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Author : Leon Golub
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 17,44 MB
Release : 2014-02-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 1107052653
An authoritative and readable introduction to the Sun, our nearest star, from two experienced astronomers, for general science readers.
Author : Catherine W. Carter
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 10,9 MB
Release : 2019-10-16
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0807172324
Larvae of the Nearest Stars offers deeply serious verse that packs profound emotional and spiritual power while encouraging readers to laugh out loud. Catherine W. Carter’s quirky, accessible poems bridge and question binaries—human and nonhuman, lyric and narrative, science and magic, river trash and galaxies. The poems’ subjects range from dowsers and liver spots to the mysteries of two-seater outhouses and encounters with sentient milk jugs and “our lady of the bagels.” The collection begins and ends by confronting the necessity—and the promise—to bear witness to the world as it is, addressing how we can manage to love the world in the face of everything that makes doing so a challenge. The poems in this engaging and meditative collection are sometimes dark, often funny, but always surprising.
Author : Franklyn M. Branley
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 31,10 MB
Release : 2002-05-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0064452026
The sun brings heat, warmth, and energy to the Earth. What is the sun made of? How big is it? How far away? Read and find out!
Author : Isaac Asimov
Publisher : Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 37,33 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Alpha Centauri
ISBN :
Discusses the constellations and stars, their distance, luminosity, and size, steller astronomy, starlight, and life on other planetary systems, with special reference to the third brightest and also the nearest star, Alpha Centauri.
Author : Martin Beech
Publisher : Springer
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 14,34 MB
Release : 2014-10-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 331909372X
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 stellar distances to understanding how our own star, the Sun, might have evolved. It is also the host of the nearest known exoplanet, an ultra-hot, Earth-like planet recently discovered. Just 4.4 light years away Alpha Centauri is also the most obvious target for humanity’s first directed interstellar space probe. Such a mission could reveal the small-scale structure of a new planetary system and also represent the first step in what must surely be humanity’s greatest future adventure—exploration of the Milky Way Galaxy itself. For all of its closeness, α Centauri continues to tantalize astronomers with many unresolved mysteries, such as how did it form, how many planets does it contain and where are they, and how might we view its extensive panorama directly? In this book we move from the study of individual stars to the study of our Solar System and our nearby galactic neighborhood. On the way we will review the rapidly developing fields of exoplanet formation and detection.
Author : Reagan Miller
Publisher : Journey Through Space
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,42 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780778753094
This exciting book teaches young readers about the sunEarths nearest star. Astounding photographs and simple text help kids understand the suns features and role in our solar system.
Author : Britannica Educational Publishing
Publisher : Britannica Educational Publishing
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 18,81 MB
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1615300538
The Sun is merely one of some 200 billion stars that make up the Milky Way--and the Milky Way is only one of a billion galaxies in the known universe. Packed with fascinating facts and stunning photography, this book examines the Galaxy humans call home and travels light years away, to the domain of phenomena such as the Oort cloud.
Author : Leon Golub
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 34,82 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Sun
ISBN : 067401006X
A collection of essays that provide an overview of solar physics, discussing how scientists study the Sun and what they have discovered about various celestial phenomena.
Author : Leon Golub
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 34,80 MB
Release : 2014-02-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 110778316X
How did the Sun evolve, and what will it become? What is the origin of its light and heat? How does solar activity affect the atmospheric conditions that make life on Earth possible? These are the questions at the heart of solar physics, and at the core of this book. The Sun is the only star near enough to study in sufficient detail to provide rigorous tests of our theories and help us understand the more distant and exotic objects throughout the cosmos. Having observed the Sun using both ground-based and spaceborne instruments, the authors bring their extensive personal experience to this story revealing what we have discovered about phenomena from eclipses to neutrinos, space weather, and global warming. This second edition is updated throughout, and features results from the current spacecraft that are aloft, especially NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, for which one of the authors designed some of the telescopes.