Astrophysics Space Science category: 1588 books
After the Beginning
A Cosmic Journey through Space and Time
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2004
In a brilliant flash about fourteen billion years ago, time and matter were born in a single instant of creation. An immensely hot and dense universe began its rapid expansion everywhere, creating space where there was no space and time where there was no time. In the intense fire just after the beginning,...
by Zane Ghali
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
"The Simpleton's Guide to Astrophysics" is a congregation of simply explained astrophysics theories. Usually, these theories are incredibly complex, and require years of study to understand the mathematics behind them, but this book puts them into a much simpler light, allowing the average...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
It has been more than fifty years since the first significant paper on accretion flows was written. In recent years, X-ray satellites capable of identifying accretion disks and radiation jets - indications that accretion has taken place - have significantly advanced our understanding of these phenomena....
The Cosmic Century
A History of Astrophysics and Cosmology
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2006
The twentieth century witnessed the development of astrophysics and cosmology from subjects which scarcely existed to two of the most exciting and demanding areas of contemporary scientific inquiry. In this book Malcolm Longair reviews the historical development of the key areas of modern astrophysics,...
by K. D. Abhyankar
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
This book attempts to broadly deal with the mechanics and dynamics of the Solar System with additional emphasis on celestial mechanics. Important planetary laws and theories like the Geocentric Theory, Kepler’s Laws, Newton’s law of gravitation, the catastrophic theories of Moulten, Russel and Schmidt,...
by Gabriele Ghisellini
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
This book grew out of the author’s notes from his course on Radiative Processes in High Energy Astrophysics. The course provides fundamental definitions of radiative processes and serves as a brief introduction to Bremsstrahlung and black body emission, relativistic beaming, synchrotron emission...
The Origin of the Galaxy and Local Group
Saas-Fee Advanced Course 37 Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
This volume contains the updated and expanded lecture notes of the 37th Saas-Fee Advanced Course organised by the Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy. It offers the most comprehensive and up to date review of one of the hottest research topics in astrophysics - how our Milky Way galaxy formed....
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
This book introduces the reader to the field of nuclear astrophysics, i.e. the acquisition and reading of measurements on unstable isotopes in different parts of the universe. The authors explain the role of radioactivities in astrophysics, discuss specific sources of cosmic isotopes and in which...
by Philipp P. Kronberg
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
Magnetic fields are important in the Universe and their effects contain the key to many astrophysical phenomena that are otherwise impossible to understand. This book presents an up-to-date overview of this fast-growing topic and its interconnections to plasma processes, astroparticle physics, high...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
High time-resolution astrophysics (HTRA) involves measuring and studying astronomical phenomena on timescales of seconds to milliseconds. Although many areas of astronomy, such as X-ray astronomy and pulsar observations, have traditionally required high time-resolution studies, HTRA techniques are...
Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky
The Pioneering Rocket Scientist and His Cosmic Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
How did such an intellectual giant spring up out of nowhere? Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky was the founder of Russian astrophysics and cosmonautics. He was a self-taught scientist, inventor, philosopher and science fiction writer. He lost his hearing at age 10; he struggled in obscurity, earning...
Collisionless Shocks in Space Plasmas
Structure and Accelerated Particles
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Shock waves are an important feature of solar system plasmas, from the solar corona out to the edge of the heliosphere. This engaging introduction to collisionless shocks in space plasmas presents a comprehensive review of the physics governing different types of shocks and processes of particle acceleration,...
Cosmogenic Radionuclides
Theory and Applications in the Terrestrial and Space Environments
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2012
Cosmogenic radionuclides are radioactive isotopes which are produced by natural processes and distributed within the Earth system. With a holistic view of the environment the authors show in this book how cosmogenic radionuclides can be used to trace and to reconstruct the history of a large variety...
Beating the Odds
The Life and Times of E A Milne
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
E A Milne was one of the giants of 20th century astrophysics and cosmology. His bold ideas, underpinned by his Christianity, sparked controversy — he believed two time scales operate in the universe.
Struggling against poverty, Milne won five scholarships to Cambridge, but he never finished...