INDEX
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acceleration
Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN)
Advanced Satellite for Cosmology and Astrophysics (ASCA)
Alpha Centauri A
American Journal of Science
Andromeda galaxy
anthropic principles
antielectrons
antineutrinos
Arms and Insecurity (Richardson)
astronomy
astrophysics
atoms; see also subatomic particles
Auriga (Charioteer)
baby galaxies
baby stars
Bayeux Tapestry
“beaming”
Bell, Jocelyn
Bell Labs
beta decay
Big Bang theory
binary black holes
binary stars
Black Hole Imager (BHI)
black holes: accretion disks of; in Andromeda galaxy; author’s research on; baby systems of; bubbles formed by; collapse of; composite map of; compression and condensation in; coronas of; dark matter in; density of; detection and investigation of; development and growth of; duty cycles of; electromagnetic radiation from; energy produced by; ergosphere of; event horizon of; frictional forces (rotational energy) produced by; in galaxies; gas fields around; gravitational field of; as “gravity’s engines”; jets of particles from; life cycle of; life forms as dependent on; light emitted by; mass of; matter absorbed by; Michell-Laplace theory of; in Milky Way galaxy; models and theories of; orbiting pair of (binary); origins; photographic images of; quantum properties of; quasars and; radio waves emitted from; relativity effects of; Schwarzchild radius for; singularities of; size of (light-years); sound waves in; spacetime distorted by; spinning of; star formation and; subatomic particles in; supermassive; “switched on”; temperatures of; as term; in universe formation; velocity of; X-rays from
Blandford, Roger
blue galaxies
blueshift
blue stars
Boehringer, Hans
Bohr, Niels
bremsstrahlung (“braking radiation”)
brown dwarfs
Burbidge, Geoffrey
carbon
carbon monoxide
Carina
Cavendish, Henry
Cepheids
Chandrasekhar, Subramanyan
Chandra X-ray Observatory
clusters, galactic
Cobalt-60 isotope
Columbia space shuttle
complexity
Compton, Arthur
computer simulations
constellations
Copernicus, Nicolaus
cosmic background radiation
Cygnus A
Cygnus X-1
Darwin, Charles
Darwin, Erasmus
Darwin, George
degeneracy pressure
Delta Cephei
density
Doppler effect
“dumbbell” structures
dwarf galaxies
dwarf stars
E=mc2
Earth
Ebeling, Harald
Eddington, Arthur
Einstein, Albert
Einstein tensor
electricity
electromagnetic radiation
electrons
elements
elliptical galaxies
embedding diagrams
Epicureans
Eukarya
European Space Agency
evolution
exoplanetary systems
Exposition du système du monde (Laplace)
Fabian, Andrew
Felten, Jim
Fermi, Enrico
field equation (formula)
Finkbeiner, Doug
4C41.17 object
Fowler, Ralph
frames of reference
Franklin, Benjamin
galaxies; see also specific galaxies
Galaxy Zoo
Galileo Galilei
gamma rays (black)
Gendreau, Keith
General Electric
general theory of relativity
Giacconi, Riccardo
globular clusters
Gondwana
gravity: acceleration and; collapse of; as constant (G); fields of; force of; laws of; in relativity theory; tides of; waves of; wells of
“green valley” galaxies
Gunn, Jim
Halley’s comet
“headlight effect”
Heisenberg, Werner
heliopause
helium
Herschel, William
Hewish, Antony
Hilbert, David
Hoover Dam
Horner, Donald
Hoyle, Fred
Hubble, Edwin
Hubble Space Telescope
hydroelectric power
hydrogen
infrared light
interference patterns
interstellar clouds (nebulae)
interstellar dust
“inverse Compton scattering”
ions
iron
isotopes
Israel, Werner
James Clerk Maxwell Telescope
Jansky, Karl
Jeans, James
Jeans Mass
Jones, Laurence
Jupiter
Kaufmann, Gordon B.
Keck Observatory
Kerr, Roy
kinetic energy
Laplace, Pierre-Simon
Large Hadron Collider
Lascaux caves
Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO)
Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA)
lasers
laws, physical
Lense-Thirring effect
life forms
light: aether as medium for; corpuscular theory of; interference patterns of; particles of; spectrum of; speed of; in vacuum; waves of
light-years
Local Group
“luminiferous aether”
Lynden-Bell, Donald
M87 galaxy
magnetism; see also electromagnetic radiation
mass
mathematics
Maxwell, James Clerk
Mercury
Michell, John
Michelson, Albert
microwaves
Milky Way galaxy
Mirabel, Felix
molecules
momentum
Moon
moons
Morley, Edward
Morrison, Philip
Mount Palomar Observatory
Mount Wilson Observatory
muons
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Nature
nebulae, see interstellar clouds
nebular hypothesis
Neptune
neutrinos
neutrons
neutron stars
Newton, Isaac
Newton Observatory
New York Times, The
NGC 4261 galaxy
NGC 6744 galaxy
nitrogen
Norway
nuclear fusion
nuclear weapons
nuclei, atomic
Nulsen, Paul
Olbers, Heinrich
Olbers’s Paradox
Olduavi Gorge
“On the Means of Discovering the Distance, Magnitude, &c. of the Fixed Stars…” (Michell)
Oppenheimer, J. Robert
orbits, planetary
Orion
oxygen
particle accelerators
Penrose, Roger
“periscopes”
Perlman, Eric
Perseus
Perseus galaxy cluster
photons
physics; see also quantum mechanics; relativity theory
pi (π)
Planck, Max
planets
plasma
Pleiades
pressure waves
protogalaxies
protons
protoplanets
protostars
pulsars
quantum mechanics
quasars
radio telescopes
radio waves
Randall-Sundrum model
red galaxies
red giants
redshift
red stars
relativity theory
Reuland, Michiel
Richardson, Lewis Fry
rockets
Roentgen, Wilhelm
Roentgen Satellite (ROSAT)
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Royal Society
RR Lyrae variables
Sagan, Carl
Sagittarius
Salpeter, Edwin
Santorini
satellites
Saturn
Schmidt, Maarten
Schwartz, Dan
Schwarzchild, Karl
Schwarzchild radius
Scorpius X-1
Shapley, Harlow
Shapley Supercluster
silicon
singularities
Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)
Smail, Ian
solar radiation
solar system
sound waves
space
spacetime
special theory of relativity
spiral galaxies
“Stability of a Spherical Nebula, The” (Jeans)
stars: baby; binary; blue; brightness of (luminosity); dwarf; formation of; location and patterns of; neutron; number of; proto-; red; yellow
subatomic particles; see also specific particles
Submillimeter Common User Bolometer Array (SCUBA)
submillimeter radiation
Sun
supernovae
synchrotron radiation
tau neutrino
telescopes
temperature
thermodynamics
Thorne, Kip
three-dimensional space
time; see also spacetime
Uchinoura Space Center
Uhuru observatory
ultraviolet light
uncertainty principle
universe: construction vs. destruction in; as “cosmic web”; “dark ages” of; equilibrium in; expansion of; formation of; large-scale structure of; mapping of; “observable”; origins of; time scale for; total mass of; void in
Uranus
van Breugel, Wil
velocity
visible light
Wegner, Gary
“whale’s dilemma”
Wheeler, John Archibald
white dwarfs
Wide Angle ROSAT Pointed Survey (WARPS)
William the Conqueror
wormholes
X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission (XMM-Newton)
X-rays
X-ray telescopes
yellow stars
Zel’dovich, Yakov
Znajek, Roman