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galactic neighbourhood 24–5
galaxies 24
barred spiral 28
collisions of 169–71
dwarf 24, 25, 48
giant 24
measuring distance of 60–1
shape of our 28
spiral 25, 25, 28, 48, 49, 53, 55, 70, 169, 169
term 24
see also under individual galaxy name
Galaxy Evolution Explorer, NASA 235
Galileo 32, 38, 40, 52, 145, 209
gamma-ray burst 226, 226, 227, 227
General Theory of Relativity 11–12, 145, 151, 182, 188, 189–93, 194–5, 213
Gentilin, Guillaume 29
geoid 155, 158–9, 158, 159
Glenn, John 142
Gliese 581 (planet) 84, 89
GOCE (satellite) 158
GPS 191, 193
Grand Unified Theory 239
gravity 11–12, 138–97
centrifuge and 174–5
formation of 161
geoid 155, 158–9, 158, 159
invisible string 140, 148–9
minimising potential energy and 166
Moon and 148, 159, 160–3
mountains and surface gravity 154
neutron stars and 84, 180, 181, 182, 194, 195
Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation 150–1, 163, 184, 185, 186, 190, 193
newtons 154, 155
paradox of 174–5
planets, effect on 174–5
sculptor 140, 146, 147, 151, 152–3
stars and planets, creator and destroyer of 141, 166
Sun’s 175
surface 154
understanding 150–1
water and 153, 156, 159, 160–3
weakness of 174–5
weight, mass and 154–5
weightlessness 141, 142, 144–5, 155
what is? 184–5
why do all objects fall at the same ratio in gravitational
fields? 144–5, 184–5
zodiacal light and 164–5
GRB 090423 (star) 227, 229, 229
Great Rift Valley, Tanzania 46, 46, 47, 47
Greece, ancient 19, 38, 79, 83
Greenland 146, 146–7
Grisson, Gus 175
H
H D 93129A (star) 75
H E 1523-0901 (star) 27
Hawker Hunter 42–3
Helix Nebula 124, 124
Herschel 36 (star) 29–30
Herschel Space Observatory Telescope 134, 135
Herschel, Sir John 120
Herschel, William 124
Hewish, Anthony 177, 182
Higgs Boson 12, 107
Himalayas 80, 92, 92, 93, 93
Hindu religion 8, 80–1
Homo Habilis 47, 48, 48
Hooke, Robert 32, 34
Hoyle, Sir Fred 177
Hubble Telescope 25, 50–5, 51, 52, 60–1, 64–5, 71, 85, 120, 142, 176, 180, 190, 231
Hubble Ultra Deep Field 54, 54, 55, 56, 59, 227
Hubble, Edwin 52, 60, 62, 149
Hubble’s Law 60, 63, 64–5
human ancestors 47, 48, 48
Huygens, Christiaan 32, 34, 41, 209
hydrogen bomb 115, 116
hypernova 31
Hypothesis of Light (Newton) 34
I
IC 4406 (star) 124, 124 inflation 71, 106
infrared 68, 69
Infrared Telescope, UK’s (UKIRT) 227
Innes, Robert 98
Isaac Newton Telescope, La Palma, Canary Islands 12
J
Jansky, Karl 168
Johanson, Donald 47
Joule, James 214–15
Jovian clock 40–1
Jupiter 40, 41, 41, 45, 164, 165, 174
K
Karnak Temple, Luxor 17, 17, 18, 18, 19
Kathmandu, Nepal 80–1
Kepler, Johannes 19, 32, 38, 151
Kirchhoff, Gustav 98, 99
Kohoutek 4-55 (planetary nebula) 125, 125
Kolmanskop, Namibia 216–21, 216–17, 218, 219, 220
L
Lagoon Nebula 29, 29
Large Hadron Collider (LHC) 12, 78, 79, 79, 107
Leakey, Louis 47
Leakey, Mary 47
Lenard, Andrew 180–1
Lescarbault 186
Leucippus 79, 91
Lewala, Zacharias 216
LGM–1 177, 182
Liberty Bell 7 175
light 11
a star is born 29–31
as an electromagnetic wave 34, 35, 36, 37, 59, 60, 64, 68, 69, 101, 191
barrier 43
birth of the universe and 66–75
connection with past 16, 31, 44, 45, 48–9, 52, 71
‘corpuscles’ 34
cosmic clock and 39, 40–1
dawn of time and 46–7
diffraction of 34
finding Andromeda 48–9
first sight 72–5
Hubble Telescope and see Hubble Telescope
infrared 68, 69
made up of a spectrum of colours 98–9
mapping the Milky Way galaxy 26–7
measuring/observing movement in, ancient 19–21
messengers from across the ocean of space 36–7
microwaves 68, 69, 70–1
galactic neighbourhood 24–5
our place in the universe 22–3
picturing the past 70–1
radio waves and 68–9, 84
rainbows 56–9
redshift see redshift
speed of 37, 38–43
story of 16–31
the shape of our galaxy 28
time travel 44–65
visible 68–9
what is? 32–44
Young’s double-slit experiment 34–5
Livingstone, David 56
Local Group 149
Lovell Telescope, Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics 182, 183, 183
Lovell, Jim 8
Lucy (human ancestor) 47
Lüderitz, Namibia 216–19
Luna 3 162
Luna 15 96
M
M33 (Triangulum galaxy) 25, 25
M51 (Whirlpool