Beyond the range of optical perception-and of ordinary imaginings--a new and violent universe lay undetected until the advent of space exploration. Supernovae, black holes, quasars and pulsars--these were the secrets of the highenergy world revealed when, for the first time, astronomers attached their instruments to rockets and lofted them beyond the earth's x-ray-absorbing atmosphere. The X-Ray Universe is the story of these explorations and the fantastic new science they brought into being.
- ISBN13 9780674594449
- Publish Date 1 January 1985
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Harvard University Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 201
- Language English
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