To this day, humanity still has no definitive answer to one of the most fundamental questions concerning its own existence: from whom or from what does it originate, how did it come into being, and what is the true cause of its existence?
In August 1977, a radio telescope in Ohio recorded six unusual measurements - 6EQUJ5 - and astronomer Jerry Ehman wrote a single word beside them: Wow!
Beyond Solitude: The Science and Mystery of Cosmic Civilisations is your smart, accessible companion to the biggest live investigation in science: the search for life and intelligence beyond Earth.
Liebe Lesende, als ich vor einer Gruppe von Schulerinnen und Schulern von meinem Studium erzahlte, lie die Frage nicht lange auf sich warten: Was ist ein Schwarzes Loch?
An einem eiskalten Februarmorgen im Jahr 2013 erlebte die russische Industriestadt Tscheljabinsk, was passiert, wenn das Universum ohne jegliche Vorwarnung zuschlägt.
Tras el nombre de agujeros negros, que alimenta el imaginario colectivo, se esconden cuerpos celestes conceptualmente muy simples y, al mismo tiempo, muy difíciles de estudiar.
En este ensayo, el profesor Moltó busca respuestas a preguntas ancestrales sobre el origen de la vida y el cosmos y utiliza herramientas científicas modernas, así como la sabiduría tradicional para encontrar respuestas aproximativas a estas complejas cuestiones.
Este libro breve y conciso cuenta de forma ágil y clara, elegante y con sentido del humor, los momentos estelares de la historia del universo y explica cuándo y (lo que es más importante) cómo se produjeron los principales acontecimientos que jalonan una trayectoria que puede cifrarse aproximadamente en 13,8 millardos de años.
Los pilares de la creación cuenta la historia de uno de los mayores logros científicos en la historia de la civilización, un telescopio que ha costado 10 000 millones de dólares y tiene el objetivo más ambicioso posible: descubrir los secretos del cosmos.
Astronomía no visual es un libro ligado a una trayectoria de diez años de compromiso para derribar el prejuicio de que solo podemos comprender el universo a través de nuestros ojos.
Something struck the Earth 12,900 years ago — not once, but in a swarm, delivering the force of hundreds of nuclear weapons across multiple continents in the span of hours.
'A fascinating and enticing vision of the utopian New World that Robert Zubrin believes could and should be created on the Red Planet Martin ReesThe world's leading expert on the human settlement of Mars explains what Martian societies will look like - sooner than we thinkWithin a few years, humans will be able to voyage to Mars.
This book is a Weekend Pocketbook on Everything You Should Know About the Shape of the Universe, the story of one of cosmology's oldest and biggest questions: what does the whole cosmos look like?
The Distance Ladder – Climbing from Earth to the Edge of the Observable Universe is a guided exploration of cosmic scale unlike anything most readers have ever encountered.
This is the first complete English translation of Geminos's Introduction to the Phenomena--one of the most important and interesting astronomical works of its type to have survived from Greek antiquity.
A NEW SCIENTIST BEST NEW SCIENCE BOOK APRIL 2026 Stand out a persuasive case for getting our noses out of our phones and raising our eyes to the skies.
Tony Rothman, profesor de fisica en Harvard y Princeton, nos guia paso a paso entre grandes temas que ocupan a los cosmologos contemporaneos, desde la materia oscura a la gravedad cuantica.
Predichas hace un siglo de forma asombrosa por Albert Einstein en su Teoria de la relatividad general (publicada en esta coleccion) y buscadas a tientas y con escepticismo por los cientificos desde entonces, las ondas gravitatorias -tenues y escurridizas vibraciones del tejido mismo de la realidad que abren una nueva ventana al cosmos- solo fueron detectadas por primera vez en 2015 gracias al experimento estadounidense LIGO, reforzado en breve por el detector europeo VIRGO, en el cual Matteo Barsuglia, autor de este libro, desempena un papel central.
Covering both radial and nonradial oscillations, this book includes not only a thorough treatment of the basic theory of stellar pulsation but also a comprehensive synthesis of the most recent work done in this area.
An essential introduction to the theory of exoplanetary atmospheresThe study of exoplanetary atmospheres-that is, of planets orbiting stars beyond our solar system-may be our best hope for discovering life elsewhere in the universe.
Graduate students in the natural sciences-including not only geophysics and space physics but also atmospheric and planetary physics, ocean sciences, and astronomy-need a broad-based mathematical toolbox to facilitate their research.
This book provides a comprehensive, self-contained introduction to one of the most exciting frontiers in astrophysics today: the quest to understand how the oldest and most distant galaxies in our universe first formed.
A graduate-level textbook on the astrophysics of binary star systems and their evolutionPhysics of Binary Star Evolution is an up-to-date textbook on the astrophysics and evolution of binary star systems.
This book brings together a number of lectures given between 1993 and 1999 as part of a special series hosted by the Federal University of Pernambuco, in which internationally established researchers came to Recife, Brazil, to lecture on classical or celestial mechanics.
Here, one of the world's leading astrophysicists provides the first comprehensive and logically structured overview of the many ideas and discoveries pertaining to the supermassive black hole at the galactic center known as Sagittarius A*.
The breakup of the Space Shuttle Columbia as it reentered Earth's atmosphere on February 1, 2003, reminded the public--and NASA--of the grave risks posed to spacecraft by everything from insulating foam to space debris.
Studies of stars and stellar populations, and the discovery and characterization of exoplanets, are being revolutionized by new satellite and telescope observations of unprecedented quality and scope.
Deep within galaxies like the Milky Way, astronomers have found a fascinating legacy of Einstein's general theory of relativity: supermassive black holes.
The first collection and translation into English of the earliest biographical accounts of Galileo's lifeThis unique critical edition presents key early biographical accounts of the life and work of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), written by his close contemporaries.
SSQG SCALER SONIC QUANTUM GEOMETRY AND THE UNIFIED PHYSICS OF FREQUENCY UNVEILS A REVOLUTIONARY FRAMEWORK THAT SHATTERS CONVENTIONAL UNDERSTANDING, UNIFYING THE FUNDAMENTAL FORCES OF PHYSICS WITH THE PRIMORDIAL POWER OF FREQUENCY.
