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Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
This book's interdisciplinary scope aims at bridging various communities: 1) cosmochemists, who study meteoritic samples from our own solar system, 2) (sub-) millimetre astronomers, who measure the distribution of dust and gas of star-forming regions and planet-forming discs, 3) disc modellers, who...
by Charles Byrne
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Since Luna and Lunar Orbiter photographed the far side of the Moon, the mysterious dichotomy between the face of the Moon as we see it from Earth and the side of the Moon that is hidden has puzzled lunar scientists. As we learned more from the Apollo sample return missions and later robotic satellites,...
All These Worlds Are Yours
The Scientific Search for Alien Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
Long before space travel was possible, the idea of life beyond Earth transfixed humans. In this fascinating book, astronomer Jon Willis explores the science of astrobiology and the possibility of locating other life in our own galaxy. Describing the most recent discoveries by space exploration missions,...
Rock Legends
The Asteroids and Their Discoverers
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
This book relates the history of asteroid discoveries and christenings, from those of the early pioneering giants of Hersehel and Piazzi to modern-day amateurs. Moving from history and anecdotal information to science, the book's structure is provided by the names of the asteroids, including one named...
Meteorites
Classification and Properties
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
My goal in writing this book was to provide an introduction to meteorite science and a handbook on meteorite classification. Insofar as I succeeded it should prove useful both to the practicing professional and to university students at the upper-division and graduate levels. I originally intended...
by Forest Ray Moulton, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2013
An Introduction to Astronomy by F.R. Moulton - The definitive text for learning about the amazing science of Astronomy.
The progress of mankind has been marked by a number of great intellectual movements. At one time the ideas of men were expanding with the knowledge which they were obtaining...
by William Cowley
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
This thesis combines a theoretical model of galaxy formation with a treatment of the radiative transfer in the titular dusty star-forming galaxies. Embedding this within the well-established ΛCDM (Lambda cold dark matter) cosmology, the author was able to simulate galaxy populations from which realistic...
El futuro de la humanidad
La terraformación de Marte, los viajes interestelares, la inmortalidad y nuestro destino más allá de la Tierra
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 22, 2018
El último libro de Michio Kaku.
Un relato sobre galaxias, tecnología y el futuro de la humanidad.
Nuestra existencia está amenazada: las glaciaciones, los impactos de asteroides, la capacidad finita de la Tierra e incluso la lejana pero inevitable muerte del Sol son riesgos de tal...
by Balungi Francis
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2018
What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? Was there a beginning of time? Could time run backwards? Is the universe infinite or does it have boundaries? There’s no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed...
Final Frontier
The Pioneering Science and Technology of Exploring the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Star Trek was right — there is only one final frontier, and that is space...
Human beings are natural explorers, and nowhere is this frontier spirit stronger than in the United States of America. It almost defines the character of the US. But the Earth is running out of frontiers fast.
In...
The Copernicus Complex
Our Cosmic Significance in a Universe of Planets and Probabilities
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Longlisted for the 2015 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
Short-listed for Physics World**'s** Book of the Year
The Sunday Times (UK) Best Science Book of 2014
A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Science Book of Fall 2014
An NBC News Top Science and Tech Book of 2014
A Politics & Prose 2014...
Goldilocks and the Water Bears
The Search for Life in the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
'Highly recommended' Financial Times
Today we know of only a single planet that hosts life: the Earth. But across a Universe of at least 100 billion possibly habitable worlds, surely our planet isn't the only one that, like the porridge Goldilocks sought, is just right for life?
Astrobiologists...
The Milky Way
An Insider's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
This book offers an intimate guide to the Milky Way, taking readers on a grand tour of our home Galaxy's structure, genesis, and evolution, based on the latest astronomical findings. In engaging language, it tells how the Milky Way congealed from blobs of gas and dark matter into a spinning starry...
We Are Not Alone
Why We Have Already Found Extraterrestrial Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
This groundbreaking book demonstrates that between the results of the 1976 Viking I lander and the latest scientific discoveries from fertile Martian soil to microbe-ridden meteorites there is a powerful case for life on the Red Planet and beyond. Exploring what forms extraterrestrial life might...