The cosmos: astronomy in the new millennium
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Autor: Pasachoff, Jay M
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BRIEF CONTENTS
Preface xix
1 A Grand Tour of the Heavens 1
2 Light, Matter, and Energy: Powering the Universe 21
3 Light and Telescopes: Extending Our Senses 37
4 Observing the Stars and Planets: Clockwork of the Universe 67
5 Gravitation and Motion: The Early History of Astronomy 95
6 The Terrestrial Planets: Earth, Moon, and Their Relatives 119
7 The Jovian Planets: Windswept Giants 167
8 Pluto, Comets, and Space Debris 197
9 Our Solar System and Others 233
10 Our Stan The Sun 255
11 Stars: Distant Suns 279
12 How the Stars Shine: Cosmic Furnaces 311
13 The Death of Stars: Recycling 331
14 Black Holes: The End of Space and Time 361
15 The Milky Way: Our Home in the Universe 383
16 A Universe of Galaxies 413
17 Quasars and Active Galaxies 451
18 Cosmology: The Birth and Life of the Cosmos 477
19 In the Beginning 509
20 Life in the Universe 541
Epilogue 559
Appendix 1. Measurement Systems 561
Appendix 2. Basic Constants 561
Appendix 3. Planets and Dwarf Planets 562
Appendix 4. The Brightest Stars 564
Appendix 5. The Nearest Stars 566
Appendix 6. The Messier Catalogue 568
Appendix 7. The Constellations 570
Selected Readings 571
UOSSary O/O The constellation Taurus, the Bull, from the 1603 star atlas
Index 585 by Johann Bayer.
CONTENTS
1.4 How Do You Take a Tape Measure to the Stars? 10
1.5 The Value of Astronomy 11
The Grandest Laboratory of All 11
Origins 11
A Closer Look 1.1: A Sense of Scale: Measuring
Distances 12
1.6 What Is Science? 15
1.7 Why Is Science Far Better Than Pseudoscience? 16
LIGHT, MATTER, AND ENERGY: POWERING THE
UNIVERSE 21
2.1 Studying a Star Is Like Looking at a Rainbow 22
Merging star clusters in 30 Doradus, in the Large Magellanic
cloud, imaged with the Hubble space Telescope. 2.2 Blackbodies and Their Radiation 22
Figure It Out 2.1: The Nature of Light 23
Preface xix Figure It Out 2.2: Blackbody Radiation and Wien s
Law 24
Figure It Out 2.3: Blackbody Radiation and the
Stefan-Boltzmann Law 25
A GRAND TOUR OF THE HEAVENS 1
1.1 Peering through the Universe: A Time Machine 2
Figure It Out 1.1: Keeping Track of Space and Time 3
1.2 How Do We Study Things We Can t Touch? 3
Figure It Out 1.2: Scientific Notation 4
1.3 Finding Constellations in the Sky 4
The Autumn Sky 6
The Winter Sky 7
Star Party 1.1: Using the Sky Maps 8
Iti o ) go y 1U An artist s rendering of the Advanced Technology Solar Telescope
The Summer Sky 10 w th *s 4-m-diameter mirror, now being erected on Haleakala,
Maui, Hawaii.
Contents IX
2.3 What Are Those Missing Colors and Where Are
They? 25
2.4 The Story Behind the Bohr Atom 27
2.5 The Doppler Effect and Motion 30
Figure It Out 2.4: Temperature Conversions 31
LIGHT AND TELESCOPES: EXTENDING OUR
SENSES 37
3.1 The First Telescopes for Astronomy 37
3.2 How Do Telescopes Work? 39
3.3 Modern Telescopes 41
Figure It Out 3.1: Light-Gathering Power of a
Telescope 42
Current Large Telescopes Around the World 42
Figure It Out 3.2: Changing Units 45 The frontispiece of Galileo s Dialogo, published in 1632.
The Next Generation of Optical and Infrared
Ground-Based Telescopes 45 Eerie Lunar Eclipses 73
3.4 The Big Picture: Mapping the Sky 46 A Closer Look 4.1: Colors in the Sky 74
3.5 Amateurs Are Participating 48 Glorious Solar Eclipses 74
3.6 Glorious Hubble After Initial Trouble 49 4.3 Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star... 76
3.7 You Can t Look at the Sun at Night 51 4.4 The Concept of Apparent Magnitude 78
3.8 How Can You See the Invisible? 52 Figure It Out 4.1: Using the Magnitude Scale 78
X-ray and Gamma-ray Telescopes 52 4.5 Rising and Setting Stars 80
Telescopes for Ultraviolet Wavelengths 54 A Closer Look 4.2: Photographing the Stars 80
Infrared Telescopes 55 Figure It Out 4.2: Sidereal Time 81
Radio Telescopes 55 4.6 Celestial Coordinates to Label the Sky 81
The Major New Radio Projects 56 4.7 The Reason for the Seasons 82
Figure It Out 3.3: Angular Resolution of a Telescope 57 Star Party 4.2: The Paths of the Moon and Planets 83
A Closer Look 3.1: A Night at Mauna Kea 59 4.8 Time and the International Date Line 85
4.9 Calendars 89
4.10 Keeping Time 90
OBSERVING THE STARS AND PLANETS:
CLOCKWORK OF THE UNIVERSE 67
4.1 The Phases of the Moon and Planets 68 GRAVITATION AND MOTION: THE EARLY HISTORY
4.2 Celestial Spectacles: Eclipses 70 OF ASTRONOMY 95
Star Party 4.1: Observing Total Solar Eclipses 72 5.1 A Brief Survey of the Solar System 95
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THE TERRESTRIAL PLANETS: EARTH, MOON, AND
THEIR RELATIVES 119
6.1 Earth: There s No Place Like Home 120
A Closer Look 6.1: Comparative Data for the Terrestrial
Planets and Their Moons 120
The Earth s Interior 121
A Closer Look 6.2: Density 122
Continental Drift 122
Tides 124
A self-portrait mosaic image of Curiosity, the
lander of NASA s Mars Science Laboratory, with Tpg Faith s AtiïlOSDhere 124
Gale Crater s Mount Sharp at background right.
The Van Allen Belts 127
Star Party 5.1: Prograde and Retrograde Motions 96 6-2 The Moon 127
5.2 The Earth-Centered Astronomy of Ancient Greece 97 The Moon s Appearance 127
5.3 A Heretical Idea: The Sun-Centered Universe 98 The Lunar Surface 130
A Closer Look 5.1: Ptolemaic Terms 98 A Closer Look 6.3: The First People on the Moon 130
Lives in Science 5.1: Copernicus 100 The Lunar Interior 135
5.4 The Keen Eyes of TychoBrahe 101 The Origin of the Moon 135
5.5 Johannes Kepler and His Laws of Orbits 101 Rocks from the Moon 136
Lives in Science 5.2: Tycho Brahe 102 6-3 Mercury 137
Kepler s First Law 103 The Rotation of Mercury 137
Kepler s Second Law 103
A Closer Look 5.2: Kepler s Laws 104
Lives in Science 5.3: Johannes Kepler 104
Kepler s Third Law 105
5.6 The Demise of the Ptolemaic Model: Galileo Galilei 105
Figure It Out 5.1: Kepler s Third Law 106
Lives in Science 5.4: Galileo Galilei 107
5.7 On the Shoulders of Giants: Isaac Newton 108
Star Party 5.2: Galileo s Observations 109
A Closer Look 5.3: Newton s Law of Universal
Gravitation 110
Figure It Out 5.2: Newton s Version of Kepler s Third
Law 110
5.8 Clues to the Formation of Our Solar System 111
Lives in Science 5.5: Isaac Newton 111
Venus s silhouette shows, as do sunspots, in the middle of the six-hour
Figure it Out 5.3: Orbital Speed Of Planets 112 transit of Venus across the face of the Sun on June 5/6, 2012.
Contents XI
Jupiter with the Hubble Space Telescope, a composite
Saturn s moon Titan in front of the planet and its rings, from of an ultraviolet and an infrared image made as part of
NASA s Cassini spacecraft in 2012. one of the authors observations made in 2012 while a
transit of Venus as seen from Jupiter was dimming that
giant planet by 0.01%.
Mercury s History 138
A Closer Look 6.4: Naming the Features of Mercury 139
Mercury Observed from the Earth 139
Spacecraft Views of Mercury 139 THE JOVIAN PLANETS: WINDSWEPT GIANTS 167
Mercury Research Rejuvenated 141 7.1 Jupiter 168
Mercury from MESSENGER 141 A Closer Look 7.1: Comparative Data for the Major
Continuing Exploration of Mercury 143 Worlds 168
6.4 Venus 143 Star Party 7.1: Observing the Giant Planets 169
Transits of Venus 143 Spacecraft to Jupiter 169
The Atmosphere of Venus 144 Figure It Out 7.1: The Size of Jupiter 169
The Rotation of Venus 144 The Great Red Spot 170
Why Is Venus So Incredibly Hot? 145 Jupiter s Atmosphere 170
Spacecraft Observations of Venus s Atmosphere 146 Jupiter s Interior 172
Radar Observations of Venus s Surface 147 Jupiter s Magnetic Field 172
Venus Exploration in the 21st Century 149 Jupiter s Ring 173
6.5 Mars 149 Jupiter s Amazing Satellites 173
Characteristics of Mars 150 A Closer Look 7.2: Jupiter and Its Satellites in Mythology 176
Mars s Surface 151 7.2 Saturn 177
Mars s Atmosphere 152 Saturn s Rings 177
A Closer Look 6.5: Mars Exploration Rovers, Saturn s Atmosphere 179
Mars Phoenix, and Mars Science Lab s Rover Saturn s Interior and Magnetic Field 179
Curiosity 155 Saturn s Moon Titan 181
Mars s Satellites 157 A Closer Look 7.3: Saturn s Satellites in Mythology 181
The Search for Life on Mars 157 A Closer Look 7.4: Saturn s Rings and Moons from
Crewed Missions to Mars 160 Cassini 183
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PLUTO, COMETS, AND SPACE DEBRIS 197
8.1 Pluto 198
Pluto s Mass and Size 198
Pluto s Atmosphere 200
The shadow of the Moon surrounds the eclipsed Sun What Is PlutO? 201
8.2 Kuiper-Belt Objects and Dwarf Planets 202
in this view from a helicopter, above an Australian
cloud-deck, of the 2012 total solar eclipse; we see
the solar corona surrounding the dark silhouette of A Closer Look 8.1: Dwarf Planets 202
the Moon.
8.3 Comets 204
Saturn s Other Satellites 184 The Composition of Comets 205
7.3 Uranus 184 The Origin and Evolution of Comets 206
Uranus s Atmosphere 185 Halley s Comet 207
Uranus s Rings 185 Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 209
A Closer Look 7.5: Uranus and Neptune in Recent|V0bserved Comets 210
Mythology 185 Spacecraft to Comets 210
Uranus s Interior and Magnetic Field 187 A Closer Look 8.2: Deep Impact 214
7.4 Neptune 187 8-4 Meteoroids 215
Neptune s Atmosphere 188 Types and Sizes of Meteorites 215
Neptune s Interior and Magnetic Field 189 A closer Look 8-3: February 15,2013 - An Exploding
Neptune s Rings 190 Meteor; A Nearby Asteroid 216
Neptune s Moon Triton 190 Meteor Showers 218
A Closer Look 7.6: Naming the Rings of Neptune 192 A Closer Look 8.4: Meteor Showers 218
7.5 The Formation of the Giant Planets 192 8-5 Asteroids 219
General Properties of Asteroids 219
Star Party 8.1: Observing a Meteor Shower 220
A Closer Look 8.5: The Extinction of the Dinosaurs 220
Asteroids Viewed Close Up 222
Near-Earth Objects 223
A Closer Look 8.6: Images from Curiosity on Mars 231
OUR SOLAR SYSTEM AND OTHERS 233
9.1 The Formation of the Solar System 234
Collapse of a Cloud 234
Models of Planet Formation 235
The asteroid (4) Vesta, a mosaic of the highest-resolution images 9.2 Extra-SOlar Planets (Exoplanets) 236
from NASA s Dawn spacecraft, which is now en route to (1) Ceres.
Contents xlii
10.3 The Sun and the Theory of Relativity 270
Lives in Science 10.1: Albert Einstein 271
A Closer Look 10.2: Solar Eclipses of 2013 277
STARS: DISTANT SUNS 279
11.1 Colors, Temperatures, and Spectra of Stars 280
Taking a Star s Temperature 280
How Do We Classify Stars? 281
The diamond ring effect along with reddish chromosphere
and prominences mark the end of the 2012 total solar The Coolest Stars 282
eclipse observed from Australia. _. _ ___
11.2 How Distant Are the Stars? 282
Asimmetrie Method 237 Figure It Out 11.1: Stellar Triangulation 284
T,ming of Radio Pulsars 237 1U How Powerful Are the Stars? 285
D -a- n i e^^ tu n i m uui ivi xU a oo 7 A Closer Look 11.1: Using Absolute Magnitudes 286
Periodic Doppler Shifts: The Doppler-Wobble Method 237 5 6
T ..¦ ¦ m . T. m. , ,, ,. , 0/m Figure It Out 11.2: The Inverse-Square Law 286
Transitioning Planets: The Blink Method 240 s H
r,. ,, (c , , 0/1/1 11.4 Temperature-Luminosity Diagrams 287
Direct Imaging of Exoplanets 244 k # «¦
Gravitational Microlensing 244 Figure It Out 11.3: A Star s Luminosity 289
9.3 The Nature of Exoplanet Systems 244 A Closer Look 1U: Proxima Centauri: The Nearest Star
9.4 Goldilocks Planets 246 Beyond the Sun 289
9.5 Brown Dwarfs 246 1U How Do Stars Move? 290
9.6 Planetary Systems in Formation 246 Proper Motions of Stars 290
Radial Velocities of Stars 290
11.6 Social Stars : Binaries 292
Pairs of Stars and Their Uses 292
OUR STAR: THE SUN 255
10.1 What Is the Sun s Basic Structure? 256
The Photosphere 257
A Closer Look 10.1: The Most Common Elements in the
Sun s Photosphere 258
The Chromosphere 259
The Corona 260
The Scientific Value of Eclipses 265
10.2 Sunspots and Other Solar Activity 265
What Are Those Blemishes on the Sun? 265
Star Party 10.1: Observing Sunspots 266
The Solar-Activity Cycle 267
Fireworks On the Sun, and Space Weather 269 A view of the Sun in the extreme ultraviolet part of the spectrum,
Filaments and Prominences 269 showing million-degree §as held in ?lace b*the solar ™gnetic field-
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Figure ItOut 11.4: Doppler Shifts 293 Isotopes 318
Figure It Out 11.5: Binary Stars 294 Radioactivity and Neutrinos 319
A Closer Look 11.3: A Sense of Mass: Weighing Stars 297 12.4 Stars Shining Brightly 320
How Do We Weigh Stars? 297 12.5 Why Stars Shine 320
The Mass-Luminosity Relation 297 12.6 Brown Dwarfs 321
Figure It Out 11.6: The Mass-Luminosity Relation 298 12.7 The Solar-Neutrino Experiment 322
11.7 Stars That Don t Shine Steadily 298 Initial Measurements 322
11.8 Clusters of Stars 300 Further Solar-Neutrino Experiments 323
Open and Globular Star Clusters 300 Beyond Solar Neutrinos 324
A Closer Look 11.4: Star Clusters in Our Galaxy 302 12.8 The End States of Stars 325
How Old Are Star Clusters? 303
A Closer Look 11.5: How We Measure Basic Stellar
Parameters 305
THE DEATH OF STARS: RECYCLING 331
13.1 The Death of the Sun 332
Red Giants 332
HOW THE STARS SHINE: COSMIC Planetary Nebulae 333
FURNACES 311 White Dwarfs 334
12.1 Starbirth 312 Summary of the Sun s Evolution 336
Collapse of a Cloud 312 Binary Stars and Novae 336
The Birth Cries of Stars 314 13.2 Supernovae: Stellar Fireworks! 337
12.2 Where Stars Get Their Energy 317 Core-Collapse Supernovae 338
12.3 Atoms and Nuclei 317 White-Dwarf Supernovae (Type la) 339
Figure It Out 12.1: Energy Generation in the Sun 318 Observing Supernovae 341
Subatomic Particles 318 Supernova Remnants 343
Supernovae and Us 343
Supernova 1987A! 343
A Closer Look 13.1: Searching for Supernovae 344
Cosmic Rays 348
13.3 Pulsars: Stellar Beacons 349
Neutron Stars 349
The Discovery of Pulsars 349
What Are Pulsars? 350
The Crab, Pulsars, and Supernovae 351
An optical and x-ray composite image of a supernova Slowing Pulsars and Fast Pulsars 352
remnant, incorporating Hubble Space Telescope images
showing the pink optical sheii surrounding the x-ray Binary Pulsars and Gravitational Waves 352
images, shown in blue and green, from the Chandra a pulcoi- wl+h a Planof ^R
X-ray Observatory. The supernova came from a supergiant
star that exploded (Type la) 400 years ago in the Large X-ray Binaries 355
Magellanic Cloud. The bubble is 23 light-years across.
Contents XV
15.7 Our Pinwheel Galaxy 397
15.8 Why Does Our Galaxy Have Spiral Arms? 397
BLACK HOLES: THE END OF SPACE AND 159 Matter Between the Stars 399
TIME 361 15.10 Radio Observations of Our Galaxy 400
14.1 The Formation of a Stellar-Mass Black Hole 362 15.11 Mapping Our Galaxy 401
14.2 The Photon Sphere 362 15.12 Radio Spectral Lines from Molecules 403
14.3 The Event Horizon 363 15.13 The Formation of Stars 403
A Newtonian Argument 363 15.14 Ata Radio Observatory 406
Black Holes in General Relativity 364
14.4 Time Dilation 364
14.5 Properties of Black Holes 365
A UNIVERSE OF GALAXIES 413
16.1 The Discovery of Galaxies 414
Rotating Black Holes 365
Measuring Black-Hole Spin 366
14.6 Passageways to Distant Lands? 367 The Shapley-Curtis Debate 414
14.7 Detecting a Black Hole 367 Galaxies: Island Universes 416
Hot Accretion Disks 367 16-2 Types of Galaxies 417
CygnusX-1: The First Plausible Stellar-Mass Black Spiral Galaxies 417
^0ie 3gg Elliptical Galaxies 420
Other Black-Hole Candidates 369 Other Galaxy Types 421
Figure It Out 14.1: Binary Stars and Kepler s Third Law 369
The Strange Case of SS433 370
14.8 Supermassive Black Holes 371 Superclusters of Galaxies 424
16.3 Habitats of Galaxies 421
Clusters of Galaxies 422
14.9 Moderation in All Things 373
Star Party 16.1: Observing Galaxies 425
14.10 Gamma-ray Bursts: Birth Cries of Black Holes? 374 16-4 The Dark Side of Matter 428
How Far Away Are Gamma-ray Bursts? 374 The Rotation Curve of the Milky Way Galaxy 428
Models of Gamma-ray Bursts 375 Dark Matter Everywhere 428
14.11 Mini Black Holes 376
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UNIVERSE 383
15.1 Our Galaxy: The Milky Way 384
15.2 The Illusion That We Are at the Center 384
Star Party 15.1: Observing the Milky Way 386
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15.4 The Parts of Our Galaxy 388
15 5 The Center Of Our GalaXV 391 with the Hubble Space Telescope. The galaxies are actually
separated by a distance ten times that of our galaxy from the
15.6 All-Sky Maps Of Our Galaxy 393 Andromeda galaxy and are about 140 million light-years from us.
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Figure It Out 16.1: Calculating the Mass from the Rotation Hubble s Law 479
Curve 429 Expansion Without a Center 480
What Is Dark Matter? 430 What Is Actually Expanding? 482
16.5 Gravitational Lensing 430 18.3 The Age of the Universe 483
16.6 The Birth and Life of Galaxies 433 Finding Out How Old 483
16.7 The Expanding Universe 434 The Quest for Hubble s Constant 483
Figure It Out 16.2: Redshifts and Hubble s Law 436 Figure It Out 18.1: The Hubble Time 484
Figure It Out 16.3: Using Hubble s Law to Determine A Key Project of the Hubble Space Telescope 485
Distances 436 Deviations from Uniform Expansion 487
16.8 The Search for the Most Distant Galaxies 437 Type la Supernovae as Cosmological Yardsticks 489
Figure It Out 16.4: Relativists Effects 437 18.4 The Geometry and Fate of the Universe 490
16.9 The Evolution of Galaxies 440 The Cosmological Principle: Uniformity 490
16.10 Evolution of Large-Scale Structure 443 No Cosmological Constant ? 490
Three Kinds of Possible Universes 491
Figure It Out 18.2: The Critical Density and nM 492
Two-Dimensional Analogues 493
QUASARS AND ACTIVE GALAXIES 451 What Kind of Universe Do We Live In? 493
17.1 Active Galactic Nuclei 452 A Closer Look 18.1: Finite Flat and Hyperbolic
17.2 Quasars: Denizens of the Distant Past 454 Universes 495
The Discovery of Quasars 454 Obstacles Along the Way 495
Puzzling Spectra 455 18.5 Measuring the Expected Deceleration 496
The Nature of the Redshift 456 The High-Redshift Hubble Diagram 497
17.3 How Are Quasars Powered? 458 Type la (White-Dwarf) Supernovae 497
A Big Punch from a Tiny Volume 458 An Accelerating Universe! 498
What Is the Energy Source? 458 Einstein s Biggest Blunder? 499
Accretion Disks and Jets 459 Dark Energy 500
17.4 What Are Quasars? 460 The Cosmic Jerk 501
17.5 Are We Being Fooled? 462 18.6 The Future of the Universe 502
17.6 Finding Supermassive Black Holes 464
Figure It Out 17.1: The Central Mass in a Galaxy 465
17.7 The Effects of Beaming 467
17.8 Probes of the Universe 470
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COSMOLOGY: THE BIRTH AND LIFE OF THE
COSMOS 477
181 Olbers S Paradox 478 A cluster of êalaxies 4-5 billion light-years away,
in a Hubble Space Telescope survey that is mapping
18.2 An Expanding Universe 479 dark matter.
Contents XVII
Successes of Inflation 532
The Ultimate Free Lunch? 532
Figure It Out 19.2: Heisenberg^ Uncertainty
Principle 533
19.6 A Universe of Universes 533
19.7 A Universe Finely Tuned for Life? 534
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The Hubble Space Telescope s extreme Deep Field (XDF),
a small patch of sky at the center of the Hubble Ultra
Deep Field assembled from 10 years of observations. 20 1 The Origin Of Life 543
20.2 Life in the Solar System 544
20.3 Suitable Stars for Intelligent Life 544
m Tur nroiuiiiiin mn 20.4 The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence 545
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Figure It Out 20.1: Interstellar Travel and Einsteins
Relativity 546
20.5 Communicating with Extraterrestrials 549
20.6 The Statistics of Intelligent Extraterrestrial
Life 550
The Drake Equation 550
Where Is Everyone? 551
Figure It Out 20.2: The Drake Equation 553
20.7 UFOs and the Scientific Method 553
UFOs 554
Of Truth and Theories 554
20.8 Conclusion 555
19.1 The Steady-State Theory 510
19.2 The Cosmic Microwave Radiation 511
A Faint Hiss from All Directions 511
Origin of the Microwave Radiation 512
19.3 Deviations from Isotropy 513
Ripples in the Cosmic Microwave Background 513
The Overall Geometry of the Universe 515
The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) 516
A Closer Look 19.1: Planck Maps the Cosmic Background
Radiation 518
Ground-Based Telescopes for the Cosmic Background
Radiation 521
The Planck Spacecraft 521 Epilogue 559
19.4 The Early Universe 522 Appendix 1. Measurement Systems 561
Going Back in Time 522 Appendix 2. Basic Constants 561
A Brief History of the Early Universe 522 Appendix 3. Planets and Dwarf Planets 562
Primordial Nucleosynthesis 525 Appendix 4. The Brightest Stars 564
19.5 The Inflationary Universe 526 Appendix 5. The Nearest Stars 566
Problems with the Original Big-Bang Model 526 Appendix 6. The Messier Catalogue 568
Inflation to the Rescue 527 Appendix 7. The Constellations 570
Forces in the Universe 528 Selected Readings 571
Figure It Out 19.1: Inflation of the Early Universe 529 Glossary 575
Supercooling the Universe 531 Index 585
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