Description: First Light : Switching on Stars at the Dawn of Time, Paperback by Chapman, Emma, ISBN 147296294X, ISBN-13 9781472962942, Brand New, Free shipping in the US
First Light opens a window into a previously dark and secret time in our Universes history – the time when the first starts were born.
Astronomers have successfully observed a great deal of the Universes history, from recording the afterglow of the Big Bang to imaging thousands of galaxies, and even to visualising an actual black hole. Theres a lot for astronomers to be smug about. But when it comes to understanding how the Universe began and grew up we are literally in the dark ages. In effect, we are missing the first one billion years from the timeline of the Universe.
This brief but far-reaching period in the Universes history, known to astrophysicists as the Epoch of Reionisation, represents the start of the cosmos as we experience it today. The time when the very first stars burst into life, when darkness gave way to light. After hundreds of millions of years of dark, uneventful expansion, one by the one these stars suddenly came into being. This was the point at which the chaos of the Big Bang first began to yield to the order of galaxies, black holes and stars, kick-starting the pathway to planets, to comets, to moons, and to life itself.
Incorporating the very latest research into this branch of astrophysics, this book sheds light on this time of darkness, telling the story of these first stars, hundreds of times the size of the Sun and a million times brighter, lonely giants that lived fast and died young in powerful explosions that seeded the Universe with the heavy elements that we are made of. Emma Chapman tells us how these stars formed, why they were so unusual, and what they can teach us about the Universe today. She also offers a first-hand look at the immense telescopes about to come on line to peer into the past, searching for the echoes and footprints of these stars, to take this period in the Universes history from the realm of theoretical physics towards the wonder of observational astronomy.
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Book Title: First Light : Switching on Stars at the Dawn of Time
Number of Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Item Height: 1 in
Publication Year: 2022
Topic: Physics / Astrophysics, Cosmology, Astronomy
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Science
Item Weight: 8.1 Oz
Item Length: 7.7 in
Author: Emma Chapman
Item Width: 5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
