Astronomy, space and time

How does the scientific enterprise really work to illuminate the origins of life and the universe itself?

How does the scientific enterprise really work to illuminate the origins of life and the universe itself?

If the discovery of life elsewhere in the universe is just around the corner, what would be the consequences for religion?

If the discovery of life elsewhere in the universe is just around the corner, what would be the consequences for religion?

This book stems from the worrying scale and intensity of conflicts, humanitarian crises, and human rights violations around the world, which can be seen in a wide range of global hotspots including Venezuela, Yemen, Syria, Myanmar, Sudan, Eritrea, and numerous others.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the role space is playing in unlocking Latin America's developmental aspirations.

This textbook offers a readily comprehensible introduction to classical Newtonian gravitation, which is fundamental for an understanding of classical mechanics and is particularly relevant to Astrophysics.

This comprehensive textbook on relativity integrates Newtonian physics, special relativity and general relativity into a single book that emphasizes the deep underlying principles common to them all, yet explains how they are applied in different ways in these three contexts.

This textbook provides the basic theoretical and practical knowledge of astronomy and astrophysics.

This textbook gradually introduces the reader to several topics related to black hole physics with a didactic approach.

This is the story of humankind's quest over centuries to learn the true nature of the most dominant object in our Solar System: the Sun.

This book, edited by the European Space Policy Institute, is the first international publication, following UNISPACE+50, to analyze how space capacity building can empower the international community towards fully accessing all the economic and societal benefits that space assets and data can offer.

In the late 20th and beginning 21st century high-precision astronomy, positioning and metrology strongly rely on general relativity.

This book on high-energy cosmic rays deals in its first part with the standard model of cosmic rays, describing how they are born in a wide range of cosmic processes, how they are accelerated and how they interact with matter, magnetic fields and radiation during their journey across the Galaxy.

This book uses new data from the very low radio frequency telescope LOFAR to analyse the magnetic structure in the giant radio galaxy NGC6251.

This book describes how and why the early modern period witnessed the marginalisation of astrology in Western natural philosophy, and the re-adoption of the cosmological view of the existence of a plurality of worlds in the universe, allowing the possibility of extraterrestrial life.

In the last 25 years, planetary science experienced a revolution, as vast oceans of liquid water have been discovered within the heart of the icy moons of our Solar System.

This textbook presents the basics of philosophy that are necessary for the student and researcher in science in order to better understand scientific work.

This book presents contributions from an internal symposium organized to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Specola Vaticana, or Vatican Observatory, in the Papal Palace of Castel Gandolfo.

The aim of this essay is to understand the relationship between knowledge and society and to reflect on the links between science and political decision making.

This non-technical biography of Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn (1851-1922) presents to the general reader the scientific life of the astronomer who pioneered the studies of the structure of the Milky Way Galaxy.

The story of European-Russian collaboration in space is little known and its importance all too often understated.

This book is a gentle introduction for all those wishing to learn about modern views of the cosmos.

This book analyses the magnificent imperial necropolises of ancient China from the perspective of Archaeoastronomy, a science which takes into account the landscape in which ancient monuments are placed, focusing especially but not exclusively on the celestial aspects.

This carefully researched monograph is a historical investigation of the illustrated Aratea astronomical manuscript and its many interpretations over the centuries.

This book is based on the findings, conclusions and recommendations of the Global Space Governance study commissioned by the 2014 Montreal Declaration that called upon civil society, academics, governments, the private sector, and other stakeholders to undertake an international interdisciplinary study.

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This edited volume presents the current state of gas accretion studies from both observational and theoretical perspectives, and charts our progress towards answering the fundamental yet elusive question of how galaxies get their gas.

This book presents the Green's function formalism in a basic way and demonstrates its usefulness for applications to several well-known problems in classical physics which are usually solved not by this formalism but other approaches.

This monograph is a detailed study, and systematic defence, of the Growing Block Theory of time (GBT), first conceived by C.

This book addresses the complex technical challenges presented by remote space mining in terms of robotics, remote power systems, space transport, IT and communications systems, and more.

Understanding the stars is the bedrock of modern astrophysics.

This work celebrates the investigative power of phenomenology to explore the phenomenological sense of space and time in conjunction with the phenomenology of intentionality, the invisible, the sacred, and the mystical.

Gravitational waves were first predicted by Albert Einstein in 1916, a year after the development of his new theory of gravitation known as the general theory of relativity.

This biography covers the life of Lewis Swift (1820-1913), who discovered 13 comets and nearly 1,200 other deep sky objects.

This book assesses the origin of asteroids by analyzing the discovery of Vesta in 1807.

This is a second edition of a textbook that provides the first comprehensive, easy-to-read, and up-to-date account of the fascinating discipline of archaeoastronomy, in which the relationship between ancient constructions and the sky is studied in order to gain a better understanding of the ideas of the architects of the past and of their religious and symbolic worlds.

This book provides a unique insight into the research and recent developments undertaken among the African Remote Sensing community in regard to the environment.

Guided by genius engineer Hideo Itokawa, Japan's space program began with small scientific satellites more than 50 years ago.

"e;A must-have for anybody interested in lunar photography.

A pedagogical approach to cosmology that integrates theory with computational and data-analysis techniques, to prepare readers for further research.

Powerful solar explosions, such as flares and coronal mass ejections, greatly disturb the electromagnetic environment around the Earth and the atmosphere.

This textbook provides the basic theoretical and practical knowledge of astronomy and astrophysics.

This revealing work examines an approach from ancient astronomy to what was then a particularly important question, namely that of understanding the relationship between the position in the ecliptic and the time it takes for a fixed-length of the ecliptic beginning at that point to rise above the eastern horizon.

This book explores creative solutions to the unique challenges inherent in crafting livable spaces in extra-terrestrial environments.

Explorer was the original American space program and Explorer 1 its first satellite, launched in 1958.

This thesis describes advances in the understanding of HgCdTe detectors.

A series of increasingly capable spacecraft were sent to explore the inner planets Venus and Mercury.