- Subjects
- Published
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Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press
1999.
- Language
- English
French - Main Author
- Item Description
- "First published in French as l'Univers"--T.p. verso.
- Physical Description
- 216 p. : col. ill. ; 37 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 213) and index.
- ISBN
- 9780521663076
- Foreword
- 1. The history of cosmology
- 2. The galaxy, an island in space
- 3. A thousand generations of stars
- 4. The next supernova
- 5. Planets by the billion?
- 6. The enigma at the heart of the Milky Way
- 7. A sea of galaxies
- 8. The architecture of the universe
- 9. The Big Bang, and the history of the universe
- 10. Gravitational lenses
- 11. The mystery of the missing mass
- 12. Searching for the ultimate
- 13. Towards the cosmological horizon
- Appendices
- Glossary
- Index
- Bibliography