Astronomy category: 2403 books
by O-O Happiness
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
Stop to think about this one simple little fact.
Our species exists only on the Earth - we have all our eggs in the one basket.
One simple mishap could wipe out all of humankind, every single moment of our existence would become worthless overnight.
Or we could show some intelligence and actually...
by Jeannie Meekins
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
We see stars in the night sky as pretty, twinkling objects, but what exactly are they?
A lot of the information we find out about stars, helps us understand other objects; pulsars, quasars, galaxies – even the origin of our universe. Here are some fun facts about stars.
Do stars twinkle?
What...
by Jeannie Meekins
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
TV and movies will have you believing that black holes are huge holes in space and anything that falls into them is lost for all time – possibly falling into another universe or another time, or even falling forever.
You may think that black holes run around in space like huge vacuum cleaners sucking...
Heavenly Intrigue
Johannes Kepler, Tycho Brahe, and the Murder Behind One of History's Greatest Scientific Discoveries
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2005
Heavenly Intrigue is the fascinating, true account of the seventeenth-century collaboration between Johannes Kepler and Tycho Brahe that revolutionized our understanding of the universe–and ended in murder.One of history’s greatest geniuses, Kepler laid the foundations of modern physics with his...
by David Goodstein, Judith R. Goodstein
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2009
"Glorious."—Wall Street Journal
Rescued from obscurity, Feynman's Lost Lecture is a blessing for all Feynman followers. Most know Richard Feynman for the hilarious anecdotes and exploits in his best-selling books "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" and "What Do You...
DIY Satellite Platforms
Building a Space-Ready General Base Picosatellite for Any Mission
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Want to build your own satellite and launch it into space? It’s easier than you may think. The first in a series of four books, this do-it-yourself guide shows you the essential steps needed to design a base picosatellite platform—complete with a solar-powered computer-controlled assembly—tough...
Dinosaurs and Creation
Questions and Answers
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2000
Children, adults, and scientists alike are fascinated by dinosaurs. However, nearly all discussions of dinosaurs in museums and textbooks assume a distant evolutionary beginning to the earth. How can Christians reconcile apparent scientific consensus with the biblical creation story?
Donald...
by Andrew King
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Every atom of our bodies has been part of a star. Our very own star, the Sun, is crucial to the development and sustainability of life on Earth. This Very Short Introduction presents a modern, authoritative examination of how stars live, producing all the chemical elements beyond helium, and how they...
The Universe
A Historical Survey of Beliefs, Theories, and Laws
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
The universe has been both a subject of study and supplier of fresh mysteries. This book tackles a topic that is infinitely broad with extreme precision and careful organization, bringing the far reaches of the universe squarely into the hands and minds of readers.
Dreamland
Travels Inside the Secret World of Roswell and Area 51
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
There is a place in the Nevada desert the size of Belgium that doesn't officially exist. It is the airbase where test flights of our top-secret experimental military aircraft are conducted and --not coincidentally--where the conspiracy theorists insist the Pentagon is hiding UFOs and aliens. This...
by Jeannie Meekins
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
What is a Space Shuttle?
How can something that can’t fly go into space?
Do spiders spin webs in space?
Do astronauts get space sick?
This book answers all these questions and more, plus everybody’s favorite: How do astronauts go to the toilet?
This book was written in 2007, prior to the end of...
The Shadow of Black Holes
An Analytic Description
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2016
This book introduces an analytic method to describe the shadow of black holes. As an introduction, it presents a survey of the attempts to observe the shadow of galactic black holes. Based on a detailed discussion of the Plebański–Demiański class of space-times, the book derives analytical formulas...
A Visual Astronomer's Photographic Guide to the Deep Sky
A Pocket Field Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Over the last 15 years or so there has been a huge increase in the popularity of astrophotography with the advent of digital SLR cameras and CCD imagers. These have enabled astronomers to take many images and, indeed, check images as they scan the skies. Processing techniques using computer software...
The Birth of NASA
The Work of the Space Task Group, America's First True Space Pioneers
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
This is the story of the work of the original NASA space pioneers; men and women who were suddenly organized in 1958 from the then National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics (NACA) into the Space Task Group. A relatively small group, they developed the initial mission concept plans and procedures...