Shrouds of the night: masks of the Milky Way and the awesome new view of galaxies

The Milky Way has captivated the mind of multitudes ever since the beginning of time. Particularly striking are its apparent dusty gaping voids. With the advent of near-infrared technology, astronomers have discovered an awesome new view of its structure, and of the structure of other galaxies around us. Galaxies are encased within Shrouds of the Night: shrouds or veils of cosmic dust,which have given us a totally incomplete picture of what our majestic Universe actually looks like. In this book, we feature some of the remarkable early photographic work of masters such as Isaac Roberts and Edward Barnard, before presenting to the reader the unmasked (dust penetrated) view of our cosmos, usingsome of the world’s largest ground and space-based telescopes. A lot of historical material which has never been published before – such as material from the Lowell Observatory in Arizona and the archives of the Royal Astronomical Society of London Pioneering astronomical photographs by Roberts, Barnard, Keeler and others. Many of these will be made available to the general public for the first time

• ISBN: 978-0-387-78974-3
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 400
• Fecha Publicación: 01/10/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés