Author: Chapman, Samuel L. Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In The Countless Trillions of Universes within Universes, author Samuel Chapman utilizes his experience with teaching as he embraces the enormities of life that make up our universe. The story begins...
Description: Are we alone in the Universe? Was there anything before the Big Bang? Are there other universes? What are sunspots? What is a shooting star? Was there ever life on Mars? This book answers the fascinat...
Author: Kanipe, Jeff Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Have you ever wondered what that bright point of light twinkling near the horizon is, or just when you can expect to see the best shooting stars of the year? A Skywatcher's Year has answers to these a...
Author: Heifetz,Milton / Tirion,Wil Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: What star is that? Where is the Southern Cross? Who was Orion? This book answers these questions and many more. Its unique simplified maps make it easy to find the constellations in the southern hemis...
Author: Williams, Thomas R. / Saladyga, Michael Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Founded in 1911, the AAVSO boasts over 1200 members and observers and is the world's largest non-profit organization dedicated to variable star observation. This timely book marks the AAVSO's centenni...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: During the past decade, convincing evidence has been accumulated concerning the effect of active galactic nuclei (AGN) activity on the internal and external environment of their host galaxies. Featuri...
Author: Labeyrie, A. / Lipson, S. G. / Nisenson, P. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: During the last two decades, optical stellar interferometry has become an important tool in astronomical investigations requiring spatial resolution well beyond that of traditional telescopes. This is...
Author: Peraiah, Annamaneni Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Astrophysicists have developed several very different methodologies for solving the radiative transfer equation. An Introduction to Radiative Transfer presents these techniques as applied to stellar a...
Author: LeBlanc, Francis Publisher: Wiley Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: An Introduction to Stellar Astrophysics aspires to provide the reader with an intermediate knowledge on stars whilst focusing mostly on the explanation of the functioning of stars by using basic physi...
Author: LeBlanc, Francis Publisher: Wiley Format: Adobe PDF
Description: An Introduction to Stellar Astrophysics aspires to provide the reader with an intermediate knowledge on stars whilst focusing mostly on the explanation of the functioning of stars by using basic physi...
Author: Britannica Educational Publishing, Publisher: Britannica Educational Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Our Search for knowledge about the universe has been remarkable, heartbreaking, fantastical, and inspiring, and this search is just beginning. Astronomical Observations is part of a 7 book series tha...
Author: Hearnshaw, John Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Astronomical spectrographs analyze light emitted by the Sun, stars, galaxies and other objects in the Universe, and have been used in astronomy since the early nineteenth century. This book provides a...
Author: Kutner, Marc Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This fully revised and updated text is a comprehensive introduction to astronomical objects and phenomena. By applying some basic physical principles to a variety of situations, students will learn ho...
Author: Irwin, Judith Ann Publisher: Wiley Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Astrophysics: Decoding the Cosmos is an accessible introduction to the key principles and theories underlying astrophysics.This text takes a close look at the radiation and particles that we receive f...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Astrobiology is one of the hottest areas of current research, reflecting not only impressive advances in the understanding of the origin of life but also the discovery of over 100 extrasolar planets i...
Author: Armitage, Philip J. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The study of planet formation has been revolutionized by recent observational breakthroughs, which have allowed the detection and characterization of extrasolar planets, the imaging of protoplanetary ...
Author: Stoyan,Ronald / Binnewies,Stefan / Friedrich,Susanne Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The 110 star clusters, nebulae and galaxies of Messier's catalog are among the most popular of all the deep sky objects and are beautiful targets for amateur observers of all abilities. This stunning ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In recent years cosmologists have advanced from largely qualitative models of the Universe to precision modelling using Bayesian methods, in order to determine the properties of the Universe to high a...
Author: Davies, John Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In the last ten years, the solar system has more than doubled in size. For the first time in almost two centuries an entirely new population of planetary objects has been found. This 'Kuiper Belt' of ...
Author: Bennett, Jeffrey Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The quest for extraterrestrial life doesn't happen only in science fiction. This book describes the startling discoveries being made in the very real science of astrobiology, an intriguing new field t...
Author: Mitton, Jacqueline Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This lavishly illustrated new dictionary written by an experienced writer and consultant on astronomy provides an essential guide to the universe for amateur astronomers of all ages. Around 1300 caref...
Author: Kronk,Gary W. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Cometography is a multi-volume catalog of every comet observed throughout history. It uses the most reliable orbits known to determine the distances from the Earth and Sun at the time a comet was disc...
Author: Wheeler,J. Craig Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: From supernovae and gamma-ray bursts to the accelerating Universe, this is an exploration of the intellectual threads that lead to some of the most exciting ideas in modern astrophysics and cosmology....
Author: Harrington, Philip S. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Listing more than 500 sky targets, both near and far, in 187 challenges, this observing guide will test novice astronomers and advanced veterans alike. Its unique mix of Solar System and deep-sky targ...
Author: Crawford, David F. Publisher: Brown Walker Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Curvature Cosmology proposes a new cosmological model very different from, and more elegant than, the Big-Bang Theory. Curvature Cosmology is based on two major hypotheses that Hubble redshift is due ...
Author: Levy, David H. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this simple guide, David Levy inspires readers to experience the wonder of eclipses and other transient astronomical events for themselves. Covering both solar and lunar eclipses, he gives step-by-...
Author: O'Meara, Stephen James Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this fresh list, Stephen James O'Meara presents 109 new objects for stargazers to observe. The Secret Deep list contains many exceptional objects, including a planetary nebula whose last thermal pu...
Author: Rieke, George Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Detection of Light provides a comprehensive overview of the important approaches to photon detection from the ultraviolet to the submillimeter spectral regions. This expanded and fully updated second ...
Author: Covington,Michael A. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In the last few years, digital SLR cameras have taken the astrophotography world by storm. It is now easier to photograph the stars than ever before! They are compact and portable, flexible to adapt w...
Author: McFadden, Lucy-Ann Publisher: Elsevier S&T Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Long before Galileo published his discoveries about Jupiter, lunar craters, and the Milky Way in the Starry Messenger in 1610, people were fascinated with the planets and stars around them. That inte...
Description: Evolution of Stars and Stellar Populations is a comprehensive presentation of the theory of stellar evolution and its application to the study of stellar populations in galaxies. Taking a unique appro...
Author: Seager, Sara Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Over the past twenty years, astronomers have identified hundreds of extrasolar planets--planets orbiting stars other than the sun. Recent research in this burgeoning field has made it possible to obse...
Author: Hanel, R. A. / Conrath, B. J. / Jennings, D. E. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book describes all aspects of the theory, instrumental techniques and observational results of the remote sensing of objects in our Solar System through studies of infrared radiation. Fully revis...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Where did we come from? Are we alone? Where are we going? These are the questions that define the field of astrobiology. New discoveries about life on Earth, the increasing numbers of extrasolar plane...
Author: Seward, Frederick D. / Charles, Philip A. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Capturing the excitement and accomplishments of X-ray astronomy, this second edition now includes a broader range of astronomical phenomena and dramatic new results from the most powerful X-ray telesc...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This volume presents the lectures from the sixteenth Winter School of the Instituto de Astrof sica de Canarias, which was dedicated to extrasolar planets. Research into extrasolar planets is one of t...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This highly interdisciplinary book highlights many of the ways in which chemistry plays a crucial role in making life an evolutionary possibility in the universe. Cosmologists and particle physicists ...
Author: Kovalevsky, Jean / Seidelmann, P. Kenneth Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Astrometry encompasses all that is necessary to provide the positions and motions of celestial bodies. This includes observational techniques, instrumentation, processing and analysis of observational...
Author: Mo, Houjun / van den Bosch, Frank / White, Simon Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The rapidly expanding field of galaxy formation lies at the interface between astronomy, particle physics, and cosmology. Covering diverse topics from these disciplines, all of which are needed to und...
Author: Howell, Steve B. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Charge-Coupled Devices (CCDs) are the state-of-the-art detector in many fields of observational science. Updated to include all of the latest developments in CCDs, this second edition of the Handbook ...
Author: Clayton, Donald Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Each naturally occurring isotope has a tale to tell about the history of matter, and each has its own special place in cosmic evolution. This volume aims to grasp the origins of our material world by ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Heliophysics is a fast-developing scientific discipline that integrates studies of the Sun's variability, the surrounding heliosphere, and the environment and climate of planets. Over the past few cen...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Heliophysics is a fast-developing scientific discipline that integrates studies of the Sun's variability, the surrounding heliosphere, and the environment and climate of planets. The Sun is a magnetic...
Author: Weintraub, David A. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Astronomers have determined that our universe is 13.7 billion years old. How exactly did they come to this precise conclusion? How Old Is the Universe? tells the incredible story of how astronomers so...
Author: Covington,Michael A. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: How to Use a Computerized Telescope is the first handbook that describes how to get your computerized telescope up and running, and how to embark on a program of observation. It explains in detail how...
Author: Morison, Ian Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Introduction to Astronomy & Cosmology is a modern undergraduate textbook, combining both the theory behind astronomy with the very latest developments. Written for science students, this book takes a ...
Author: Morison, Ian Publisher: Wiley Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Introduction to Astronomy & Cosmology is a modern undergraduate textbook, combining both the theory behind astronomy with the very latest developments. Written for science students, this book take...
