Astrophysics category: 1588 books
by Guichun Guo, Chuang Liu
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
This volume contains the contributed papers of invitees to SEMS 2012 who have also given talks at the conference. The invitees are experts in philosophy of science and technology from Asia (besides China), Australia, Europe, Latin America, North America, as well as from within China.
The papers...
by James Goodman
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
10 top things you cannot see with the aid of a telescope….
While the star, planets, moon and so on can be seen with the aid of our telescope. Little minds, like the mind of Amy; a four year old girl might be wondering if there are things in our world that the telescope cannot help us to see.
This...
by P V Manoranjan Rao, P Radhakrishnan
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
This book attempts to showcase Indias capabilities in rocketry developed over the past 45 years (1963-2003). Starting from scratch, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) painstakingly mastered this technology in a remarkably short time. The book explains the complex technological developments...
by Andrew Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
lanets in the Solar System. Is it just the case that all they have found are uninteresting collections of gas, rocks, ice and dust? This book will “take you on a journey” to the Moon, Mars, Saturn and the Sun, to view some of the anomalies that, it would appear, taxpayer-funded space agencies...
by Andrew Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2019
Have aliens really visited us? What do they look like? Where do they come from and why are they here? Have they given us messages in Crop Circles? What historical evidence is there that aliens have been involved in the evolution or creation of humans? Is there a UFO/Alien cover up? If so, how is it...
Hiperespaço
Uma odisseia científica através de universos paralelos, empenamentos do tempo e a décima dimensão
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: March 1, 2000
Os antigos filósofos gregos, há dois milênios, acreditavam que o universo era tridimensional, isto é, comprimento, largura e profundidade eram suficientes para descrever todos os objetos do mundo visível. Essa ideia arraigada, que persiste até nossos dias, pode estar com seus dias contados....
Mundos paralelos
Uma jornada através da criação, das dimensões superiores e do futuro do cosmo
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: February 1, 2008
Como surgiu o nosso universo? Ele morrerá algum dia? Existem outros universos? Seria possível, em um futuro distante, escapar do nosso universo e ocupar outro mais propício à vida? A simples ideia de universos paralelos já foi vista com desconfiança pelos cientistas e considerada território...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
This official NASA history document - converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction - is a dramatic account of the history of NASA's nuclear reactors at the Plum Brook Station in Sandusky, Ohio. The book details the origin of the facility and its work supporting efforts to build a...
Orbits
2nd Order Singularity-free Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
The development of the orbits theory lags behind the development of satellite technology. This book provides, for the first time in the history of human satellite development, the complete third order solution of the orbits under all possible disturbances. It describes the theory of satellite orbits,...
Optical, Infrared and Radio Astronomy
From Techniques to Observation
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
This textbook presents the established sciences of optical, infrared, and radio astronomy as distinct research areas, focusing on the science targets and the constraints that they place on instrumentation in the different domains. It aims to bridge the gap between specialized books and practical...
Studying Stellar Rotation and Convection
Theoretical Background and Seismic Diagnostics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
This volume synthesizes the results of work carried out by several international teams of the SIROCO (Seismology for
Rotation and Convection) collaboration. It provides the theoretical background required to interpret the huge quantity of high-quality observational data recently provided by space...
The Space Station
A Personal Journey
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 1987
This insider's account, a penetrating view of science policy and politics during two presidencies, captures the euphoria that characterized the space program in the late seventies and early eighties and furnishes an invaluable perspective on the Challenger tragedy and the future of the United States...
Fundamentals of Spacecraft Charging
Spacecraft Interactions with Space Plasmas
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2011
As commercial and military spacecraft become more important to the world's economy and defense, and as new scientific and exploratory missions are launched into space, the need for a single comprehensive resource on spacecraft charging becomes increasingly critical. Fundamentals of Spacecraft Charging...