344
Numbers in bold refer
to a main entry
40 Eridani 141, 178
51 Pegasi-b (Bellerophon) 290, 291, 293
67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko 206, 207,
308 –11
1054 supernova 19
A
absolute magnitude 135, 139, 141
absorption lines 125–7, 128 , 163
accretion disk 221
active galactic nuclei (AGNs) 185
active galaxies 185, 221
Adams, Fred 277
Adams, John Couch 107
Adams, Walter 124, 138, 141 , 178, 180
adaptive optics (AO) 192
al-Battani 334
al-Sijzi 26
al-Sufi, Abd al-Rahman 24, 27 , 30, 87
Albertus Magnus 230
Aldrin, Buzz 248, 320
Alfonsine Tables 24
Alfonso, Giovanni 69
Almagest (Ptolemy) 18, 19, 21, 24, 25, 27,
30, 34, 86
Alpha Centauri 102, 180
Alpher, Ralph 116, 182, 196–7, 198,
224–5, 226, 272
Alvarez, Luis 212
Amalthea 63
Ambartsumian, Victor 338
Anaxagoras 231
Anaximander of Miletus 18, 334
ancient world 12–13, 18–25
Anders, Bill 247
Anderson, Carl 140
Andromeda galaxy/nebula 27, 87, 110,
132, 136, 137, 159–60, 161, 174, 216,
221, 270
antineutrinos 252
Apianus, Petrus 76, 77
Apollo missions 14, 186, 205, 244–9,
320, 325
apparent magnitude 135, 136, 138
Aquinas, Thomas 20
archaeology 12
Archimedes 21
Arecibo message 233, 234
Aristarchus of Samos 18, 21 , 34, 36, 38, 102
Aristotle 18, 20 , 21, 24, 26, 34, 35, 44–5,
46, 48, 74, 77
armillary spheres 45
Armstrong, Neil 205, 248, 320
Arp, Halton 339
Arrhenius 230
Aryabhata 19, 26
Asphaug, Erik 186
asteroid belt 82, 90, 91, 97, 312
asteroids 65, 72, 82, 83, 90–91, 96, 99, 308
Aston, Francis 182
astrobiology 15
astrochemistry 15
astrology 13, 25, 52
astronomy
observations 14–15
origins of 12–13
purpose of 14
scope of 15
astrophotography 118 –19, 120
astrophysics 15
rise of 108–41
Atacama Large Millimeter Array 259,
326–7
Atkinson, Robert 166, 167, 182, 183, 198
atomic clocks 13
atomic theory 112, 114
atoms 144, 145B
Baade, Walter 137, 140, 141, 145,
180–81, 236
Babcock, Horace 270
Babylonians 13, 18, 24, 25
Backer, Donald 236
Baghdad 19
Bahcall, John 253
Bailey, Solon I 136
Barnard, Edward 63, 200, 337
Barringer, Daniel 212Becquerel, Henri 111, 140, 166
Bell Burnell, Jocelyn 179, 180, 205,
218, 236–9
Bessel, Friedrich 21, 78, 83, 102 , 132
Bethe, Hans 166, 182–3, 196, 198, 252
BICEP2 272, 273
Big Bang 116, 148, 163, 168, 171, 177,
179, 182, 196, 197, 198, 199, 220,
222–7, 272, 273, 277, 282–3, 284,
300, 329
Big Crunch 301, 303
Big Rip 303
Big Splash 187
binary stars 49, 86, 110, 214, 216, 217,
294, 302
Biot, Jean-Baptiste 91
black bodies 283–4
black dwarfs 127
black holes 14, 82, 145, 148, 153, 154–5,
178, 179, 181, 205, 214, 216, 217,
218–21, 239, 269
at center of Milky Way 154, 297
colliding 329, 331
discovering 254
radiation emissions 255
supermassive 154, 179, 217, 221 , 297
blue dwarfs 279
blue supergiants 126
blueshift 159, 160, 270
Bode, Johann Elert 79, 85, 96, 97, 98, 99
Bohr, Niels 112, 114
Bok, Bart 200–201, 276
Bok globules 200–201, 276, 278
Bolton, Tom 254
Bondi, Hermann 290, 300
Borman, Frank 247
Bournon, Jacques-Louis de 90
Bouvard, Alexis 106
Bowen, Ira 114
Boyle, Robert 167
Boyle’s Law 167
Bradley, James 39, 43, 78
Brahe, Tycho 20, 30, 31, 36, 39, 42, 43,
44–7, 48, 52–4, 74–5, 102, 180
Braun, Wernher von 208, 245
brown dwarfs 127, 258, 293, 294
Bruno, Giordano 42, 230
Bryson, Bill 271
Bunsen, Robert 110, 112, 113, 114
Burney, Venetia 316INDEX