Chapter 17 VLT Deep Field

Figure 17.1 Galaxy Survey

Figure 17.2 Olbers’s Paradox

Figure 17.3 Receding Galaxies

Figure 17.4 Cosmological Redshift

Figure 17.5 Escape Velocity

Figure 17.6 Model Universes

Figure 17.7 Accelerating Universe

Discovery 17-1 The Cosmological Constant

Figure 17.8 Cosmic Age

Figure 17.9 Einstein’s Curve Ball

More Precisely 17-1 Curved Space

Figure 17.10 Microwave Background Discoverers

Figure 17.11 Cosmic Blackbody Curves

Figure 17.12 Microwave Background Spectrum

Figure 17.13 Radiation–Matter Dominance

Figure 17.14 Helium Formation

Figure 17.15 Radiation–Matter Decoupling

Figure 17.16 Horizon Problem

Figure 17.17 Flatness Problem

Figure 17.18 Cosmic Inflation

Figure 17.19 Inflation and the Flatness Problem

Figure 17.20 Structure Formation

Figure 17.21 Structure Simulated

Figure 17.22 Cosmic Microwave Background Map

Figure 17.23 Early Structure