Astronomy category: 2403 books
StarTalk
Everything You Ever Need to Know About Space Travel, Sci-Fi, the Human Race, the Universe, and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
This illustrated companion to the popular podcast and National Geographic Channel show is an eye-opening journey for anyone curious about our universe, space, astronomy and the complexities of the cosmos.
For decades, beloved astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has interpreted science with...
Planetary Crusts
Their Composition, Origin and Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
Planetary Crusts explains how and why solid planets and satellites develop crusts. Extensively referenced and annotated, it presents a geochemical and geological survey of the crusts of the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars, the asteroid Vesta, and several satellites like Io, Europa, Ganymede,...
Earth
Evolution of a Habitable World
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
Fully updated throughout, including revised illustrations and new images from NASA missions, this new edition provides an overview of Earth's history from a planetary science perspective for Earth science undergraduates. Earth's evolution is described in the context of what we know about other planets...
Introduction to Astrochemistry
Chemical Evolution from Interstellar Clouds to Star and Planet Formation
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
This important book describes the basic principles of astrochemistry—an interdisciplinary field combining astronomy, physics, and chemistry—with particular emphasis on its physical and chemical background. Chemical processes in diffuse clouds, dense quiescent molecular clouds, star-forming regions,...
Galaxies in the Universe
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2007
This extensively illustrated book presents the astrophysics of galaxies since their beginnings in the early Universe. It has been thoroughly revised to take into account the most recent observational data, and recent discoveries such as dark energy. There are new sections on galaxy clusters, gamma...
Life beyond Earth
The Search for Habitable Worlds in the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
What is life and where can it exist? What searches are being made to identify conditions for life on other worlds? If extraterrestrial inhabited worlds are found, how can we explore them? In this book, two leading astrophysicists provide an engaging account of where we stand in our quest for habitable...
Beyond the Stars
Our Origins and the Search for Life in The Universe
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
What is the origin of the universe? Are we alone in the Universe? Using clear and plain language, the author explores these two interesting scientific-philosophical themes with a broad range of studies, including astronomy, cosmology, chemistry, biology, geology and planet science.
The first...
Talking about Life
Conversations on Astrobiology
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2010
With over 500 planets now known to exist beyond the Solar System, spacecraft heading for Mars, and the ongoing search for extraterrestrial intelligence, this timely book explores current ideas about the search for life in the Universe. It contains candid interviews with dozens of astronomers, geologists,...
From Dust to Life
The Origin and Evolution of Our Solar System
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
The birth and evolution of our solar system is a tantalizing mystery that may one day provide answers to the question of human origins. From Dust to Life tells the remarkable story of how the celestial objects that make up the solar system arose from common beginnings billions of years ago, and how...
Star Watch
The Amateur Astronomer's Guide to Finding, Observing, and Learning about Over 125 Celestial Objects
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2008
Your Passport to the Universe
The night sky is alive with many wonders--distant planets, vast star clusters, glowing nebulae, and expansive galaxies, all waiting to be explored. Let respected astronomy writer Philip Harrington introduce you to the universe in Star Watch, a complete beginner's...
The Brightest Stars
Discovering the Universe through the Sky's Most Brilliant Stars
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2008
"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 Eric Priest
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Magnetohydrodynamics of the Sun is a completely new up-to-date rewrite from scratch of the 1982 book Solar Magnetohydrodynamics, taking account of enormous advances in understanding since that date. It describes the subtle and complex interaction between the Sun's plasma atmosphere and its magnetic...
50 Years of Brown Dwarfs
From Prediction to Discovery to Forefront of Research
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
The years 2012/2013 mark the 50th anniversary of the theoretical prediction that Brown Dwarfs, i.e. degenerate objects which are just not massive enough to sustain stable hydrogen fusion, exist. Some 20 years after their discovery, how Brown Dwarfs form is still one of the main open questions in the...
Dispatches from Planet 3
Thirty-Two (Brief) Tales on the Solar System, the Milky Way, and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
An award-winning science writer presents a captivating collection of cosmological essays for the armchair astronomer
The galaxy, the multiverse, and the history of astronomy are explored in this engaging compilation of cosmological “tales” by multiple award†‘winning science writer Marcia...