
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS
2019
Copyright © Jo Dunkley, 2019
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
Originally published in 2019 in the United Kingdom by Pelican
Book design by Matthew Young
Set in 11/16.15 pt FreightText Pro
Typeset by Jouve (UK), Milton Keynes
Books, an imprint of Penguin Books
First Harvard University Press edition, 2019
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data is available
from the Library of Congress
ISBN 978-0-674-98428-8 (cloth : alk. paper)
For my girls.

Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ix
INTRODUCTION 1
CHAPTER 1
19
Our Place in Space
CHAPTER 2
77
We Are Made of Stars
CHAPTER 3
137
Seeing the Invisible
CHAPTER 4
179
The Nature of Space
CHAPTER 5
231
From Start to Finish
EPILOGUE: LOOKING FORWARD 273
EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES AND FURTHER READING 279
INDEX 289