Finding Our Place in the Universe: How We Discovered Laniakea - The Milky Way's Home

by Hélène Courtois

Book Overview

How a team of researchers, led by the author, discovered our home galaxy's location in the universe.

You are here: on Earth, which is part of the solar system, which is in the Milky Way galaxy, which itself is within the extragalactic supercluster Laniakea. And how can we pinpoint our location so precisely? For twenty years, astrophysicist H l ne Courtois surfed the cosmos with international teams of researchers, working to map our local...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262039958
• ISBN13: 9780262039956
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.1"