<p>How did life originate? Is there life beyond Earth? What is the future of life on our planet? The rapidly growing multidisciplinary field of astrobiology deals with life's big questions. This text harnesses the authors' two decades' experience of teaching acclaimed courses in astrobiology, and adopts a novel quantitative approach toward this emergent discipline. It details the physical principles and chemical processes that have shaped the origins and distribution of molecules, stars, planets, and hence habitable environments, life, and intelligence in the Universe. By synthesising insights from domains as diverse as astronomy and physics to microbiology, biochemistry and geology, the authors provide a cutting-edge summary of astrobiology, and show how answers to many fundamental questions are drawing closer than ever. Geared towards advanced undergraduates and graduate students in the physical sciences, the text contains more than 150 innovative problems designed to enhance students' knowledge and understanding.</p>

From Stars to Life: A Quantitative Approach to Astrobiology

Science & Math

Lingam, Manasvi

Balbi, Amedeo

Astronomy & Space Science

Cambridge University Press

Cosmicomic: Enquête(s) sur les traces du Big Bang

NOUVEAU MONDE

<p>The cosmic microwave background radiation is the afterglow of the big bang: a tenuous signal, more than 13 billion years old, which carries the answers to many of the questions about the nature of our Universe. It was serendipitously discovered in 1964, and thoroughly investigated in the last four decades by a large number of experiments. Two Nobel Prizes in Physics have already been awarded for research on the cosmic background radiation: one in 1978 to Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, who first discovered it, the other in 2006, to George Smoot and John Mather, for the results of the COBE satellite. Most cosmological information is encoded in the cosmic background radiation by acoustic oscillations in the dense plasma that filled the primordial Universe: a "music" of the big bang, which cosmologists have long been trying to reconstruct and analyze, in order to distinguish different cosmological models, much like one can distinguish different musical instruments by their timbre and overtones. Only lately, has this amazing cosmic sound been unveiled by such experiments as BOOMERANG and MAXIMA and, more recently, by the WMAP satellite. This led to a giant leap in our understanding of the Universe, but the investigation is not over yet. The book focuses on how the exploration of the cosmic background radiation has shaped our picture of the Universe, leading even the non-specialized readers towards the frontier of cosmological research, helping them to understand, using a simple language and captivating metaphors, the mechanisms behind the Universe in which we live.</p>

The Music of the Big Bang: The Cosmic Microwave Background and the New Cosmology (Astronomers' Universe)

Springer

The cosmic microwave background radiation is the afterglow of the big bang: a tenuous signal, more than 13 billion years old, which carries the answers to many of the questions about the nature of our Universe. It was serendipitously discovered in 1964, and thoroughly investigated in the last four decades by a large number of experiments. Two Nobel Prizes in Physics have already been awarded for research on the cosmic background radiation: one in 1978 to Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, who first discovered it, the other in 2006, to George Smoot and John Mather, for the results of the COBE satellite. Most cosmological information is encoded in the cosmic background radiation by acoustic oscillations in the dense plasma that filled the primordial Universe: a "music" of the big bang, which cosmologists have long been trying to reconstruct and analyze, in order to distinguish different cosmological models, much like one can distinguish different musical instruments by their timbre and overtones. Only lately, has this amazing cosmic sound been unveiled by such experiments as BOOMERANG and MAXIMA and, more recently, by the WMAP satellite. This led to a giant leap in our understanding of the Universe, but the investigation is not over yet. The book focuses on how the exploration of the cosmic background radiation has shaped our picture of the Universe, leading even the non-specialized readers towards the frontier of cosmological research, helping them to understand, using a simple language and captivating metaphors, the mechanisms behind the Universe in which we live.

Mientras tratan de perfeccionar el funcionamiento de una gran antena, Arno Penzias y Robert Wilson, dos jovenes radioastronomos de los laboratorios Bell, en Holmdel, Nueva Jersey, captan un molesto ruido de fondo, omnipresente y misterioso. Corre el ano 1964, y asi comienza una investigacion que los llevara a repasar medio siglo de historia de la ciencia y culminara con uno de los descubrimientos mas trascendentales del hombre hasta la fecha. / Trying to improve the functioning of a large antenna, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, two young radio astronomers, capture an annoying background noise, omnipresent and mysterious. The year is 1964, and an investigation will start to culminate in one of the most important discoveries ever.

Cosmicómic: El descubrimiento del Big Bang (Spanish Edition)

Piccioni, Rossano

Literature & Fiction

Salamandra

Cosmicomic bolsillo (SG)

Comics & Graphic Novels

Graphic Novels

Salamandra Graphic

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