Astronomy category: 2403 books
Dark Matters
Unifying Matter, Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Universal Grid
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2008
One of the most important unsolved problems of current physics, astronomy, and cosmology is the nature of dark matter and dark energy. These two invisible components of the universe seem to control the behavior of galaxies, clusters of galaxies, and the accelerating expansion of the universe, but...
Lewis Swift
Celebrated Comet Hunter and the People's Astronomer
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
This biography covers the life of Lewis Swift (1820-1913), who discovered 13 comets and nearly 1,200 other deep sky objects. All 13 comets found by Swift now bear his name, including three periodic comets with periods of 6 years (11P/Tempel-Swift-LINEAR), 9 years (64P/Swift-Gehrels), and 133 years...
The Traveler's Guide to Space
For One-Way Settlers and Round-Trip Tourists
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
If you have ever wondered about space travel, now you have the opportunity to understand it more fully than ever before. Traveling into space and even emigrating to nearby worlds may soon become part of the human experience. Scientists, engineers, and investors are working hard to make space tourism...
by Imke de Pater, Jack J. Lissauer
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
An authoritative introduction for graduate students in the physical sciences, this award-winning textbook explains the wide variety of physical, chemical, and geological processes that govern the motions and properties of planets. This updated second edition has been revised and improved while maintaining...
by Fabio Vittorio De Blasio
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2018
This book introduces the reader to the wonders of Mars, covering all aspects from our past perceptions of the planet through to the latest knowledge on its history, its surface processes such as impact cratering, volcano formation, and glaciation, and its atmosphere and climate. In addition, a series...
by Johann Suboca
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
(The) God In Us starts with an introduction to basic astronomy, and then relates how Man has interacted with the perceived universe over time.It further discusses how certain experiences and memories can influence the understanding and actions of individuals and groups, and how to change perceptions...
The Schwarzschild-de Broglie Modification of Special Relativity for Massive Field Bosons (SBM)
A study about dark matter and dark energy from the SBM model perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Scientific Study from the year 2014 in the subject Physics - Astronomy, , language: English, abstract: This work is a presentation of a modified form of special relativity for field-bosons - in short SBM. Field bosons, for the purposes of this work, are synonymous with the condensates from spin 0-particles....
Jan Hendrik Oort
Master of the Galactic System
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2019
This book is the first thorough and overdue biography of one of the giants of science in the twentieth century, Jan Hendrik Oort. His fundamental contributions had a lasting effect on the development of our insight and a profound influence on the international organization and cooperation in his area...
by Charles A. Oliver
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2019
The essentials of modern science clearly presented in a fun and easy-to-read manner.
"The author of this little book spent several years in composing his work, to the best of his ability, making the treatise brief and to the point, so that the reader may not become weary and misunderstand...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Stars are mostly found in binary and multiple systems, with at least 50% of all solar-like stars having companions; this fraction approaches 100% for the most massive stars. A large proportion of these systems interact and alter the structure and evolution of their components, leading to exotic objects...
by S. Indira Rani, Radhika Ramachandran, D. Bala Subrahamanyam
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2008 in the subject Physics - Astronomy, University of Kerala (Space Physics Laboratory, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre - Indian Space Research Organization, Dept. of Space, Govt. of INdia), course: Physics - Atmospheric Sciences, language: English, abstract:...
Searching African Skies
The Square Kilometre Array and South Africa's Quest to Hear the Songs of the Stars
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
An ambitious scientific project is unfolding in the desert of South Africa, with a multi-decade timeline that will eventually see expansion into Western Australia—a project that is detailed and celebrated in this book on the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). The SKA will be the largest and most sensitive...
The Comet Sweeper (Icon Science)
Caroline Herschel's Astronomical Ambition
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
Having escaped domestic servitude in Germany by teaching herself to sing, and established a career in England, Caroline Herschel learned astronomy while helping her brother William, then Astronomer Royal.
Soon making scientific discoveries in her own right, she swept to international scientific...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
These official final program mission reports issued by the NASA Johnson Space Center cover missions in 1990: STS-32, STS-36, STS-31, STS-41, STS-38, and STS-35. In these thorough reports, with information and specifics not available on NASA website mission descriptions, each orbiter system is reviewed...