Michael S Turner1

  • 1Michael S. Turner is the Rauner Distinguished Service Professor emeritus in the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics at The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA, and a visiting professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|November 23, 2023
PubMed
概括

开创性的天文发现,从宇宙的膨胀到系外行星,历史上都是用大型望远镜发现的. 新的地面和太空望远镜承诺更大的宇宙洞察力.

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