Astrophysics Space Science category: 1588 books
Supermassive Black Hole At The Center Of Cosmology
The Black Hole Myth
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
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by Giuseppe Bertin
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Our understanding of galaxies, the building blocks of the Universe has advanced significantly in recent years. New observations from ground- and space-based telescopes, the discovery of dark matter, and new insights into its distribution have been instrumental in this. This textbook provides graduate...
Dwarf Galaxies: Keys to Galaxy Formation and Evolution
Proceedings of Symposium 3 of JENAM 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Dwarf galaxy research constitutes an extremely vibrant field of astrophysical research, with many long-standing questions still unsettled and new ones constantly arising. The intriguing diversity of the dwarf galaxy population, observed with advanced ground-based and space-borne observatories over...
NASA Systems Engineering Handbook
NASA/SP-2016-6105 Rev2 - Full Color Version
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Notice: Be sure the version you are buying has the words "Full Color Version" in the title. Other versions are in grayscale.Hardcover in full-color - ISBN 9781680920895 Paperback in full-color - ISBN 9781680920901In 1995, the NASA Systems Engineering Handbook (NASA/SP-6105) was initially...
You Are Here
Around the World in 92 Minutes: Photographs from the International Space Station
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Divided by continent, YOU ARE HERE represents one (idealized) orbit of the ISS. This planetary photo tour -- surprising, playful, thought-provoking, and visually delightful -- is also punctuated with fun, fascinating commentary on life in zero gravity. In the spirit of his bestselling An Astronaut's...
Alien Artifacts Vol-2
Moon Mars Monuments Madness
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
The Search for Alien Artifacts brings you Volume 2 - "Moon Mars Monuments Madness." A Lunar and Martian analyses of odd and offbeat surface features believed to be of Extraterrestrial origin by alien artifact hunters. Get this volume if you want to really know the truth. It is exciting and...
Our Cosmic Habitat
New Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Our universe seems strangely ''biophilic,'' or hospitable to life. Is this happenstance, providence, or coincidence? According to cosmologist Martin Rees, the answer depends on the answer to another question, the one posed by Einstein's famous remark: ''What interests me most is whether God could...
by Heinrich Päs
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Almost weightless and able to pass through the densest materials with ease, neutrinos may offer answers to questions ranging from relativity and quantum mechanics to more radical theories about dark energy and supersymmetry. Heinrich Päs serves as our fluent guide to a particle world that tests the boundaries of space, time, and human knowledge.
Solar Energetic Particles
A Modern Primer on Understanding Sources, Acceleration and Propagation
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2017
This concise primer introduces the non-specialist reader to the physics of solar energetic particles (SEP) and systematically reviews the evidence for the two main mechanisms which lead to the so-called impulsive and gradual SEP events.
More specifically, the timing of the onsets, the longitude...
Climate and Weather of the Sun-Earth System (CAWSES)
Highlights from a Priority Program
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
CAWSES (Climate and Weather of the Sun-Earth System) is the most important scientific program of SCOSTEP (Scientific Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Physics). CAWSES has triggered a scientific priority program within the German Research Foundation for a period of 6 years. Approximately 30 scientific...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
This book is the result of a working group sponsored by ISSI in Bern, which was initially created to study possible ways to calibrate a Far Ultraviolet (FUV) instrument after launch. In most cases, ultraviolet instruments are well calibrated on the ground, but unfortunately, optics and detectors in...
Tachyon Drive
The Physics of Faster Than Light Travel
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2018
Tachyon Drive is a collection of theoretical ideas that explores the possibility of traveling at faster than light speeds (FTL). The theory extends ideas of Albert Einstein’s to include FTL travel with in special, and general relativity. By properly manipulating the fabric of spacetime, solutions...
The Cluster Active Archive
Studying the Earth's Space Plasma Environment
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Since the year 2000 the ESA Cluster mission has been investigating the small-scale structures and processes of the Earth's plasma environment, such as those involved in the interaction between the solar wind and the magnetospheric plasma, in global magnetotail dynamics, in cross-tail currents, and...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
This official NASA history document - converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction - provides a fascinating history of NASA's nuclear research on propulsion at the Plum Brook reactor facility in Sandusky, Ohio. This book is a visual history of the Plum Brook reactor, including numerous...