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About five billion years ago the solar system was born and then the star we call the Sun The Sun, with all the bodies that revolve around it, is a system of which only a few years know other examples, but none of these is within the reach of our direct observation. For this reason, the problem of its origin, the evolution and prediction of its future is far more complex and difficult.

Stargazing Throughout the Seasons in the Southern Hemisphere is an excerpt from The Star Book that guides you through the night skies in the Southern Hemisphere, through wide-angle star charts. Looking at the main constellations, stars and celestial showpieces of the southern celestial sphere, beginning...

This book covers several topics including: 1.Why Study Light?    2.Introduction To Light 3.Introduction To Color 4.Astronomical Instruments 5.Our Solar System               6.The Sun                              ...

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 targets will have observers hunting for the Apollo lunar landing sites, searching for satellites orbiting...

In the words of those who trod the void and those at mission control, here are over 50 of the greatest true stories of suborbital, orbital and deep-space exploration. From Apollo 8's first view of a fractured, tortured landscape of craters on the 'dark side' of the Moon...

The Astronomer Series: Astronomers of our History Having trouble on Physics? Want to learn about the astronomers of our history and how their views, observations, and discoveries affected our perceptions of our planet and Solar System? This eBook goes into the personal life, discoveries, and achievements...

(science article) As you get to know your stellar neighborhood, you will find some bizarre and fascinating stars, planets and other strange things. Each one has its own personality, and we are starting to learn more about them, individually. One of the first things you will notice is that more...

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 pulse produced a circumstellar shell similar to the one expected in the final days of our Sun's life;...

There are currently thousands of amateur astronomers around the world engaged in astrophotography at a sophisticated level. Their ranks far outnumber professional astronomers doing the same and their contributions both technically and artistically are the dominant drivers of progress in the field...

In July 1947, something crashed in the desert near Roswell, New Mexico. What that object was, as well as what happened in the days following the crash, has been hotly disputed ever since. Did the United States government cover up the existence of an extraterrestrial UFO? Were alien bodies recovered...

Microwave Cooking Times is the book that will rescue everyone who fears cooking anything more ambitious than frozen peas in the microwave. All it takes to make the most of one of the greatest assets in the kitchen is a little know-how. Carolyn Humphries and Jan Orchard leave no questions unanswered....

Why Earth’s life-friendly climate makes it exceptional-and what that means for the likelihood of finding intelligent extraterrestrial life We have long fantasized about finding life on planets other than our own. Yet even as we become aware of the vast expanses beyond our solar system, it...

Covering 13.8 billion years in some 100 pages, a calculatedly concise, wryly intelligent history of everything, from the Big Bang to the advent of human civilization With wonder, wit, and flair—and in record time and space—geophysicist David Bercovici explains how everything came to be everywhere,...

This official NASA document - converted for accurate flowing-text ebook format reproduction - provides the complete transcription of the Apollo 13 post-flight debriefing given by astronauts Lovell, Haise, and Swigert, with their first-hand description of the harrowing flight. This ebook is an invaluable...