New Insights into the Universe

Indispensable for the building of cosmological models are
precise               observational data. To provide such data is the main
purpose of this book.   First, an analysis of recent
cosmological observations using artificial      satellites and
large ground-based telescopes is given. Among these are         the
observation of the spatial distribution of galaxies and
clusters,   the detection of peculiar velocity fields in large
regions, and the            measurement of anisotropies in the
microwave background radiation. Second,   the authors present
theoretical models which best fit the given                  observational
data. The book addresses graduate students and                        astronomers
and astrophysicists.