Astrophysics category: 1588 books

You can discover your own revolutionary ideas if you read this book, look for the right photos and identify ancient artifacts in the photos. God’s Father revealed in a magazine that human beings first lived in this physical universe 40 million billion years ago. I don’t know English well...

The plan of the present series requires each volume to be complete in about eighty small pages. But no adequate account of the achievements of astronomy can possibly be given within limits so narrow, for so small a space would not suffice for a mere catalogue of the results which have been obtained;...

One might think that a book titled Invasion would be a story of hundreds of war ships invading a Planet. In part this is true, there is a massive deployment of war ships on all the boarders of their Galaxy staging the largest invasion known. But this is only a small part of this story. The boys do...

Fantascienza - romanzo (201 pagine) - Un appassionante romanzo al di là del tempo che celebra l’amore per l’astronautica e gli eroi dell’esplorazione spaziale. Nel 2084 la storia dell'astronautica ha fatto enormi passi avanti. È passato oltre un secolo da quando gli eroi della corsa...

Fantascienza - romanzo (253 pagine) - Per un'umanità ormai senza ambiziosi e senza speranze l'unica possibilità di riscatto è una sfida che viene dal passato: la conquista del pianeta Marte Alla fine del secondo Millennio c'era un sogno che sembrava a portata di mano, ma che venne cancellato...

Small telescopes, whether simple beginners' telescopes or refined computer-controlled instruments, are gaining popularity fast as technology improves and public interest increases. In this book the author has brought together the experience of small telescope users to provide an insightful look into...

The Great Silence explores the multifaceted problem named after the great Italian physicist Enrico Fermi and his legendary 1950 lunchtime question "Where is everybody?" In many respects, Fermi's paradox is the richest and the most challenging problem for the entire field of astrobiology and the Search...

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...

Join the crew of space shuttle Enterprise as they prepare to take the first step into the twenty-first century. Step aboard the world’s first reusable space vehicle with science writer Robert M. Powers for a cockpit view of a launch, orbit, re-entry, and return to earth. Preview the scheduled NASA...

The exploration of the subnuclear world is done through increasingly complex experiments covering a wide range of energy and performed in a large variety of environments ranging from particle accelerators, underground detectors to satellites and the space laboratory. Among recent advances one has...

Essential Relativistic Celestial Mechanics presents a systematic exposition of the essential questions of relativistic celestial mechanics and their relation to relativistic astrometry. The book focuses on the comparison of calculated and measurable quantities that is of paramount importance in using...

One of the great paradoxes of modern times is that the more scientists understand the natural world, the more we discover that our everyday beliefs about it are wrong. Astronomy, in particular, is one of the most misunderstood scientific disciplines. With the participation of thousands of undergraduate...

This unique Saturn IB Flight Manual, written for the astronauts flying the Skylab missions to the station in the Apollo Command Service Module, has fascinating information about flight systems, events, and crew interactions. This document, produced in late 1972, has a special level of extraordinary...

This book is based on a set of 18 class-tested lectures delivered to fourth-year physics undergraduates at Griffith University in Brisbane, and the book presents new discoveries by the Nobel-prize winning LIGO collaboration. The author begins with a review of special relativity and tensors and...