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.
This book presents new editions and investigations of 114 Babylonian planetary tables: cuneiform tablets inscribed with computed dates, positions, and other data for the planets Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.
It has been recognised for centuries that, statistically, the Earth must be one of many, literally billions, of planets in our Galaxy, but the first planets beyond the solar system were recognised only 30 years ago.
This book opens a new and timely conversation between the study of religion and infrastructure studies through the innovative concept of religious infrastructure.
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.
It has been recognised for centuries that, statistically, the Earth must be one of many, literally billions, of planets in our Galaxy, but the first planets beyond the solar system were recognised only 30 years ago.
This book opens a new and timely conversation between the study of religion and infrastructure studies through the innovative concept of religious infrastructure.
'This book could appeal to astronomers interested in interstellar and circumstellar matter who would like to know more about the processes in them from a chemists perspective in a modern textbook.
'This book could appeal to astronomers interested in interstellar and circumstellar matter who would like to know more about the processes in them from a chemists perspective in a modern textbook.
This long-awaited second edition of the classical textbook on Stellar Structure and Evolution by Kippenhahn and Weigert is a thoroughly revised version of the original text.
This long-awaited second edition of the classical textbook on Stellar Structure and Evolution by Kippenhahn and Weigert is a thoroughly revised version of the original text.
This book highlights selected peer-reviewed articles from the International Conference on Emerging Concepts and Research in Integrated Sustainable Adaptation, ERICSA 2026, held in Colombo, Sri Lanka, under the theme “Technological Synergies for a sustainable Sri Lanka.
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.
This proceedings book reviews the state of the art in the exploitation of machine learning techniques for the astrophysics community and gives the reader a complete overview of the field.
This proceedings book reviews the state of the art in the exploitation of machine learning techniques for the astrophysics community and gives the reader a complete overview of the field.
"e;Neutrinos in Particle Physics, Astronomy and Cosmology"e; provides a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to neutrino physics, neutrino astronomy and neutrino cosmology.
th th Mars, the Red Planet, fourth planet from the Sun, forever linked with 19 and 20 Century fantasy of a bellicose, intelligent Martian civilization.
It has always been ESO's aim to operate the VLT in an interferometric mode (VLTI) which allows the coherent combination of stellar light beams col- lected by the four 8-m telescopes and by several smaller auxiliary telescopes.
'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.
The programme of 'constructive axiomatics', promulgated by Hans Reichenbach in 1924, seeks to build up the architecture of our best theories of physics from basic axioms supposedly imbued with immediate and indubitable empirical content.
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.
