Astronomy, space and time

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.

What is the origin of the universe?

What is the origin of the universe?

John and Philosophy: A New Reading of the Fourth Gospel offers a Stoic reading of the Fourth Gospel, especially its cosmology, epistemology, and ethics.

John and Philosophy: A New Reading of the Fourth Gospel offers a Stoic reading of the Fourth Gospel, especially its cosmology, epistemology, and ethics.

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?

The standard starting point in cosmology is the cosmological principle; the assumption that the universe is spatially homogeneous and isotropic.

The standard starting point in cosmology is the cosmological principle; the assumption that the universe is spatially homogeneous and isotropic.

This book describes the fundamentals of particle detectors as well as their applications.

This textbook on the nature of space and time explains the new theory of Space Dynamics, which describes the dynamics of gravity as the evolution of conformal 3-dimensional geometry.

The cycle of day and night and the cycle of seasons are two familiar natural cycles around which many human activities are organized.

The cycle of day and night and the cycle of seasons are two familiar natural cycles around which many human activities are organized.

What can we learn about the world from engaging with fictional time-series?

The planets fascinate us, and naturally we care about our own Earth, and things like how well we can forecast the weather and whether climate is really changing.

The planets fascinate us, and naturally we care about our own Earth, and things like how well we can forecast the weather and whether climate is really changing.

La Caille was one of the observational astronomers and geodesists who followed Newton in developing ideas about celestial mechanics and the shape of the earth.

La Caille was one of the observational astronomers and geodesists who followed Newton in developing ideas about celestial mechanics and the shape of the earth.

Many regard Albert Einstein as the greatest physicist since Newton.

Many regard Albert Einstein as the greatest physicist since Newton.

The introduction of the moving sphere as a model for understanding the celestial phenomena caused a great breakthrough in scientific thinking about the structure of the world.

Spectroscopy and radiative transfer are rapidly growing fields within atmospheric and planetary science with implications for weather, climate, biogeochemical cycles, air quality on Earth, as well as the physics and evolution of planetary atmospheres in our solar system and beyond.

Radio telescopes have transformed our understanding of the Universe.

Radio telescopes have transformed our understanding of the Universe.

Every atom of our bodies has been part of a star.

Every atom of our bodies has been part of a star.

Relativity has much to offer for a well-rounded education.

This book presents a vivid argument for the almost lost idea of a unity of all natural sciences.

Ongoing studies in mathematical depth, and inferences from `helioseismological' observations of the internal solar rotation have shown up the limitations in our knowledge of the solar interior and of our understanding of the solar dynamo, manifested in particular by the sunspot cycle, the Maunder minimum, and solar flares.

Ongoing studies in mathematical depth, and inferences from `helioseismological' observations of the internal solar rotation have shown up the limitations in our knowledge of the solar interior and of our understanding of the solar dynamo, manifested in particular by the sunspot cycle, the Maunder minimum, and solar flares.

Our understanding of the physical universe underwent a revolution in the early twentieth century - evolving from the classical physics of Newton, Galileo, and Maxwell to the modern physics of relativity and quantum mechanics.

The search for a quantum theory of the gravitational field is one of the great open problems in theoretical physics.

The search for a quantum theory of the gravitational field is one of the great open problems in theoretical physics.

Our understanding of the physical universe underwent a revolution in the early twentieth century - evolving from the classical physics of Newton, Galileo, and Maxwell to the modern physics of relativity and quantum mechanics.

Just over four hundred years ago, in 1610, Galileo published the Siderius nuncius, or Starry Messenger, a 'hurried little masterpiece' in John Heilbron's words.

'Philosophy is written in this great book which is continually open before our eyes - I mean the universe.

'Philosophy is written in this great book which is continually open before our eyes - I mean the universe.

From time immemorial, poets and philosophers have looked in awe and wonder at the Universe.

Galaxies are the building blocks of the Universe: standing like islands in space, each is made up of many hundreds of millions of stars in which the chemical elements are made, around which planets form, and where on at least one of those planets intelligent life has emerged.

Modern physics has revealed the universe as a much stranger place than we could have imagined.

This book provides an up-to-date, self-contained account of deep inelastic scattering in high-energy physics, intended for graduate students and physicists new to the subject.

This book provides an up-to-date, self-contained account of deep inelastic scattering in high-energy physics, intended for graduate students and physicists new to the subject.

This Very Short Introduction looks deep into space and describes the worlds that make up our Solar System: terrestrial planets, giant planets, dwarf planets and various other objects such as satellites (moons), asteroids and Trans-Neptunian objects.

This Very Short Introduction looks deep into space and describes the worlds that make up our Solar System: terrestrial planets, giant planets, dwarf planets and various other objects such as satellites (moons), asteroids and Trans-Neptunian objects.

Just over four hundred years ago, in 1610, Galileo published the Siderius nuncius, or Starry Messenger, a 'hurried little masterpiece' in John Heilbron's words.

On March 13, 1989, the entire Quebec power grid collapsed, automatic garage doors in California suburbs began to open and close without apparent reason, and microchip production came to a halt in the Northeast; in space, communications satellites had to be manually repointed after flipping upside down, and pressure readings on hydrogen tank supplies on board the Space Shuttle Discovery peaked, causing NASA to consider aborting the mission.

Sextants at Greenwich consists of two main sections: The introductory chapters and the catalogue of navigating instruments of the National Maritime Museum.

Timekeeping is an essential activity in the modern world, and we take it for granted that our lives are shaped by the hours of the day.

What is 'the void'?

Recent discoveries in astronomy, especially those made with data collected by satellites such as the Hubble Space Telescope and the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, have revolutionized the science of cosmology.