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Автор: Andrew Cohen
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      For Mum, Dad and Sandra – none of this would have been possible without you

       Brian Cox

      For my dad, Geof Cohen (1943–2007)

       Andrew Cohen

      Wonders of the Universe

      Professor Brian Cox & Andrew Cohen

      Copyright

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      Contents

      Copyright

      Introduction

      The Universe

      Chapter 1

      Messengers

       The Story of Light

       Our place in the Universe

       Our galactic neighbourhood

       Mapping the Milky Way Galaxy

       The shape of our galaxy

       A star is born

       What is Light?

       Young’s double-slit experiment

       Messengers from across the ocean of space

       Chasing the speed of light

       The search for a cosmic clock

       Speed limits

       Time Travel

       To the dawn of time

       Finding Andromeda

       The Hubble Telescope

       Hubble’s most important image

       All the colours of the rainbow

       Hubble expansion

       Redshift

       The Birth of the Universe

       Visible light

       Picturing the past

       First sight

      Chapter 2

      Stardust

       The Origins of Being

       The cycle of life

       Mapping the night sky

       Stellar nurseries

       How to find exoplanets

       The orgins of life

       The Periodic Table

       The universal chemistry set

       What are stars made of?

       The Early Universe

       El Tatio Geysers, Chile

       The Big Bang

       Sub-atomic particles

       Timeline of the Universe: The Big Bang to the present

       Matter by numbers

       The most powerful explosion on Earth

       From Big Bang to Sunshine: The First Stars

       Red giant

       Star death

       Planetary nebulae

       The rarest of all