A review covering all aspects of the study of the cosmic background radiation remnant of the hot Big Bang origin of the Universe.

Leading scientists offer a collection of essays that furnish illuminating explanations of recent discoveries in modern astrophysics--from the Big Bang to black

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on the Cosmological Background Radiation, Strasbourg, France, May 27-June 7, 1996

Graduate textbook examining the theory of the cosmic microwave background and its recent progress.

Radiating fire and ice, comets as a phenomenon seem part science, part myth. Two thousand years ago when a comet shot across the night sky, it convinced the Rom