Astrophysics Space Science category: 1588 books
Stellar Pulsations
Impact of New Instrumentation and New Insights
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2012
Analyses of photometric time series obtained from the MOST, CoRoT and Kepler space missions were presented at the 20th conference on Stellar Pulsations (Granada, September 2011). These results are leading to a re-appraisal of our views on stellar pulsation in some stars and posing some new and unexpected...
Fifty Years of Quasars
From Early Observations and Ideas to Future Research
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
The 50th anniversary of the discovery of quasars in 1963 presents an interesting opportunity to ask questions about the current state of quasar research. Formatted as a series of interviews with noted researchers in the field, each of them asked to address a specific set of questions covering topics...
by Dylan Clearfield
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
There still exists the remains of many lost worlds from the past on Mars. Modern types of cities, sites of ceremonial stone circles, partially intact highway systems and the remains of a crashed space ship of alien origin scattered amidst the rocky ground are some of the images highlighted in this...
by Islam atef
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
I love the Universe and I know almost everything about it and I love to do hard calculations, mostly because I like Omnipotence and Infinity and I am still trying to work out Infinity x Infinity and Omnipotence of beyond Infinity and beyond Omnipotence itself in impossible, incomprehensible infinity...
by O. Richard Norton, Dorothy S. Northon
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Every product we use, every new invention we create, every single thing we surround ourselves with comes from this Earth, with one exception—meteorites. These exotic rocks have experienced journeys of cosmic proportions by the time we lay eyes on them. In the bitter cold temperatures of space, powerful...
by Martin Bo Nielsen
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
In his PhD dissertation Martin Bo Nielsen performs observational studies of rotation in stars like the Sun. The interior rotation in stars is thought to be one of the driving mechanisms of stellar magnetic activity, but until now this mechanism was unconstrained by observational data.
NASA’s...
by Daniel Radu, Ioan Merches, Dorian Tatomir
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
Modern physics is characterized by two great theories, which make it fundamentally different from its predecessor: quantum theory and theory of relativity. In this book we want to bring to the reader's attention several solutions to problems connected to the quantum-relativistic interaction of particles....
John F. Kennedy
from Florida to the Moon
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2019
It was September 12, 1962, when Pres. John F. Kennedy delivered a speech at Rice University before nearly 50,000 people. By that time, America had launched but four men into space--the suborbital flights of Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom and the nearly identical three-orbit journeys of John Glenn and...
The Moon Hoax?
Conspiracy Theories on Trial
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2019
This book is about the American moon-landings – and about the doubts expressed ever since concerning the reality of these landings. Were the images of men on the moon really just a huge and cleverly executed hoax? Eversberg explains the best-known claims and conspiracy theories, and analyses the...
Projet Icarus, vers les étoiles
Entretien avec Andreas Tziolas
Language: French
Release Date: February 9, 2016
A la conquête des étoiles avec Andreas Tziolas et le projet Icarus !Icarus Interstellar est une organisation internationale qui se consacre au développement de vaisseaux interstellaires et aux innovations techniques permettant le voyage au-delà du système solaire. La recherche, conduite par des...
Star Clusters in the Era of Large Surveys
Proceedings of Symposium 5 of JENAM 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
The symposium “Star Clusters in the Era of Large Surveys” was held in Lisbon on Sep 9-10 during the JENAM 2010. It served as a platform for discussing what and how recent, on-going and planned large-area ground-based and space-based surveys can contribute to producing a major leap in this research...
The Invisible Sky
Rosat and the Age of X-Ray Astronomy
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
ROSAT, the ROentgen SATellite launched in 1990, has revealed an entirely new aspect of the night sky - that of objects emitting X-rays rather than the rays of light visible to the human eye. This lavishly illustrated book is the first to describe one of the most remarkable instruments in modern astronomy....
XIth International Astronautical Congress Stockholm 1960 / XI. Internationaler Astronautischer Kongress / XIe Congrès International D’Astronautique
Proceedings Vol. III Third Colloquium on the Law of Outer Space
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Moon Landing
A Chronology of the Apollo Missions
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
It was February 1966. A Saturn V rocket began a suborbital unmanned test flight with the Apollo Command Module for the first time. A Saturn Orbital test flight followed, without the Apollo Spaceship, in July 1966; a further flight with the Apollo Command Module took off in August 1966. The Saturn...