PDF-(EBOOK)-Cosmic Odyssey: How Intrepid Astronomers at Palomar Observatory Changed our View

From newborn galaxies to icy worlds and blazing quasars a behindthescenes story of how Palomar Observatory astronomers unveiled our complex universeEver since 1936 pioneering scientists at Palomar Observatory in Southern California have pushed against the boundaries of the known universe making a series of dazzling discoveries that changed our view of the cosmos quasars colliding galaxies supermassive black holes brown dwarfs supernovae dark matter the neverending expansion of the universe and much more In Cosmic Odyssey astronomer Linda Schweizer tells the story of the men and women at Palomar and their efforts to decipher the vast energies and mysterious processes that govern our universePalomar was the Apollo mission of its era The first images from the 200inch George Ellery Hale telescope commissioned in 1948 as the worlds largest generated as much excitement as images from the moon in 1969 and from the Hubble Space Telescope more recently So far Palomars Big Eye and three other telescopes have yielded more than 75000 telescopenights of precious data Schweizer takes readers behind the scenes of scientific discovery mapping the often chaotic process of detours dead ends and serendipitous leaps of insight Although her focus is on Palomar she follows threads of discovery across the world to other teams and observatories Based on more than one hundred interviews and enhanced by research in scientific journals her account paints a fascinating picture of how discrete insights acquired over decades by researchers in a global community cascade collide and finally coalesce into the discoveries we come to accept as facts. & Large scale structure. Tarun Souradeep. I.U.C.A.A. .. Cosmology . IUCAA . VSP program. (. May 18-22, . 2012). Lec. . 2:. Cosmic Content. Perturbed Universe . Simple. … yet, an . exotic. & Large scale structure. Tarun Souradeep. I.U.C.A.A. .. Cosmology . IUCAA . VSP program. (. May 18-22, . 2012). Lec. . . 4:. Current frontiers. Mildly Perturbed universe at z=1100. Present universe at z=0. Topic. Essential Question. How did the view of the universe change during the Scientific Revolution?. Essential Question. Who was Ptolemy and what did he believe about the universe?. Ancient Greco-Roman astrologer & astronomer. The stars and other objects in space are very far from Earth. Only a few solar system objects are close enough to be explored with probes. . Astronomers rely on electromagnetic waves to gain information about the universe.. & Large scale structure. Tarun Souradeep. I.U.C.A.A. .. Cosmology . IUCAA . VSP program. (. May 18-22, . 2012). Lec. . 2:. Cosmic Content. Perturbed Universe . Simple. … yet, an . exotic. By: Meagan Partridge and Jeffrey . Oravic. Mount Palomar Observatory. N San Diego County, CA. California Institute of Technology. 200-in Hale Telescope. 48-in Samuel . Oschin. . Telescope. 60-in Telescope. From geocentric to heliocentric and beyond. By brain . cannon, . 1. st. Period PLTW. Earth-centered universe. Sun-centered universe. Forward Thinking. “. By . taking our sense of sight far beyond the realm of our forebears' imagination, these wonderful instruments, the telescopes, open the way to a deeper and more perfect understanding of nature. The universe is the sum of all energy, matter, space and time.. But there. ’. s a difference between the universe we see (the observable universe) . and the universe as it really exists.. This gets complicated….. Evidence for the Big Bang Theory. Learning Goal:. By the end of this lesson, you will be able to explain three pieces of evidence for the Big Bang Theory: . Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation. Redshift of galaxies. 2nd Millennium BCE. BC. . . Mesopotamian cosmology . has a flat,circular Earth enclosed in a cosmic Ocean. 12. th. century BCE. C. . Rigveda. has some cosmological hymns, most notably the Nasadiya Sukta. Older ….. larger … colder ….less energetic. now. Big Bang. Prediction of Cosmic Microwave Background radiation. λ. emitted. = 1 . μ. m. T. emitted. = 3000 K. R. observed . = 1000. R. emitted. Universe exist Things might have been in countless ways different So why is the Universe as it is These questions some believe may have causal answers Suppose first that the Universe has alway Back to the Beginning: Big Bang. . Misnomer. ! . . Expansion not explosion. No center or edges: . isotropic and homogeneous. . Redshift of galaxies and nuclei of galaxies with active black holes . Witty and thought provoking, two Vatican astronomers shed provocative light on some of the strange places where religion and science meet.Imagine if a Martian showed up, all big ears and big nose like a child\'s drawing, and he asked to be baptized. How would you react? - Pope Francis, May, 2014Pope Francis posed that question - without insisting on an answer! - to provoke deeper reflection about inclusiveness and diversity in the Church. But it\'s not the first time that question has been asked.Brother Guy Consolmagno and Father Paul Mueller hear questions like that all the time. They\'re scientists at the Vatican Observatory, the official astronomical research institute of the Catholic Church. In Would You Baptize an Extraterrestrial? they explore a variety of questions at the crossroads of faith and reason: How do you reconcile the The Big Bang with Genesis? Was the Star of Bethlehem just a pious religious story or an actual description of astronomical events? What really went down between Galileo and the Catholic Church - and why do the effects of that confrontation still reverberate to this day? Will the Universe come to an end? And... could you really baptize an extraterrestrial?With disarming humor, Brother Guy and Father Paul explore these questions and more over the course of six days of dialogue. Would You Baptize an Extraterrestrial will make you laugh, make you think, and make you reflect more deeply on science, faith, and the nature of the universe.