The New Astronomy: Opening the Electromagnetic Window and Expanding Our View of Planet Earth
This unique work celebrates the 60th birthday of Professor Woodruff Sullivan III (University of Washington, Seattle). The ‘Woodfest’ conference attracted some of the world’s leading astrobiologists and historians of astronomy, so it is no surprise this bo
- PDF / 6,563,900 Bytes
- 345 Pages / 453.543 x 680.315 pts Page_size
- 85 Downloads / 208 Views
ASTROPHYSICS AND SPACE SCIENCE LIBRARY VOLUME 334
EDITORIAL BOARD Chairman W.B. BURTON, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.A. ([email protected]); University of Leiden, The Netherlands ([email protected]) Executive Committee J. M. E. KUIJPERS, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands E. P. J. VAN DEN HEUVEL, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands H. VAN DER LAAN, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands MEMBERS J. N. BAHCALL, The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, U.S.A. F. BERTOLA, University of Padua, Italy J. P. CASSINELLI, University of Wisconsin, Madison, U.S.A. C. J. CESARSKY, European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany O. ENGVOLD, University of Oslo, Norway A. HECK, Strassbourg Astronomical Observatory, France R. McCRAY, University of Colorado, Boulder, U.S.A. P. G. MURDIN, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, U.K. F. PACINI, Istituto Astronomia Arcetri, Firenze, Italy V. RADHAKRISHNAN, Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India K. SATO, School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan F. H. SHU, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A. B. V. SOMOV, Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University, Russia R. A. SUNYAEV, Space Research Institute, Moscow, Russia Y. TANAKA, Institute of Space & Astronautical Science, Kanagawa, Japan S. TREMAINE, Princeton University, U.S.A. N. O. WEISS, University of Cambridge, U.K.
THE NEW ASTRONOMY: OPENING THE ELECTROMAGNETIC WINDOW AND EXPANDING OUR VIEW OF PLANET EARTH A Meeting to Honor Woody Sullivan on his 60th Birthday
Edited by WAYNE ORCHISTON Anglo-Australian Observatory, Sydney, Australia
A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.
ISBN-10 ISBN-10 ISBN-13 ISBN-13
1-4020-3723-6 (HB) 1-4020-3724-4 (e-book) 978-1-4020-3723-8 (HB) 978-1-4020-3724-5 (e-book) Published by Springer, P.O. Box 17, 3300 AA Dordrecht, The Netherlands.
www.springeronline.com
Cover credit: Cosmic evolution is depicted in this image from the exobiology program at NASA Ames. Upper left: the formation of the stars, the production of heavy elements, and the formation of planetary systems, including our own. At left: prebiotic molecules, RNA and DNA are formed within the first billion years on the primitive Earth. At center: the origin and evolution of life leads to increasing complexity, culminating in intelligence, technology, and astronomers. Upper right: contemplating the Universe. The image was created by David DesMarias, Thomas Scattergood and Linda Jahnke at NASA Ames in 1986, and reissued in 1997.
Printed on acid-free paper
springeronline.com All Rights Reserved © 2005 Springer No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work.
Data Loading...
