Astronomy category: 2403 books
Beginner’s Guide to Astronomy: Easy guide to stargazing, the latest discoveries, resources for beginners, and more!
Astronomy for Beginners, #1
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
You don’t have to be an astronomer or an expert to appreciate this book. This book is perfect for beginners because everything is explained in simple terms. You will be drawn into the fundamentals about the universe, like, how did it come about; the theories surrounding it, including the much talked...
by Govert Schilling
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Offers a unique combination of informative text, magnificent illustrations and stylish design
Examines the 100 most important discoveries since the invention of the telescope
Features spectacular photographs, taken with the largest telescopes on Earth and in space, that portray distant corners of the...
The Universal Book of Astronomy
From the Andromeda Galaxy to the Zone of Avoidance
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2003
The ultimate guide to the final frontier
This alphabetical tour of the universe provides all the history, science, and up-to-the-minute facts needed to explore the skies with authority. Packed with more than 3,000 entries that cover everything from major observatories and space telescopes to...
Making Stars Physical
The Astronomy of Sir John Herschel
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2018
Making Stars Physical offers the first extensive look at the astronomical career of John Herschel, son of William Herschel and one of the leading scientific figures in Britain throughout much of the nineteenth century. Herschel’s astronomical career is usually relegated to a continuation of his...
by Tatiana Danina
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Continuation of the teachings of the Himalayan Adept, Djwhal Khul. A new look at questions of astronomy and cosmology. Review and explanation of the set of astronomical questions.
by David A. Weintraub
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
Astronomers have determined that our universe is 13.7 billion years old. How exactly did they come to this precise conclusion? How Old Is the Universe? tells the incredible story of how astronomers solved one of the most compelling mysteries in science and, along the way, introduces readers to fundamental...
Gravitational-Wave Physics and Astronomy
An Introduction to Theory, Experiment and Data Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
This most up-to-date, one-stop reference combines coverage of both theory and observational techniques, with introductory sections to bring all readers up to the same level. Written by outstanding researchers directly involved with the scientific program of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave...
The 50 Best Sights in Astronomy and How to See Them
Observing Eclipses, Bright Comets, Meteor Showers, and Other Celestial Wonders
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2007
"Fred Schaaf is one of the most experienced astronomical observers of our time. For more than two decades, his view of the sky--what will be visible, when it will be visible, and what it will look like--has encouraged tens of thousands of people to turn their eyes skyward."
--David H. Levy,...
by Henry White Warren
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
The invention of the telescope constituted one era in Astronomy; its perfection in our day, another; and the discoveries of the spectroscope a third—no less important than either of the others. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely...
Early Investigations of Ceres and the Discovery of Pallas
Historical Studies in Asteroid Research
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
An asteroid scholar, Cunningham in this book picks up where his Discovery of the First Asteroid, Ceres left off in telling the story of the impact created by the discovery of this new class of object in the early 1800s. The best and brightest minds of mathematics, science, and philosophy were fascinated...
To Measure the Sky
An Introduction to Observational Astronomy
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
The second edition of this popular text provides undergraduates with a quantitative yet accessible introduction to the physical principles underlying the collection and analysis of observational data in contemporary optical and infrared astronomy. The text clearly links recent developments in ground-...
by C. R. Kitchin
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2012
“Telescopes and Techniques” has proved itself in its first edition, having become probably one of the most widely used astronomy texts, both for numerate amateur astronomers and for astronomy and astrophysics undergraduates. The first and second editions of the book were widely used as set texts...
Unseen Cosmos
The Universe in Radio
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Radio telescopes have transformed our understanding of the Universe. Pulsars, quasars, Big Bang cosmology: all are discoveries of the new science of radio astronomy. Here, Francis Graham-Smith describes the birth, development, and maturity of radio astronomy, from the first discovery of cosmic radio...
Weird Weather
Tales of Astronomical and Atmospheric Anomalies
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
This book is, in a sense, a sequel to David Seargent's first Springer book Weird Astronomy (2010). Whereas Weird Astronomy extended over a broad range of purely astronomical topics, the present work concentrates on phenomena closer to home; the atmospheric and "shallow space" events as...