Cosmology is a branch of astronomy that involves the origin and evolution of the universe, from the Big Bang to today and on into the future.
According to NASA, the definition of cosmology is "the scientific study of the large scale properties of the universe as a whole.".
Research in cosmology involves astronomy, but also gravitational physics, particle physics, and challenging questions about the interpretation of phenomena we can't see directly — such as the possible existence of something before the Big Bang..
cosmology, Field of study that brings together the natural sciences, especially astronomy and physics, in an effort to understand the physical universe as a unified whole.
The first great age of scientific cosmology began in Greece in the 6th century bc, when the Pythagoreans introduced the concept of a spherical Earth and, unlike the Babylonians a.
cosmology, Field of study that brings together the natural sciences, especially astronomy and physics, in an effort to understand the physical universe as a unified whole.
The second edition includes ,recent observational results, fuller descriptions of special and general relativity, expanded discussions of dark energy, and a new chapter on baryonic matter that makes up stars and galaxies.
It is an ideal textbook for the era of precision cosmology in the accelerating universe.
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