Astrophysics category: 1588 books
by Max R. Schmidt
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 23, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 23, 2016
¿Pudieran los datos que muestran un clarísimo descenso del brillo de Tabby ser la evidencia de la paulatina construcción de una Esfera Dyson alienígena por una civilización avanzada? ¿Una enorme estructura parte del sistema estelar diseñada para captar tanta energía como sea posible de la...
From the Realm of the Nebulae to Populations of Galaxies
Dialogues on a Century of Research
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
In order to outline possible future directions in galaxy research, this book wants to be a short stopover, a moment of self-reflection of the past century of achievements in this area.
Since the pioneering years of galaxy research in the early 20th century, the research on galaxies has seen...
Nothing To Come
A Defence of the Growing Block Theory of Time
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
This monograph is a detailed study, and systematic defence, of the Growing Block Theory of time (GBT), first conceived by C.D. Broad. The book offers a coherent, logically perspicuous and ideologically lean formulation of GBT, defends it against the most notorious objections to be found in the extant...
Nonlinear Optics of Photonic Crystals and Meta-Materials
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Jet physics is an incredibly rich subject detailing the narrow cone of hadrons and other particles produced by the hadronization of a quark or gluon in a particle physics or heavy ion experiment. This book is a general overview of jet physics for scientists not directly involved in the field. It presents...
Measurements of Spin-Orbit Angles for Transiting Systems
Toward an Understanding of the Migration History of Exoplanets
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
This thesis presents accurate analyses of the spin-orbit angle for many remarkable transiting exoplanetary systems, including the first measurement of the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect for a multiple transiting system.
The author presents the observational methods needed to probe the...
General Relativity
A First Examination
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
This textbook is suitable for a one-semester introduction to General Relativity for advanced undergraduates in physics and engineering. The book is concise so that the entire material can be covered in the one-semester time frame. Besides, the readers are introduced to the subject easily without the...
by Wayne J. Lutz
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2016
Tannon Bessimer is an amateur astronomer who has discovered an object that is inbound to our solar system. And it’s getting the world's attention. The final destination is unknown, but if earth is the target, communication is the key. But the UFO is silent – until Tannon becomes the unexpected...
by Chandra Wickramasinghe, Kamala Wickramasinghe
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
This is the story of the author's unique scientific journey with one of the most remarkable men of 20th century science. The journey begins in Sri Lanka, the author's native country, with his childhood acquaintance with Fred Hoyle's writings. The action then moves to Cambridge, where the famous Hoyle–Wickramasinghe...
by Charles A. Young, Ph. D.
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
1. Astronomy is the science which treats of the heavenly bodies. As such bodies we reckon the sun and moon, the planets (of which the earth is one) and their satellites, comets and meteors, and finally the stars and nebulae.
We have to consider in Astronomy: (a) The motions of these bodies,...
Spacefarers
Images of Astronauts and Cosmonauts in the Heroic Era of Spaceflight
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
The recent 50th anniversaries of the first human spaceflights by the Soviet Union and the United States, and the 30th anniversary of the launching of the first U.S. Space Shuttle mission, have again brought to mind the pioneering accomplishments of the first quarter century of humans in space. Historians,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
In recent years there has been increasing interest in issues of space and spatiality in the social sciences and humanities generally, if less so in the study of education. This relative lack of interest is surprising given the importance of space and time in the organization of teaching, learning...
Discovering the Cosmos with Small Spacecraft
The American Explorer Program
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
Explorer was the original American space program and Explorer 1 its first satellite, launched in 1958. Sixty years later, it is the longest continuously running space program in the world, demonstrating to the world how we can explore the cosmos with small spacecraft. Almost a hundred Explorers have...
by Andrew May
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
Whether you’re interested in visiting Apollo landing sites or the locations of classic sci-fi movies, this is the tourist guide for you! This tourist guide has a twist – it is a guide to a whole different world, which you can visit from the comfort of your backyard with the aid of nothing more...
Habitability of the Universe before Earth
Astrobiology: Exploring Life on Earth and Beyond (series)
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2017
Habitability of the Universe before Earth: Astrobiology: Exploring Life on Earth and Beyond (series) examines the times and places—before life existed on Earth—that might have provided suitable environments for life to occur, addressing the question: Is life on Earth de novo, or derived from previous...