Format:
XIV, 330 S.
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Ill., Kt.
ISBN:
9781486300754
,
1486300758
Content:
"This book tells the story of the Mt Stromlo Observatory in Canberra which began with W.G. Duffield's idealism and vision in 1905. The Observatory began life as a government department, later becoming an optical munitions factory producing gun sights and telescopes during the Second World War, before changing its focus to astrophysics--the new astronomy. In the ensuing years programs were introduced to push the Observatory in new directions at the international frontiers of astronomy. The astronomers built new, better and larger telescopes to unravel the secrets of the universe. There were controversies, exciting new discoveries and new explanations of phenomena that had been discovered. The Observatory and its researchers have contributed to determining how old the universe is, participated in the largest survey of galaxies in the universe, and helped to show us that the universal expansion is accelerating--research that led to Brian Schmidt and his international team being awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics. These and other major discoveries are detailed in this fascinating book about one of the great observatories in the world."--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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A beginning in the bushA bush observatory -- Caretaker -- Second World War : the observatory becomes an optical munitions factory -- The change master -- The astronomical godfather -- A life on the dome floor -- An astronomical entrepreneur -- An instrumentalist and the MACHO project -- Masters of the universe -- Bushfires and a new beginning -- Stromlo fellows and a Nobel Prize -- Brian Schmidt's Nobel Lecture 2011 : accelerating expansion of the universe through observations of distant supernovae.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781486300761
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781486300778
Language:
English
Keywords:
Canberra
;
Sternwarte
;
Geschichte
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