Frontier Research in Astrophysics - A Review from a personal point of view

Abstract

This talk is a summary of an updated version of the book The Impact of the Space Experiments on Our Knowledge of the Physics of the Universe , published in 2004 by the Kluwer Academic Publishers, reprinted from the review paper by Giovannelli, F. and Sabau-Graziati, L.: 2004, Space Sci. Rev. 112, 1-443 (GSG2004), and subsequent considered lucubrations. \n \nThe structure of this review paper is the following: \n \n- Antecedent fact \n- Introduction \n- How to know our Universe \n- The use of wisdom in Physics \n- The present situation about the knowledge of the physics \n of our Universe \n- Habitable zone in the Milky Way and exoplanets \n- Origin of terrestrial life \n- Conclusions