Watching the sun, the moon and the stars has been a hobby of human beings since ancient times. With the development of science and technology, human's observation of the moon and stars has become a galaxy map sent back by various astronomical telescopes and observation instruments. Astronomers thousands of years ago certainly didn't know how wonderful the galaxies in the universe were. In this era, we can see these magnificent scenes as long as we turn on the computer or mobile phone at will. This is our luck.

The Beauty of the Universe is a very popular cosmological book in France. The whole book is not only a book about the history of the universe, but also a collection of knowledge points. The Beauty of the Universe not only tells the story of the Big Bang 65.438+038 billion years ago, but also predicts the possible "big collapse" after 7.76 billion years. The extensive knowledge of cosmology in the book can completely satisfy the general cosmology and astronomy lovers. The book extracts the 200 most important events in the history of the universe, and each event is accompanied by related works of art or photos. There are not only beautiful pictures of the universe, but also exquisite works of art by human beings. The Beauty of the Universe can appreciate the beauty of both the universe and human art, and it is a popular science book of cosmology with both popular science and humanistic literacy.

The Beauty of the Universe has two authors, Jacques Paul and Jean-Luc Robert aysel. Jacques Paul is a scientific adviser to the French Atomic Energy and Alternative Energy Commission (CEA) and the Sackley Center for Nuclear Research (CENS), and Jean-Luc Robel-Eisel is a research engineer at the French National Institute of Science (CNRS) and the seventh largest particle astrophysics and cosmology laboratory in Paris. Both authors are famous scientists in the field of cosmology, and this book also has a strong academic atmosphere.

It is worth mentioning that the two translators of this book, Lin Ming and Tao Yi, are also doctors in related fields in the Department of Physics of Tsinghua University. Among them, Lin Ming is very interested in the large-scale structure of the universe, the high redshift universe and the large-scale cosmological numerical simulation. Ceramic art has a certain background in astrophysics and cosmology. It is for this reason that the translation of this book can be both accurate and in line with the context of China. It must be said that the translation of popular science books is so important that many very good foreign language books are difficult to read because they have not met the right translators. The fundamental reason for this is the translator's bilingual ability and related knowledge background. Without this knowledge background, it is almost impossible to make mistakes in translation. Interlacing is like a mountain, so is translation. Fortunately, the book Beauty of the Universe met such a professional translator.

The arrangement of the Beauty of the Universe is thoughtful and arranged in chronological order. So, the first explanation is the multiverse. Open this part of the book, the left page is the entry, and the right page is the picture. At the end of the item on the left page, there will be a "Related Content" section, which will indicate other items related to the item and their page numbers. Each entry is arranged in this way. Such intuitive and vivid popular science is very friendly to budding fans and suitable for children's popular science learning.

On the other hand, at the bottom of the left page of each item, there are two different timeline prompts. The lower left corner is the activity date of the Big Bang as the starting point, and the lower right corner is the activity date of the advertising calendar. It can be said that it is very rigorous. The author is even so rigorous that if this book is published in other parts of the universe, other chronological methods should be adopted.

Open the book "The Beauty of the Universe" and you will be amazed at its comprehensiveness and rigor, as well as those very beautiful pictures. For example, everyone's impression of the universe is probably a galaxy and the surrounding darkness. In this galaxy map, galaxies like plates are called galaxy disks. It is a high-speed thin disk formed by the inward collapse of baryon matter in dark matter halo. The silver disk is filled with interstellar gas clouds, forming billions of stars. The spiral band around the disk of this galaxy is called the spiral arm structure of the galaxy. A "galaxy disk" entry can explain all this knowledge clearly.

Of course, when it comes to the history of the universe, we have to mention some people who have made great contributions to astronomy and cosmology. William Herschel's contribution to astronomy is mentioned in the entry "Galaxy". He used to be a musician in a military orchestra and wrote many excellent symphonies and concertos. But his greatest hobby is astronomy. With the help of his sister who has the same hobby, he taught himself to observe space and made more than 400 telescopes in his life. 178 1 year, he discovered Uranus, was elected to the royal society, and received a king's allowance. He spent all his allowance on astronomical research and kept making more advanced instruments. There were many important astronomical discoveries in his life, including the discovery of Skynet and its two satellites, the discovery of infrared radiation, the construction of a model of the sun in the center of a disk with the plane of the disk aligned with the Milky Way, and the tabulation of thousands of nebulae, paving the way for astronomers to explore the entire Hubble volume more than a century later.

The beauty of the universe not only tells the history of the universe, but also tells us how these were observed. Astronomers can really "see" the general appearance of the universe at a certain stage of evolution, instead of speculating on relics and cultural relics like archaeologists. As long as you choose all the celestial bodies within a certain range and a certain distance in the sky, you can observe them. The principle behind this is that because the propagation speed of light is limited, it is far in space, that is, far in time. Therefore, we can observe the evolution of galaxies billions of years ago.

In a word, this is a rare book on cosmology. If it is for children, parents are advised to accompany it and explain it to the children. For parents, it is also a very good way to learn and grow.