Astrophysics category: 1588 books
Calculating the Cosmos
How Mathematics Unveils the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
A prize-winning popular science writer uses mathematical modeling to explain the cosmos.
In Calculating the Cosmos, Ian Stewart presents an exhilarating guide to the cosmos, from our solar system to the entire universe. He describes the architecture of space and time, dark matter and dark energy,...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2012
This official NASA technical report - converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction - provides an analysis of the famous 1969 triggered lightning strike on the Apollo 12 rocket during its launch.
The summary states:
The Apollo 12 space vehicle was launched on November...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2012
This ebook provides comprehensive coverage of the history and accomplishments of wind tunnels, featuring a reproduction of the NASA history document, Wind Tunnels of NASA, along with a special section outlining some current NASA wind tunnel capabilities. The foreword of this important volume states:
Although...
The Quirks & Quarks Guide to Space
"42 Questions (and Answers) About Life, the Universe, and Everything"
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
For everyone who’s curious about what’s new under (and over and around) the stars.
Douglas Adams famously pronounced in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy that the answer to life, the universe, and everything was 42. Quirks & Quarks, whose approach to science owes almost as much...
Titan Unveiled
Saturn's Mysterious Moon Explored
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
For twenty-five years following the Voyager mission, scientists speculated about Saturn's largest moon, a mysterious orb clouded in orange haze. Finally, in 2005, the Cassini-Huygens probe successfully parachuted down through Titan's atmosphere, all the while transmitting images and data. In the early...
Faint Echoes, Distant Stars
The Science and Politics of Finding Life Beyond Earth
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Our neighboring planets may have the answer to this question. Scientists have already identified ice caps on Mars and what appear to be enormous oceans underneath the ice of Jupiter's moons. The atmosphere on Venus appeared harsh and insupportable of life, composed of a toxic atmosphere and oceans...
Your Ticket to the Universe
A Guide to Exploring the Cosmos
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
An entertaining and accessible trip to the most interesting stops in the cosmos. Accompanied by dramatic visuals, Your Ticket to the Universe is a hybrid coffee-table book and field guide.
Beginning with our home planet, Your Ticket to the Universe embarks on an entertaining and accessible...
Exoplanets
Diamond Worlds, Super Earths, Pulsar Planets, and the New Search for Life beyond Our Solar System
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
The past few years have seen an incredible explosion in our knowledge of the universe. Since its 2009 launch, the Kepler satellite has discovered more than two thousand exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system. More exoplanets are being discovered all the time, and even more remarkable than...
Religions and Extraterrestrial Life
How Will We Deal With It?
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
In the twenty-first century, the debate about life on other worlds is quickly changing from the realm of speculation to the domain of hard science. Within a few years, as a consequence of the rapid discovery by astronomers of planets around other stars, astronomers very likely will have discovered...
by William Haloupek
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Trying to get a sense of scale in the Solar System can be difficult, because the distances involved are outside the realm of ordinary experience. Planets and other bodies also move at much greater speeds than ordinary household objects. For example, 1 km/sec is pretty fast for a bullet, but slow compared...
Mars One
Humanity's Next Great Adventure: Inside the First Human Settlement on Mars
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Will we one day walk on Mars? A book that “will feed the imagination of anyone with an interest in space or the future of humanity on other worlds” (Foreword Reviews).
In 2011, Mars One announced its intentions to establish a permanent human settlement on Mars beginning as early as 2024....
Making Space Happen
Private Space Ventures and the Visionaries Behind Them
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2002
Most people equate space exploration with NASA—its multimillion-dollar, taxpayer funded programs and its small, elite corps of astronauts—but the public is largely unaware of the many privately funded efforts to develop space for human tourism and settlement. Making Space Happen takes readers...
Becoming Spacefarers
Rescuing America's Space Program
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
What is a spacefaring society, and how do we get there from here? In addressing these questions, this book examines how partisanship and parochialism have hindered American space dreams in recent years, and demonstrates that the lessons we should have learned from U.S. history can put us on a more...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
This official NASA history document - converted for accurate flowing-text ebook format reproduction - contains thirty-three essays by noted experts on the societal impact of spaceflight.
Contents: Chapter 1 - Has Spaceflight Had an Impact on Society? An Interpretative Framework * Chapter 2...