Astrophysics Space Science category: 1588 books
by E. Walter Maunder
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
The plan of the present series requires each volume to be complete in about eighty small pages. But no adequate account of the achievements of astronomy can possibly be given within limits so narrow, for so small a space would not suffice for a mere catalogue of the results which have been obtained;...
Il caso Korolev
Korolev 1
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 26, 2019
Fantascienza - romanzo (201 pagine) - Un appassionante romanzo al di là del tempo che celebra l’amore per l’astronautica e gli eroi dell’esplorazione spaziale.
Nel 2084 la storia dell'astronautica ha fatto enormi passi avanti. È passato oltre un secolo da quando gli eroi della corsa...
by Claudio Vita-Finzi
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2019
There are several billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy. One of them is the middle-aged G2V yellow dwarf that rules our lives. The Sun Today discusses the Sun’s appearance and composition, its internal workings, and the various kinds of radiation it emits, and it puts forward a novel explanation...
Cosmic Impact
Understanding the Threat to Earth from Asteroids and Comets
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
As end-of-the-world scenarios go, an apocalyptic collision with an asteroid or comet is the new kid on the block, gaining respectability only in the last decade of the 20th century with the realisation that the dinosaurs had been wiped out by just such an impact.
Now the science community...
Adventures in Quantumland
Exploring Our Unseen Reality
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2019
This title is a self-contained follow-up to Understanding Our Unseen Reality: Solving Quantum Riddles (2015). Intended for the general reader but including more advanced material and an appendix of technical references for physics students and researchers, it reviews the basics of the transactional...
SPACE2018
Das aktuelle Raumfahrtjahr mit Chronik 2017
Language: German
Release Date: November 9, 2017
Die 15. Ausgabe des Raumfahrt-Klassikers. Nehmen Sie teil am großen Abenteuer unserer Zeit... Raumfahrt im 21. Jahrhundert: Spannender als Science Fiction. In den SPACE-Jahrbüchern halten wir für Sie die aktuellen Entwicklungen in der Raumfahrt fest. Sachkundig, pointiert, aktuell und spannend...
by Stephen Hawking
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A landmark volume in science writing by one of the great minds of our time, Stephen Hawking’s book explores such profound questions as: How did the universe begin—and what made its start possible? Does time always flow forward? Is the universe unending—or...
by Carlo Rovelli
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
**The New York Times bestseller from the author of The Order of Time and Reality Is Not What It Seems
“One of the year’s most entrancing books about science.”—The Wall Street Journal
“Clear, elegant...a whirlwind tour of some of the biggest ideas in physics.”—The New York...
Chasing New Horizons
Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Called "spellbinding" (Scientific American) and "thrilling...a future classic of popular science" (PW), the up close, inside story of the greatest space exploration project of our time, New Horizons’ mission to Pluto, as shared with David Grinspoon by mission leader Alan Stern...
First Light
The Search for the Edge of the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
Seven years before Richard Preston wrote about horrifying viruses in The Hot Zone, he turned his attention to the cosmos. In First Light, he demonstrates his gift for creating an exciting and absorbing narrative around a complex scientific subject--in this case the efforts by astronomers at the Palomar...
Black Hole
How an Idea Abandoned by Newtonians, Hated by Einstein, and Gambled On by Hawking Became Loved
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
"For more than half a century, physicists and astronomers engaged in heated dispute over the possibility of black holes in the universe. The weirdly alien notion of a space-time abyss from which nothing escapes—not even light—seemed to confound all logic. This engrossing book tells the story of the...
Mars Rover Curiosity
An Inside Account from Curiosity's Chief Engineer
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
The firsthand account of the trials and tribulations of engineering one of the most complex pieces of space technology, the Mars Rover Curiosity, by its chief engineer Rob Manning
In the course of our enduring quest for knowledge about ourselves and our universe, we haven't found answers to...
The Cygnus Mystery
Unlocking the Ancient Secret of Life's Origins in the Cosmos
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
The Cygnus Constellation holds the key to proving that life originated in the heavens—and will ultimately return there. Best-selling author Andrew Collins has uncovered an astronomy that is about 17,000 years old, with standing stones, temples, and monuments across the globe oriented towards Cygnus’s...
The Vortex Theory
A Bridge between Ancient Yoga and Modern Physics
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2015
Thousands of years ago in ancient India, Yogis probed the atom with supernormal powers called siddhis. What they saw was subatomic particles as vortices of energy. That insight gave rise to maya the illusion of forms. Anticipating Einstein, Yogis realised everything is energy. There is no material...