Tous les ebooks de la collection "Astronomers' Universe" - Springer

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Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Visible and Invisible Olmes Bisi Light phenomena have intrigued humankind since prehistory. Think of the rainbow, a sunset on the sea, a game of shadows. Humans have always used light for their own needs, from cooking food to illuminating a room. However, light is not only limited to what we can see... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2014-10-20 Collection : Astronomers' Universe ePub 36,91 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Alpha Centauri Martin Beech As our closest stellar companion and composed of two Sun-like stars and a third small dwarf star, Alpha Centauri is an ideal testing ground of astrophysical models and has played a central role in the history and development of modern astronomy—from the first guesses at... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2014-10-15 Collection : Astronomers' Universe ePub 40,08 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Weird Universe David A. J. Seargent As new discoveries complicate the scientific picture of the universe, the evolving theories about the nature of space and time and the origins and fate of the universe threaten to become overwhelming. Enter David Seargent. Continuing the author's series of books... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2014-10-10 Collection : Astronomers' Universe ePub 31,64 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Astrobiological Neurosystems Jerry L. Cranford This book explains why scientists believe that life may be more common in the Universe than previously considered possible. It presents the tools and strategies astronomers and astrobiologists are using in their formal search for habitable exoplanets as well as more... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2014-09-27 Collection : Astronomers' Universe ePub 34,80 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Elephants in Space Ben Moore This book is about the history and future of life and the universe, written at a level that any educated lay-person can understand and enjoy. It describes our place in time and space, how we got here and where we are going. It will take you on a journey from the... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2014-05-30 Collection : Astronomers' Universe ePub 52,74 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Incoming Asteroid! Duncan Lunan ‘Incoming Asteroid!’ is based on a project within ASTRA (the Association in Scotland to Research into Astronautics) to provide scientific answers to the question – what would we do if we knew there was going to be an asteroid impact in ten years’ time or less? Clearly... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2013-10-17 Collection : Astronomers' Universe ePub 39,02 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Extreme Explosions David S. Stevenson What happens at the end of the life of massive stars? At one time we thought all these stars followed similar evolutionary paths. However, new discoveries have shown that things are not quite that simple. This book focuses on the extreme –the most intense, brilliant and... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2013-09-05 Collection : Astronomers' Universe ePub 47,46 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Cosmic Dawn George Rhee This book takes the reader on an exploration of the structure and evolution of our universe. The basis for our knowledge is the Big Bang theory of the expanding universe.This book then tells the story of our search for the first stars and galaxies using current and... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2013-08-13 Collection : Astronomers' Universe ePub 39,02 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Under a Crimson Sun David S. Stevenson Gliese 581 is a red dwarf star some 20.3 light years from Earth. Red dwarfs are among the most numerous stars in the galaxy, and they sport diverse planetary systems. At magnitude 10,Gliese 581 is visible to amateur observers but does not stand out. So what makes this... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2013-08-13 Collection : Astronomers' Universe ePub 36,91 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Making Waves M Goss This book is an abbreviated, partly re-written version of "Under the Radar - The First Woman in Radio Astronomy: Ruby Payne-Scott." It addresses a general readership interested in historical and sociological aspects of astronomy and presents the biography of Ruby... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2013-07-10 Collection : Astronomers' Universe ePub 42,19 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Stardust Sun Kwok How did life originate on Earth? For over 50 years, scientists believed that life was the result of a chemical reaction involving simple molecules such as methane and ammonia cooking in a primordial soup. Recent space observations have revealed that old stars are... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2013-04-08 Collection : Astronomers' Universe ePub 47,46 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Stones and the Stars Duncan Lunan There are at least 48 identified prehistoric stone circles in Scotland. In truth, very little is known about the people who erected them, and ultimately about what the stone circles were for. Most stone circles are astronomically aligned, which has led to the modern... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2012-11-28 Collection : Astronomers' Universe ePub 36,91 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Story of Helium and the Birth of Astrophysics Biman B. Nath What if one of the most thrilling stories in the history of science turned out to be wrong? Can urban legends creep into the hallowed grounds of scientific history? As incredible as it may sound, the story of one of the most important elements in modern times – helium -... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2012-11-10 Collection : Astronomers' Universe ePub 36,91 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Celestial Messengers Mario Bertolotti The book describes from a historical point of view how cosmic rays were discovered.The book describes the research in cosmic rays.The main focus is on how the knowledge was gained, describing the main experiments and the conclusions drawn. Biographical sketches of main... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2012-10-13 Collection : Astronomers' Universe PDF 39,02 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Astronomy and the Climate Crisis Antony Cooke Climate change is acknowledged as being one of the most important areas of research today. Increasing global temperatures will impact all of us to a greater or lesser extent. From the point of view of research it is an enormously important and complex subject. However,... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2012-08-27 Collection : Astronomers' Universe ePub 39,02 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Andromeda Galaxy and the Rise of Modern Astronomy David Schultz The Andromeda Galaxy – Messier’s M31 – has an almost romantic appeal. It is the most distant object and the only extragalactic object that is visible to the unaided human eye. Now known to be about 2½ million light-years away, it appears in the sky to be several times... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2012-04-23 Collection : Astronomers' Universe ePub 42,19 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Weird Weather David A. J. Seargent This book is, in a sense, a sequel to David Seargent's first Springer book Weird Astronomy (2010). Whereas Weird Astronomy extended over a broad range of purely astronomical topics, the present work concentrates on phenomena closer to home; the atmospheric and "shallow... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2012-03-02 Collection : Astronomers' Universe ePub 39,02 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies New Eyes on the Sun John Wilkinson Information collected by satellites recently sent by the USA, the European Space Agency, Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Russia to monitor the Sun has changed our knowledge and understanding of the Sun, particularly its effect on Earth. This book presents these... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2012-01-05 Collection : Astronomers' Universe ePub 36,91 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Stardust, Supernovae and the Molecules of Life Richard Boyd Where were the amino acids, the molecules of life, created: perhaps in a lightning storm in the early Earth, or perhaps elsewhere in the cosmos? This book argues that at least some of them must have been produced in the cosmos, and that the fact that the Earthly amino... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2011-12-15 Collection : Astronomers' Universe PDF, ePub 34,80 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Exoplanets C. R. Kitchin Exoplanets: Finding, Exploring, and Understanding Alien Worlds probes the basis for possible answers to the fundamentals questions asked about these planets orbiting stars other than our Sun. This book examines what such planets might be like, where they are, and how we... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2011-12-02 Collection : Astronomers' Universe ePub 31,64 €
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