Astrophysics Space Science category: 1588 books
by Peter Coles
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2001
This book is a simple, non-technical introduction to cosmology, explaining what it is and what cosmologists do. Peter Coles discusses the history of the subject, the development of the Big Bang theory, and more speculative modern issues like quantum cosmology, superstrings, and dark matter. ABOUT...
by Frank Close
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
What are neutrinos? Why does nature need them? What use are they?Neutrinos are perhaps the most enigmatic particles in the universe. Formed in certain radioactive decays, they pass through most matter with ease. These tiny, ghostly particles are formed in millions in the Sun and pass through us constantly....
Dark Mission
The Secret History of NASA, Enlarged and Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
The New York Times bestseller about the strange history of NASA and its cover-ups regarding its origins and extraterrestrial architecture found on the moon and Mars is even more interesting in its new edition.Authors Richard C. Hoagland and Mike Bara include a new chapter about the discoveries...
De melodie van de natuur
De zoektocht naar de bouwstenen van het heelal
Language: Dutch
Release Date: February 15, 2018
In De melodie van de natuur neemt Ivo van Vulpen ons mee in de zoektocht naar de kleinste bouwstenen van de natuur. Het is een ongekend spannend avontuur, waarin het de wetenschap lukt om steeds dieper door te dringen in een mysterieuze wereld die we met het blote oog allang niet meer kunnen zien....
Five Billion Years of Solitude
The Search for Life Among the Stars
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
“A definitive guide to astronomy’s hottest field.” —The Economist
Since its formation nearly five billion years ago, our planet has been the sole living world in a vast and silent universe. But over the past two decades, astronomers have discovered thousands of “exoplanets,”...
Kids Book of Questions. Why do the Stars..?
Trivia for Kids Of All Ages In - Astronomy
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2015
The song “Twinkle, twinkle little star” just got more interesting with this starry book. Your curious little one will find this resource valuable because it briefly but adequately discusses some of the most commonly asked questions about the night sky. Expect your children to know more about the night sky and astronomy, in general, the more he/she reads this book.
by Dirk Bontes
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
KIC 8462852 was thought to be a non-descript star. Then suddenly it dimmed for a day! And later once again! Next it was shown to have gradually reduced its light strength for the last century. What causes this unexpected, far out of the ordinary behavior? What obscures the light from this star? Birds?...
by Michael Spears
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
On this, the 100th anniversary of the theory of General Relativity, comes the first real challenge to Einstein in a century. This is a complete theory of time, gravity and the infinite universe developed from first principles. This book comes in three parts, gravitational time dilation, visualising gravity in four dimensions, and black holes, the big bang and the super-universe.
Bioenergemal Communication with Alien Bioenergemes
Homo bioenergemae universalis
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2019
Aliens is a highly debated topic, sometimes in favour others against it. Once again, we introduce more than fifty bioenergemal communications (BELCs) that for over the years we have presumably had, amongst others, with the bioenergeme of Khriannia, an extraterrestrial woman, occasionally with some...
L’esplorazione dell’universo
La rivoluzione che sta svelando il cosmo
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 2, 2017
«Se volete comprendere le grandi idee che stanno modellando la cosmologia contemporanea, dovete leggere questo libro».
Adam G. Riess, premio Nobel per la Fisica, 2011
Per millenni l’universo è stato sinonimo della volta stellata che ci sovrasta e noi ne eravamo il centro. Con la modernità...
The Doomsday Calculation
How an Equation that Predicts the Future Is Transforming Everything We Know About Life and the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
From the author of Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?, a fascinating look at how an equation that foretells the future is transforming everything we know about life, business, and the universe.
In the 18th century, the British minister and mathematician Thomas Bayes devised a theorem that...
Spectrums
Our Mind-boggling Universe from Infinitesimal to Infinity
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
In Spectrums, David Blatner blends narrative and illustration to illuminate the variety of spectrums that affect our lives every day: numbers, size, light, sound, heat, and time.There is actually surprisingly little in the universe that we can feel, touch, see, hear, or possibly even comprehend. It's...
A History of the Universe
Volume I: Complexity
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2006
Take a mind blowing journey beyond the furthest stars, from the Big Bang to the end of time. Witness the evolution of complexity, from organic chemistry to the Dinosaurs. Probe the deepest recesses of the human mind in search consciousness itself. It's all here in this dazzling first volume of Henry Kong's history of the Universe.
by Victor W. Hatch
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
This is the most significant breakthrough in over 100 years. Scientists, such as Einstein, Hawking and others have been seeking a “Grand Unified Theory, GUT” that would unify electromagnetic, gravity and other forces without success. Since the force of gravity is an electrical force their search...