Astrophysics category: 1588 books
by W. M. Smart
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 1977
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 1977
This well-established textbook gives a general but comprehensive introduction to positional astronomy. Originally based on the author's lecture courses at Cambridge University, it is intended primarily for undergraduates, but, due to its comprehensive nature, it is a very useful reference text for...
Apollo Mission Control
The Making of a National Historic Landmark
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
This book describes the history of this now iconic room which represents America’s space program during the Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, Apollo-Soyuz and early Space Shuttle eras. It is now a National Historic Landmark and is being restored to a level which represents the day the flight control teams...
From Cave Man to Cave Martian
Living in Caves on the Earth, Moon and Mars
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2019
This book explores the practicality of using the existing subsurface geology on the Moon and Mars for protection against radiation, thermal extremes, micrometeorites and dust storms rather than building surface habitats at great expense at least for those first few missions. It encourages NASA...
Elastisch universum
ABC van de baanbrekende ideeën van Erik Verlinde
Language: Dutch
Release Date: November 18, 2016
De Nederlandse natuurkundige Erik Verlinde (hoogleraar aan de UvA) wordt wel de nieuwe Einstein genoemd. In de verhitte strijd die wordt gevoerd over mogelijke verklaringen voor de onbegrepen 95 procent van ons universum, komt hij met een fundamenteel nieuw idee. Het hoort bij de overkoepelende theorie...
Exoplanets
Hidden Worlds and the Quest for Extraterrestrial Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2018
Astronomers have recently discovered thousands of exotic planets that orbit stars throughout our Milky Way galaxy. With his characteristic wit and style, Donald Goldsmith shows how these observations have already broadened our planetary horizons, and tells us what may come next, including the ultimate discovery: life beyond our home planet.
Keplerian Ellipses
The Physics of the Gravitational Two-Body Problem
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2019
The development of man's understanding of planetary motions is the crown jewel of Newtonian mechanics.
This book offers a concise but self-contained handbook-length treatment of this historically important topic for students at about the third-year-level of an undergraduate physics curriculum....
Advanced Detectors for Nuclear, High Energy and Astroparticle Physics
Proceedings of ADNHEAP 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
The book presents high-quality papers presented at a national conference on ‘Advanced Detectors for Nuclear, High Energy and Astroparticle Physics’. The conference was organized to commemorate 100 years of Bose Institute. The book is based on the theme of the conference and provides a clear picture...
Black Holes
A Student Text
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
This book provides an accessible introduction to the fascinating and topical subject of black holes. It bridges the gap between popular non-mathematical expositions and advanced research texts, using simple undergraduate level calculations and the most basic knowledge of relativity to explain current...
by Ali Haidar Sulaiman
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
This thesis focuses on the very high Mach number shock wave that is located sunward of Saturn's strong magnetic field in the continuous high-speed flow of charged particles from the Sun (the solar wind). The author exploits the fact that the Cassini spacecraft is the only orbiter in a unique parameter...
by Lev Dorman
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
Short Historical Overview In the 1940s, two phenomena in the ?eld of cosmic rays (CR) forced scientists to think that the Sun is a powerful source of high-energy particles. One of these was discovered because of the daily solar variation of CR, which the maximum number of CR observed near noon (referring...
Galaxies
Les Grands Articles d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Partez à la découverte des galaxies avec ce Grand Article Universalis !
L'observation à l'œil nu d'un ciel constellé d'étoiles montre que celles-ci ne sont pas réparties au hasard: elles tendent à se regrouper en une longue écharpe laiteuse qui parcourt la voûte céleste d'un bord...
Météorites
Les Grands Articles d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Les météorites sont des objets naturels venant de l'espace et atteignant la Terre. Bien qu'elles aient été signalées dès l'Antiquité, la première des chutes de pierres bien observée, et dont il existe encore des échantillons, est celle qui est survenue le 16 novembre 1492, à Ensisheim en Alsace,...
Exoplanètes
Les Grands Articles d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Partez à la découverte des exoplanètes avec ce Grand Article Universalis !
Depuis 1995, année de la découverte de la première exoplanète, 51 Pegasi b, de nombreux corps célestes de ce type ont été mis en évidence. Encore appelées planètes extrasolaires, les exoplanètes, dont...
Jupiter
Les Grands Articles d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Jupiter , la plus grosse et la plus massive des planètes, constitue le centre d'un vaste système de satellites et d'anneaux étudié de près par plusieurs sondes spatiales: Pioneer-10 en décembre 1973, Pioneer-11 en décembre 1974, Voyager-1 en mars 1979, Voyager-2 en juillet 1979 , Ulysses en février...