Astrophysics category: 1588 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
The existence of blue straggler stars, which appear younger, hotter, and more massive than their siblings, is at odds with a simple picture of stellar evolution. Such stars should have exhausted their nuclear fuel and evolved long ago to become cooling white dwarfs. They are found to exist in globular...
Where Did We Come From?
Life of an Astrobiologist
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
The life story of this book spans many stages of the life and scientific career of one of the foremost astrophysicists/astrobiologists of our times. Starting from his boyhood days, the book describes the author's scientific work over the past 50 years, the ground-breaking discoveries he had made,...
Cosmic Impact
Understanding the Threat to Earth from Asteroids and Comets
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
As end-of-the-world scenarios go, an apocalyptic collision with an asteroid or comet is the new kid on the block, gaining respectability only in the last decade of the 20th century with the realisation that the dinosaurs had been wiped out by just such an impact.
Now the science community...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
The fascinating oral histories of a fourth set of thirteen pioneers of the "golden age" of American manned spaceflight (Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and Skylab)- converted for accurate flowing-text ebook format reproduction - provide new insights into this extraordinary effort, with vital observations...
Earth and Mars
A Reflection
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Nearly five billion years ago, Earth and Mars were born together as planetary siblings orbiting a young, emerging Sun. Yet today, one planet is water rich and life bearing, while the other is seemingly cold, dry, and forbidding.
Earth and Mars is a fusion of art and science, a blend of images...
Earth and the Solar System
Discover, #1
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2017
Get the facts on the planets in our solar system.
24 pages of facts and figures.
Full Color
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Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
The Encyclopedia of the Solar System, Third Edition—winner of the 2015 PROSE Award in Cosmology & Astronomy from the Association of American Publishers—provides a framework for understanding the origin and evolution of the solar system, historical discoveries, and details about planetary bodies...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2018
The oral histories of fourteen engineers and managers for the NASA Orion crew capsule program provide fascinating insights into the highs and lows of the extraordinary program, with hundreds of anecdotes and stories. Each history provides unique information about the specialty of the individual.
James...
The Science of Star Wars
An Astrophysicist's Independent Examination of Space Travel, Aliens, Planets, and Robots as Portrayed in the Star Wars Films and Books
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Could the science fiction of Star Wars be the actual science of tomorrow?
-How close are we to creating robots that look and act like R2-D2 and C-3PO?
-Can we access a "force" with our minds to move objects and communicate telepathically with each other?
-How might spaceships like...
by Norman K Glendenning
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2007
Our Place in the Universe tells the story of our world, formation of the first galaxies and stars formed from great clouds containing the primordial elements made in the first few minutes; birth of stars, their lives and deaths in fiery supernova explosions; formation of the solar system, its planets...
by Lloyd Motz, Jefferson Hane Weaver
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
by Peet Schutte
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
A CONSPIRACY in SCIENCE in PROGRESS
You are going to read about how science applies a system of mind control and thought processing. Every conspiracy that Science ever thought up such as the Critical Density Conspiracy or the Dark Energy Conspiracy, or any conspiracy connected to science is...
Particle Physics at the Year of Centenary of Bruno Pontecorvo
Proceedings of the Sixteenth Lomonosov Conference on Elementary Particle Physics
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
These proceedings are devoted to a wide variety of items, both in theory and experiment, of particle physics such as neutrino and astroparticle physics, tests of the standard model and beyond, and hadron physics. Also covered are gravitation and cosmology, and physics from present and future accelerators.
Contents:
Neutrino...
John F. Kennedy
from Florida to the Moon
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2019
It was September 12, 1962, when Pres. John F. Kennedy delivered a speech at Rice University before nearly 50,000 people. By that time, America had launched but four men into space--the suborbital flights of Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom and the nearly identical three-orbit journeys of John Glenn and...