Astrophysics category: 1588 books
TIME John Glenn
A Hero's Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
On Feb. 20, 1962, astronaut John Glenn spent four hours and 56 minutes in space, orbiting Earth three times in one of the most highly anticipated events in American history. The thrilling mission propelled the U.S. in its space race against Russia, and Glenn became a national hero the moment he splashed...
Hyperspace
A Scientific Odyssey through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 1994
Are there other dimensions beyond our own? Is time travel possible? Can we change the past? Are there gateways to parallel universes? All of us have pondered such questions, but there was a time when scientists dismissed these notions as outlandish speculations. Not any more. Today, they are the focus...
Aliens
The World's Leading Scientists on the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
In these lively and fascinating essays, scientists from around the world weigh in on the latest advances in the search for intelligent life in the universe and discuss just what that might look like. Since 2000, science has seen a surge in data and interest on several fronts related to E.T. (extraterrestrials);...
by Adam Frank
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Astrophysicist and NPR commentator on what the latest research on the existence and trajectories of alien civilizations may teach us about our own.
Light of the Stars tells the story of humanity’s coming of age as we awaken to the possibilities of life on other worlds and their sudden relevance...
Mapping the Heavens
The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
This book provides a tour of the “greatest hits” of cosmological discoveries—the ideas that reshaped our universe over the past century. The cosmos, once understood as a stagnant place, filled with the ordinary, is now a universe that is expanding at an accelerating pace, propelled by dark energy...
Apollo's Fire
A Journey Through the Extraordinary Wonders of an Ordinary Day
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2008
It?s the oldest story on Earth. You relive it every day.
So much of our shared daily experience in the world is shaped by the sometimes dramatic, sometimes subtle effects of the Earth?s spin, its tilt on its axis, the alternation of light and darkness, the waxing and waning of the moon, the...
Seeing in the Dark
How Amateur Astronomers Are Discovering the Wonder
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
In Seeing in the Dark, a poetic love letter to science and to the skies, Timothy Ferris invites us all to become stargazers. He recounts his own experiences as an enthralled lifelong amateur astronomer and reports from around the globe -- from England and Italy to the Florida Keys and the Chilean...
by Carrie Nugent
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
For the first time, scientists could have the knowledge to prevent a natural disaster epic in scale—an asteroid hitting the earth and in this exciting, adventuresome book, Carrie Nugent explains how.
What are asteroids, and where do they come from? And, most urgently: Are they going to hit...
One Two Three . . . Infinity
Facts and Speculations of Science
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
". . . full of intellectual treats and tricks, of whimsy and deep scientific philosophy. It is highbrow entertainment at its best, a teasing challenge to all who aspire to think about the universe." — New York Herald Tribune
One of the world's foremost nuclear physicists (celebrated for...
Parallax
The Race to Measure the Cosmos
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2002
In the dramatic tradition of the best-selling Longitude, Parallax charts the historical path of observational astronomy's most daunting challenge: measuring the distance to a star.
The greatest scientific minds applied themselves in vain to the problem across the millennia, beginning with the...
Unified Principles of Physics
Black Holes, Galactic Structure, Gravity, and Dark Matter
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
The search for the “Unified Principles of Physics” which describes all that we see has long been the quest of many scientists and the general public. Newton, Einstein, Hawking and many more have all put their ideas into the flow of time … But many unanswered mysteries remained … These mysteries...
Picturing the Cosmos
Hubble Space Telescope Images and the Astronomical Sublime
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2012
The vivid, dramatic images of distant stars and galaxies taken by the Hubble Space Telescope have come to define how we visualize the cosmos. In their immediacy and vibrancy, photographs from the Hubble show what future generations of space travelers might see should they venture beyond our solar system....
Gravity's Fatal Attraction
Black Holes in the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2009
Richly illustrated with the images from observatories on the ground and in space, and computer simulations, this book shows how black holes were discovered, and discusses our current understanding of their role in cosmic evolution. This second edition covers new discoveries made in the past decade,...
by Maz Shams
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2012
21st Dec, 2012What’s the reality behind 2012 predictions? Is it really going to happen what they showed in the movie? Who were the Mayans? How did they predicted our future? What are the doomsday predictions ? How did all this fuss originated? Where are the scientific facts?This book...