| 书目名称 | The Making of History‘s Greatest Star Map | | 编辑 | Michael Perryman | | 视频video | | | 概述 | A description of one of the largest scientific undertakings of recent years.Illustrates the political and technical challenges of space projects.Describes the human scale of such an undertaking.Concis | | 丛书名称 | Astronomers‘ Universe | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | .From prehistoric times, mankind has looked up at the night sky, and puzzled at the changing positions of the stars. How far away they are is a question that has confounded scientists for centuries. Over the last few hundred years, many scientific careers – and considerable resources – have been devoted to measuring their positions and motions with ever increasing accuracy. And in the last two decades of the 20th century, the European Space Agency developed and launched the Hipparcos satellite, around which this account revolves, to carry out these exacting measurements from space..What has prompted these remarkable developments? Why have governments been persuaded to fund them? What are scientists learning from astronomy‘s equivalent of the Human Genome Project? This book traces the subject‘s history, explains why such enormous efforts are considered worthwhile, and interweaves these with a first-hand insight into the Hipparcos project, and how big science is conducted at an international level. The involvement of amateur astronomers, and the Hipparcos contributions to climate research, ‘death stars‘ passing close to the Sun, and the search for extra-solar planets and even intelli | | 出版日期 | Book 2010 | | 关键词 | Amateur astronomers in science; Astrometry explained; Astronomical satellite missions; Big science proj | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11602-5 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-642-26303-3 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-642-11602-5Series ISSN 1614-659X Series E-ISSN 2197-6651 | | issn_series | 1614-659X | | copyright | Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010 |
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