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The Sun, as our nearest star, is of enormous importance for life on Earth - providing the warm radiation and light which allowed complex life to evolve.The Sun plays a key role in influencing our climate, whilst solar storms and high-energy events can threaten our...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-04-23
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The Sun, as our nearest star, is of enormous importance for life on Earth - providing the warm radiation and light which allowed complex life to evolve.The Sun plays a key role in influencing our climate, whilst solar storms and high-energy events can threaten our...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-04-23
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A guide to understanding the formation of life in the Universe The revised and updated second edition of Astrobiology offers an introductory text that explores the structure of living things, the formation of the elements required for life in the Universe, the...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2020-04-01
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An Exciting and Authoritative Account of the Second Golden Age of Solar System Exploration Award-winning author Peter Bond provides an up-to-date, in-depth account of the sun and its family in the 2nd edition of Exploring the Solar System. This new edition brings...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2020-03-03
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A guide to the fascinating interplay between particle physics and astrophysics that highlights the discovery of neutrino oscillations Written by three international experts on the topic, Solar Neutrino Physics offers a review of the status of solar physics with its...
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Wiley-VCH
Parution :
2020-02-26
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A practical guide for engineers and students that covers a wide range of optical design and optical metrology topics Optical Engineering Science offers a comprehensive and authoritative review of the science of optical engineering. The book bridges the gap between the...
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Wiley
Parution :
2020-01-07
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"Have you ever seen a total solar eclipse?" If the question caused you to search your memory, the correct answer would have been "no." A common response is: "Yes--I saw one, it was about 90% partial eclipse where I lived." A 90% partial eclipse is indeed a remarkable...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-08-02
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This book covers the works of Bhaskara, in particular, his monumental treatise on astronomy, the Siddhantasiroma?i, his astronomical handbook, the Kara?akutuhala, and his two mathematical treatises, the Lilavati and the Bijaga?ita, on arithmetic...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-04-16
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A revised and updated edition of the successful book, now featuring the most recent discoveries, technologies, and images. Since the original edition of The Space Book was published in 2013, much has happened in the world of space exploration. This revised and...
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Union Square & Co.
Parution :
2019-02-01
Collection :
Union Square & Co. Milestones
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This book is dedicated to the application of the different theoretical models described in Volume 1 to identify the near-, mid- and far-infrared spectra of linear and nonlinear triatomic molecules in gaseous phase or subjected to environmental constraints, useful for...
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Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2019-01-03
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After decades of painstaking planning, NASA's first dedicated exoplanet detection mission, the Kepler space telescope, was launched in 2009 from Cape Canaveral. Kepler began a years-long mission of looking for Earth-like planets amongst the millions of stars in the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-12-06
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Illustrated with breathtaking images of the Solar System and of the Universe around it, this book explores how the discoveries within the Solar System and of exoplanets far beyond it come together to help us understand the habitability of Earth, and how these findings...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-06-28
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This book is an important text of the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics, probably composed in the 16th century. In the Indian astronomical tradition, the kara?a texts are essentially computational manuals, and they often display a high level of ingenuity in...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-03-14
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How does the scientific enterprise really work to illuminate the origins of life and the universe itself?
The quest to understand our universe, how it may have originated and evolved, and especially the conditions that allow it to support the existence of life forms,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-03-09
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How does the scientific enterprise really work to illuminate the origins of life and the universe itself?
The quest to understand our universe, how it may have originated and evolved, and especially the conditions that allow it to support the existence of life forms,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-03-02
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Totality: The Great American Eclipses is a complete guide to the most stunning of celestial sights, total eclipses of the Sun. It focuses on the eclipses of August 21, 2017 and April 8, 2024 that pass across the United States. The U.S. mainland has not experienced a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-04-28
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Es ist groß, dunkel und im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes maßlos: das Universum. Geht es um das Universum und seinen Ursprung, geraten Naturwissenschaften und Philosophie schnell an ihre Grenzen. Trotzdem oder vielleicht auch gerade deshalb gibt es hier viel Spannendes zu...
Editeur :
Wiley-VCH
Parution :
2017-04-26
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Für Dummies
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How did it all begin? Where is it all going?A little over a century ago, a young Albert Einstein presented his general theory of relativity to the world and utterly transformed our understanding of the universe. His theory changed the way we think about space and time,...
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John Murray One
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2017-03-09
Collection :
New Scientist Instant Expert
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On 21 August 2017, over 100 million people will gather in a narrow belt across the USA to witness the most watched total solar eclipse in history. Eclipse - Journeys to the Dark Side of the Moon, written by the widely read popular science author Frank Close, describes...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-02-23
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On 21 August 2017, over 100 million people will gather in a narrow belt across the USA to witness the most watched total solar eclipse in history. Eclipse - Journeys to the Dark Side of the Moon, written by the widely read popular science author Frank Close, describes...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-01-19
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