Télécharger le livre :  The Wondrous Universe
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The world as it is viewed from modern physics and cosmology has many strange and unexpected features. Often these are in stark contrast with our everyday experience or our preconceptions, such as the concept of space and time as finite and changeable. Nevertheless it is...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2011-10-28
Collection : Astronomers' Universe
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Télécharger le livre :  The Chemical Cosmos
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If you have ever wondered how we get from the awesome impersonality of the Big Bang universe to the point where living creatures can start to form, and evolve into beings like you, your friends and your family, wonder no more. Steve Miller provides us with a tour...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2011-10-26
Collection : Astronomers' Universe
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Télécharger le livre :  Grappling with Gravity
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Grappling with Gravity explores the physiological changes that will occur in humans and the plants and animals that accompany humans as we move to new worlds, be it to colony in the emptiness of space or settlements on the Moon, Mars, or other moons or planets. This...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2011-10-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Weird Astronomy
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Weird Astronomy appeals to all who are interested in unusual celestial phenomena, whether they be amateur or professional astronomers or science buffs who just enjoy reading of odd coincidences, unexplained observations, and reports from space probes that "don’t quite...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2010-09-24
Collection : Astronomers' Universe
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Télécharger le livre :  Galileo and 400 Years of Telescopic Astronomy
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In 1609 Galileo first used his telescope to kick start the science of observational astronomy - an event that proved to be of enormous historic, scientific, and cultural importance. Galileo and 400 Years of Telescopic Astronomy will feature the life and achievements of...

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Parution : 2010-09-09
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Télécharger le livre :  E.T. Talk
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For a long time I have been giving scientific lectures in different countries and on diverse topics, generally related to astronomy and to my work at the Arecibo Observatory. No matter which parti- lar topic I am talking about, the same question always comes up: Have we...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2010-08-12
Collection : Astronomers' Universe
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Télécharger le livre :  The Cosmic Keyhole
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In the last thirty years humans have probed the Universe, explored the Solar System and visited with spacecraft some of the most incredible places humans have ever laid eyes upon. We have expanded our knowledge slowly and surely, but still now only see a glimpse of the...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2009-09-18
Collection : Astronomers' Universe
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Télécharger le livre :  Terraforming: The Creating of Habitable Worlds
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The word ‘‘terraforming’’ conjures up many exotic images and p- hapsevenwildemotions,butatitscoreitencapsulatestheideathat worldscanbechangedbydirecthumanaction.Theultimateaimof terraforming is to alter a hostile planetary environment into one that is Earth-like, and...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2009-04-21
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Télécharger le livre :  The Greatest Comets in History
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Naked-eye comets are far from uncommon. As a rough average, one appears every 18 months or thereabouts, and it is not very unusual to see more than two in a single year. The record so far seems to have been 2004, with a total of five comets visible without optical aid....

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2008-12-16
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Télécharger le livre :  The Future of the Universe
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Many excellent books have been written about the past history of the universe and of the various objects—galaxies, stars, planets— to be found in it. All the exciting events from the original Big Bang to the appearance of human beings have been carefully recorded. Much...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2007-05-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Calibrating the Cosmos
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Calibrating the Cosmos describes hard science, but is gently written. It explains in clear, non-mathematical language the measurements and the interpretation of the resulting data that have led to the current understanding of the origin, evolution and properties of our...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2007-04-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Origins
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In the last decade, there has been a revolution in observational astronomy, which has meant that we are very close to answering three of the four big ‘origin questions’, of how the planets, stars, galaxies, and the universe itself were formed.  As recently as 1995...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2007-03-12
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