Galaxies and stars

Twelve-year-old Clyde Tombaugh stepped up and took his first look through a telescope.

Observa cómo se compara Venus con todos los planetas cercanos.

Blast off with SpaceX, the company that builds and launches rockets and spacecraft.

Each asteroid and comet is unique.

Humans might one day travel to Mars.

The Moon is our neighbor in space.

Recommended for viewing on a colour tablet.

Through reader-friendly text and incredible photos, this book explores the search for life on other planets.

Die Kosmochemie befasst sich mit der Entstehung der Elemente, ihrer Isotope, und ihrer Verteilung im Universum.

'It is strongly biased towards the author's speciality of galaxy morphology, and particularly to bars and rings.

Earth is truly amazing!

Presents observational and theoretical papers from world experts addressing the important role in astrophysics of massive stars.

Take a deep look into some of the most mysterious objects in the universe-black holes.

Jupiter is our solar system's largest planet.

At a moderately advanced level, this book seeks to cover the areas of clustering and related methods of data analysis where major advances are being made.

Read about scientists' recent discoveries about Uranus and what they hope to find out about the planet in the future.

Easy-to-use guide to the constellations of the southern night sky and their myths and legends.

Blast off in this exciting exploration of these essential space machines!

Since the dawn of humankind, people have looked upward to the heavens and tried tounderstand what's out there.

Simply, the most beautiful and complete reference on the Messier objects there has ever been!

Did you know that twelve Americans have set foot on the moon?

Supernovae are highly energetic phenomena for which it is necessary to use simultaneously particle physics, nuclear physics and hydrodynamics to study the creation of the strong explosions involved.

What do you know about stars?

Edited 2005 volume providing an important resource on extrasolar planets, for professional researchers and graduate students.

If standard gravitational theory is correct, then most of the matter in the universe is in an unidentified form which does not emit enough light to have been detected by current instrumentation.

Venus is the hottest planet in our Solar System.

Active Galactic Nuclei This AGN textbook gives an overview on the current knowledge of the Active Galacitc Nuclei phenomenon.

This book discusses the methods used in helio- and asteroseismology for the collection, analysis and interpretation of data.

Life on Earth could not exist without the Sun.

The study of dust in the universe is an exciting area in current astronomy.

An advanced review of how binary stars affect stellar evolution, presenting results from state-of-the art models and recent observations.

Stars are unimaginably massive and hot, and galaxies have billions of them.

It's been more than fifty years since humans stepped foot on the moon.

Black holes are one of the greatest mysteries of outer space.

This book discusses Mars' distinguishing characteristics, its position in the solar system its composition and atmospheric conditions, its moons, and how scientists have learned about Mars over time.

A thought provoking study of the powerful impact of images in guiding astronomers'' understanding of galaxies through time.

Until the mid-1990s, scientists only guessed that the universe held exoplanets, or planets beyond our solar system.

Each asteroid and comet is unique.

Ideal for astronomers worldwide, the fourth edition of this classic atlas features new Moon maps, new data and enhanced charts.

Space observations are currently providing a glimpse of various new states of matter possibly present in compact stars, with terrestrial laboratories producing compelling evidence in support.

Could humans live on Earth's moon?

Young readers will explore Mercury and learn what scientists hope to discover about it in the future.

This volume provides the first self-contained treatment of the structure, stability and oscillations of rotating neutron stars.

From earliest times, humans have wondered about the sky above them and have studied all visible objects.

The moon is home to tons of metals, minerals, and other natural resources that people use.

¿Alguna vez te preguntaste qué hace brillar a una estrella?

It's been more than fifty years since humans stepped foot on the moon.

Take a trip to outer space with this weird and wonderful guide to our universe, the perfect gift for both young and old Vargic's beautifully innovative designs will help to explain all of the bizarre and fascinating aspects of the cosmos; from the history of the universe to what makes up our solar system and even how human life fits into the wider picture.