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Beyond the range of optical perception--and of ordinary
imaginings--a new and violent universe lay undetected until the
advent of space exploration. Supernovae, black holes, quasars and
pulsars--these were the secrets of the highenergy world revealed
when, for the first time, astronomers attached their instruments to
rockets and lofted them beyond the earth's x-ray-absorbing
atmosphere.
"The X-Ray Universe" is the story of these explorations and the
fantastic new science they brought into being. It is a first-hand
account: Riccardo Giacconi is one of the principal pioneers of the
field, and Wallace Tucker is a theorist who worked closely with him
at many critical periods.
The book carries the reader from the early days of the Naval
Research Laboratory through the era of V-2 rocketry, Sputnik, and
the birth of NASA, to the launching of the Einstein X-Ray
Observatory. But this is by no means just a history. Behind the
suspenseful, sometimes humorous details of human personality
grappling with high technology lies a sophisticated exposition of
current cosmology and astrophysics, from the rise and fall of the
steady-state theory to the search for the missing mass of the
universe.
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