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Cosmic Dawn

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by George Rhee


  F

  field of streams image

  future plans for astronomy

  G

  galaxies

  at high redshifts, see high redshift galaxies

  collisions

  dark matter in

  detecting the first ones

  fossils

  rotation curves

  why they rotate

  galaxy formation

  GALEX, galaxy evolution explorer

  satellite

  Galileo

  gamma-ray bursts

  Gamow, George

  geology

  Giant Magellan Telescope

  Grand Canyon

  gravitational lensing

  Great Debate

  H

  Hamilton, William

  helium

  formation of

  Herman, Robert

  Herschel Space Observatory

  Herschel, William

  Hertzprung-Russell diagram

  high redshift galaxies

  distant red galaxies

  images of

  Lyman alpha blobs

  Lyman-break galaxies

  sub-millimeter galaxies

  Hubble constant

  Hubble law

  Hubble Ultra Deep Field

  Hubble, Edwin

  Huggins, William

  hydrogen, see neutral hydrogen

  I

  infinite universe

  idea of

  J

  James Webb Space Telescope

  Ariane rocket

  costs

  instruments

  light detectors

  mirrors and sunshield

  mission goal

  orbit location

  K

  Kant, Immanuel

  Kapteyn, Jacobus

  Kepler, Johannes

  L

  Laplace, Pierre Simon

  Large Synoptic Survey Telescope

  Lemaître, George

  Local Group

  structure

  Lowell, Percival

  Lyman break method

  M

  M31

  Seesee Andromeda galaxy

  MACHO project

  Marius, Simon

  mass to light ratios

  Milky Way galaxy

  dark matter in

  halo

  rotation

  structure of

  missing baryons

  missing satellite problem

  N

  Neptune

  discovery of

  neutral hydrogen

  21-cm line

  at high redshift

  detected in quasar spectra

  emission

  imprint on cosmic background

  radiation

  neutrinos

  detected from supernovas

  as dark matter candidates

  detection of

  solar neutrino problem

  Super-Kamiokande detector

  Newton, Isaac

  nuclear fusion

  inside the Sun

  in the early universe

  O

  Olbers’ paradox

  Oort, Jan

  P

  parallax

  Penzias, Arno

  planetary motion

  planetary orbits

  Q

  quasars

  R

  radio galaxies

  radio telescopes

  ALMA, the Atacama large

  millimeter array

  the James Clerk Maxwell

  Telescope

  FAST, the five hundred meter

  aperture spherical radio

  telescope

  SKA, the square kilometer array

  recombination

  redshift

  and lookback time

  redshift surveys

  2-degree field galaxy redshift

  survey

  Sloan Digital Sky Survey

  strategies

  reionization

  end of

  Rosse, Earl of

  S

  Sagittarius dwarf galaxy

  Sandage, Allan

  SCUBA, sub-millimeter camera

  Shapley, Harlow

  SKA, the square kilometer array

  sky surveys

  Large Synoptic survey Telescope

  two micron all sky survey

  Sloan Digital Sky Survey

  camera

  star formation

  history of in the universe

  stars

  death of

  evolution of

  structure formation

  Super-Kamiokande neutrino

  detector

  supernovas

  as standard candles

  and dark energy

  T

  tidal streams

  Tombaugh, Clyde

  Triangulum galaxy

  Trumpler, Robert

  Tycho Brahe

  Tycho, Brahe

  U

  universe

  density of

  evolution of

  parameters

  star formation history

  timeline

  V

  van Maanen, Adriaan

  variable stars

  virtual observatory

  W

  Weinberg, Steven

  The First Three Minutes

  Wilson, Robert

  WMAP satellite

  Z

  Zwicky, Fritz

  dark matter

 

 

 


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