Heading Downstream and Cooking by Starlight
The visible night sky is full of bright stars. Viewed from very dark locations, literally thousands of them are visible, and it is easy to pick out the Milky Way in the sky. This band of stars, so many that they make up a continuous milky glow, is our vie
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Steve Miller
The Chemical Cosmos A Guided Tour
Steve Miller Department of Science and Technology Studies University College London Gower Street, WC1E 6BT London, UK [email protected]
ISBN 978-1-4419-8443-2 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-8444-9 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-8444-9 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2011937447 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
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Acknowledgements This book was largely written whilst I was on sabbatical leave from University College London (UCL) in 2009 at the Institute for Astronomy (IfA) in Hilo, Hawaii. So I would like to thank my Dean at UCL, Professor Richard Catlow, and Professor Alan Tokunaga, Director of the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility and my host at the IfA. Professor Bob Joseph, also of the IfA, introduced me to Hawaii and infrared astronomical observing, and shared much of his great enthusiasm for both with me. Over my 25 years at UCL, it has been an enormous pleasure to work with some great friends and colleagues in both the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Department of Science and Technology Studies, and their support and encouragement in my various enterprises is much appreciated. Professor David Williams (UCL), Dr Tom Stallard (University of Leicester) and Dr Declan Fahy (American University, Washington) all read various versions of the book, and their insightful and helpful comments have improved it enormously. (The faults remain mine, however.) I would like to thank the editorial team at Springer – Jessica Fricchione and Harry Blom – for their advice and patience. Above all, this book has been inspired by the work of Professor Jonathan Tennyson (UCL) and Professor Takeshi Oka (University of Chicago). Long may it continue.
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Contents Acknowledgements...................................................................
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Purple Haze: Introducing Our Guide.................................
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The Early Universe: The Source of Chemistry – and of Our Guide ................................................................
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Shooting the Rapids: The Life and Death of the Earliest Stars.
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