Astrophysics Space Science category: 1588 books
Our Explosive Sun
A Visual Feast of Our Source of Light and Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2011
The Sun, which is our own star at the center of the Solar System, gives rise to all life on Earth and is the driver of photosynthesis in plants and the source of all food and energy for living things. As seen with the naked eye, the Sun appears as a static and quiet yellow disk in the sky. However,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
A trio of editors [Professors from Austria, Germany and Israel] present Life on Earth and other Planetary Bodies. The contributors are from twenty various countries and present their research on life here as well as the possibility for extraterrestrial life. This volume covers concepts such as life’s...
by Martin Griffiths
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018
This book contains everything you need to know about variable stars -- stars whose brightness varies noticeably over time. The study of variable stars has been a particularly popular area of research for amateurs for many years; the material contained herein serves as both an introduction to amateur...
by Chris Impey
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 2, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 2, 2016
La storia dell’uomo potrebbe essere letta come un continuo “andar via di casa”: dai primi Homo sapiens che lasciarono l’Africa 200.000 anni fa alle frontiere più avanzate della ricerca spaziale, che Chris Impey ci racconta in questo libro. Oggi l’istinto irrinunciabile della scoperta si...
by Luca Montemagno
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 3, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 3, 2015
Un viaggio semiserio, ma profondo, alla scoperta dei concetti fondamentali e dei misteri insiti nella fisica quantistica.
Una incursione nei meandri dei paradossi e dei fenomeni più anomali della fisica moderna, verso una nuova visione dell'universo e delle cose.
Lo spaziotempo, la...
by Luca Montemagno
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 22, 2017
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 22, 2017
Lasciatevi guidare lungo un percorso curioso e sorprendente, alla scoperta di qualcosa di veramente paradossale e coinvolgente.
Il tragitto sarà ricco di interessanti scoperte e vi aiuterà a comprendere molti dei principali fenomeni quantistici, e dei relativi paradossi, che tuttora contribuiscono...
by Marcello Taccucci
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 9, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 9, 2015
Siamo a metà del XXI sec. Due anziani coniugi, emigranti italiani stanziatisi a Los Angeles già da mezzo secolo, vivono serenamente la loro vecchiaia in una casetta di periferia. Lui è uno scienziato a riposo. Il figlio Pegaso, anch’egli scienziato, ha preso il suo posto nel laboratorio di ricerche...
Emission of Radio Waves in Particle Showers
Validation of Microscopic Simulations with the SLAC T-510 Experiment and their Potential in the Future Square Kilometre Array
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
This thesis offers the first laboratory validation of microscopic simulations of radio emission from particle showers, including a detailed description of the simulation study. It presents a potential future avenue for resolving the mass composition of cosmic rays via radio detection of air showers.
Particle...
Loop Quantum Gravity
The First 30 Years
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
This volume presents a snapshot of the state-of-the-art in loop quantum gravity from the perspective of younger leading researchers. It takes the reader from the basics to recent advances, thereby bridging an important gap.
The aim is two-fold — to provide a contemporary introduction to the...
by Santiago Erroz-Ferrer
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2015
This thesis discusses the evolution of galaxies through the study of the morphology, kinematics, and star formation properties of a sample of nearby galaxies. The main body of the thesis describes the kinematic observations with the GHaFAS Fabry-Perot instrument on the William Herschel Telescope of...
Cosmic Electrodynamics
Electrodynamics and Magnetic Hydrodynamics of Cosmic Plasmas
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
This book presents the fundamental concepts of the theory, illustrated by numerous examples of astrophysical applications. Classical concepts are combined with new developments and the authors demarcate what is well established and what is still under debate. To book illustrates how apparently complicated...
Stellar Physics
2: Stellar Evolution and Stability
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
"Stellar Physics" is a an outstanding book in the growing body of literature on star formation and evolution. Not only does the author, a leading expert in the field, very thoroughly present the current state of knowledge on stellar physics, but he handles with equal care the many problems...
From Ultra Rays to Astroparticles
A Historical Introduction to Astroparticle Physics
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2012
The scope of the book is to give an overview of the history of astroparticle physics, starting with the discovery of cosmic rays (Victor Hess, 1912) and its background (X-ray, radioactivity).
The book focusses on the ways in which physics changes in the course of this history. The following changes...
by Yi Wang
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
This thesis focuses on magnetic reconnection processes in the boundary layer of the interplanetary magnetic cloud. Magnetic reconnection is an important and frontier topic in the realm of physics. Various physical phenomena can be observed during the reconnection process but lots of them are not fully...