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by Neil English
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
Choosing and Using a Refracting Telescope has been written for the many amateur astronomers who already own, or are intending to purchase, a refracting telescope – perhaps to complement their existing arsenal of larger reflecting telescopes – or for the specialist who requires a particular refractor...
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Exploring the Solar System and Beyond in Khmer
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2015
ស្វែងយល់ពីប្រព័ន្ធព្រះអាទិត្យនិងគោលដៅលើសពីនេះគឺដើម្បីបំពេញចិត្តរបស់អ្នកជាមួយនឹងការចាប់ផ្តើមក្បាលដើម្បីឱ្យដឹងថាការអភិវឌ្ឍវិទ្យាសាស្រ្តភពក្នុងអាយុអវកាសទំនើបជាមួយនឹង...
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Exploring the Solar System and Beyond in Hmong
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2015
Tshawb txug hnub ci zog thiab cov Beyond lub hom phiaj yog sau koj lub siab nrog ib lub taub hau pib paub txog cov kev loj hlob ntawm planetary science nyob rau hauv lub niaj hnub Muaj hnub nyoog chaw nrog no eBook. Lub eBook yog ib qho yooj yim siv, refreshing thiab yuav lav yuav tsum muaj siab!...
by Nam Nguyen
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Exploring the Solar System and Beyond’s goal is to fill your mind with a head start to knowing the development of planetary science in the modern Space Age with this eBook. The eBook is easy to use, refreshing and is guaranteed to be exciting! You can read this eBook without any prior knowledge...
Discovering Eris
The Symbolism and Significance of a New Planetary Archetype
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
In astrology, each planet in our solar system is symbolically associated with specific archetypes, characteristics, themes and patterns in human experience. The discovery in 2005 of Eris -- a dwarf planet beyond Pluto -- was therefore an event of great significance for astrology as well as astronomy....
by David H. Lyth
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
This book gives an accessible account of the history of the Universe; not only what happened, but why it happened. An author of textbooks on the early Universe and inflation, David Lyth now explains both cosmology and the underlying physics to the general reader. The book includes a detailed account...
Celestial Delights
The Best Astronomical Events Through 2020
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2011
Celestial Delights is essentially a 'TV Guide' for teh sky. This will be its third edition. This title, which has aggregated sales of about 20,000 copies to date in its two previous editions and has found a niche with skygazers, is much awaited.
Through extensive graphics integrated with an...
Exoplanet Atmospheres
Physical Processes
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2010
Over the past twenty years, astronomers have identified hundreds of extrasolar planets--planets orbiting stars other than the sun. Recent research in this burgeoning field has made it possible to observe and measure the atmospheres of these exoplanets. This is the first textbook to describe the basic...
Earth-Shattering
Violent Supernovas, Galactic Explosions, Biological Mayhem, Nuclear Meltdowns, and Other Hazards to Life in Our Universe
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
A heart-pumping exploration of the biggest explosions in history, from the Big Bang to mysterious activity on Earth and everything in between
The overwhelming majority of celestial space is inactive and will remain forever unruffled. Similarly, more than 90 percent of the universe's 70 billion...
Strange Universe
The Weird and Wild Science of Everyday Life--on Earth and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
"Touches on a dizzying array of subjects, including UV rays, inert gases, fossils, meteorites, microwaves, rainbows . . . Like many a good teacher, Berman uses humor to entertain his audience and liven things up." —Los Angeles Times
Bob Berman is motivated by a straightforward philosophy:...
The Expanding Universe
A Primer on Relativistic Cosmology
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Cosmology - the science of the Universe at large - has experienced a renaissance in the decades bracketing the turn of the twenty-first century. Exploring our emerging understanding of cosmology, this text takes two complementary points of view: the physical principles underlying theories of cosmology,...
Theoretical Astrophysics
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Beginning from first principles and adopting a modular structure, this book develops the fundamental physical methods needed to describe and understand a wide range of seemingly very diverse astrophysical phenomena and processes. For example, the discussion of radiation processes including their spectra...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
These official final program mission reports issued by the NASA Johnson Space Center cover missions in 1994: STS-60, STS-62, STS-59, STS-65, STS-64, STS-68, and STS-66. In these thorough reports, with information and specifics not available on NASA website mission descriptions, each orbiter system...
The Planets
Photographs from the Archives of NASA
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
This magnificent volume offers a rich visual tour of the planets in our solar system. More than 200 breathtaking photographs from the archives of NASA are paired with extended captions detailing the science behind some of our cosmic neighborhood's most extraordinary phenomena. Images of newly discovered...