Astronomy: 21st century. fifth edition

This book is devoted to astronomy in its various incarnations: from the study of the moon and planets to the study of gravitational waves, dark matter and dark energy. Scientists of the State Astronomical Institute. P.K. Sternberg (Moscow State University) talk about the most important events that occurred in astronomy at the beginning of the new millennium. By a strange coincidence, it was this conditional line that was marked by several revolutionary discoveries in astronomy.
In recent years, astronomy and astrophysics have been developing especially rapidly, as indicated by the number of Nobel prizes received for relevant research. First of all, this applies to cosmology, registration of gravitational waves, the study of ultra -massive black holes and the study of exoplanets.
The results of new studies are described in the 5th edition of the book. In particular, it discusses the problem of the Hubble Tension, which cosmologists have not yet been able to decide