Astronomy, space and time

This book provides a detailed review of terminations of ice ages, including a very attractive theory based on dust deposits on ice sheets.

This book is an original study aimed at understanding how vacuum magnetic fields change with time.

This book is based on an initiative made by the European Space Policy Institute, the European Centre for Space Law and the German Aerospace Center.

Explore the beauty and awe of the heavens through the rich celestial prints and star atlases offered in this third edition book.

Based on a Simons Symposium held in 2018, the proceedings in this volume focus on the theoretical, numerical, and observational quest for dark matter in the universe.

In this comprehensive and interdisciplinary volume, former NASA Chief Historian Steven Dick reflects on the exploration of space, astrobiology and its implications, cosmic evolution, astronomical institutions, discovering and classifying the cosmos, and the philosophy of astronomy.

In the past decade, the field of small satellites has expanded the space industry in a powerful way.

Written by a leading expert on comets, this textbook is divided into seven main elements with a view to allowing advanced students to appreciate the interconnections between the different elements.

This book is the first thorough and overdue biography of one of the giants of science in the twentieth century, Jan Hendrik Oort.

The European Space Agency has a long history of human spaceflight, working with both NASA and the Soviet/Russian space agencies over the years.

This textbook introduces the reader to the basic concepts and equations that describe stellar structure.

In 2019, China astonished the world by landing a spacecraft and rover on the far side of the Moon, something never achieved by any country before.

This book proposes a framework for assessing countries' levels of compliance with international space law and norms.

Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Welt des alten Ägyptens, wo der Nachthimmel nicht nur ein Schauplatz für himmlische Phänomene war, sondern die Bühne, auf der Götter und Sterne das Schicksal der Menschen bestimmten.

This book examines the background and context of Latin America's political and socioeconomic landscape with a focus on space activities.

This book explores the dynamics of planetary and stellar fluid layers, including atmospheres, oceans, iron cores, and convective and radiative zones in stars, describing the different theoretical, computational and experimental methods used to study these problems in fluid mechanics, including the advantages and limitations of each method for different problems.

I first had a quick look, then I started reading it.

This book derives and analyzes all solutions to the Kepler problem with dark energy (DE), presenting significant results such as: (a) all radial infinite motions obey Hubble's law at large times; (b) all orbital infinite motions are asymptotically radial and obey Hubble's law; (c) infinite orbital motions strongly dominate the finite ones.

After an extensive introduction to the asymptotic safety approach to quantum gravity, this thesis explains recent key advances reported in four influential papers.

The first edition of this ground breaking reference work was the most comprehensive reference source available about the key aspects of the satellite applications field.

Designing a habitat for the lunar surface?

This book explains how the achievements of the Space Shuttle, the world's first reusable manned spacecraft, were built on the foundation of countless technical challenges.

This volume collects both essays and fictional material around two core topics in the long career of the Serbian writer, essayist, researcher, publisher and translator.

This book is for the aging amateur astronomy population, including newcomers to astronomy in their retirement and hobbyists who loved peering through a telescope as a child.

This book is a distinctively original biography of Galileo Galilei, probably the last eclectic genius of the Italian Renaissance, who was not only one of the greatest scientists ever, but also a philosopher, a theologian, and a man of great literary, musical, and artistic talent - "e;The Tuscan Artist"e;, as the poet John Milton referred to him.

The creation and utilization of the International Space Station (ISS) is a milestone in space exploration.

This thesis by Cole Johnston brings novel insights into the inner workings of young massive stars.

This book is about the dark photon which is a new gauge boson whose existence has been conjectured.

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Outer Space Treaty this book gives a first insight into where the next generation considers room for further improvement of the Outer Space Treaty in order to cope with upcoming aspects such as providing solutions for the emerging commercial, economic, environmental and social questions.

This is the second edition of a well-received book that is a modern, self-contained introduction to the theory of gravitational interactions.

The three neutrinos are ghostly elementary particles that exist all across the Universe.

This book tells the fascinating stories of the valiant women who broke down barriers to join the space program.

This textbook introduces the theories and practical procedures used in planetary spacecraft navigation.

For the past 20 years causality violations and superluminal motion have been the object of intensive study as physical and geometrical phenomena.

This book takes a close look at our relationship with the sky, the stars, light and darkness.

Here is an accurate and readable translation of a seminal article by Henri Poincare that is a classic in the study of dynamical systems popularly called chaos theory.

The book is about exact space-time models of the gravitational fields produced by gravitational radiation.

This book presents a high-level study of cosmology with interacting dark energy and no additional fields.

This thesis presents the state of the art in the study of Bondi-Metzner-Sachs (BMS) symmetry and its applications in the simplified setting of three dimensions.

This book is a small but practical summary of how one can and should learn science.

This book focuses on all of the major problems associated with the absence of body weight in space, by analyzing effects, adaption, and re-adaptation upon returning to Earth, using sound scientific principles embedded in a historical context.

This work investigates the theoretical and cosmological implications of modifying Einstein's theory of general relativity.

In September 1969, several months after the Apollo 11 lunar landing, President Richard M.

This book focuses on the most recent, relevant, comprehensive and significant aspects in the well-established multidisciplinary field Laboratory Astrophysics.

This astronomy travel guide examines the many wonderful opportunities for experiencing the observing hobby.

This book argues that while the historiography of the development of scientific ideas has for some time acknowledged the important influences of socio-cultural and material contexts, the significant impact of traumatic events, life threatening illnesses and other psychotropic stimuli on the development of scientific thought may not have been fully recognised.

This book presents the proceedings of the IVth Azores International Advanced School in Space Sciences entitled "e;Asteroseismology and Exoplanets: Listening to the Stars and Searching for New Worlds"e;.

This volume comprises a selection of papers describing the main features of the Lanzarote and Chinijo Islands Geopark (Canary Archipelago, Spain).

The Handbook of Exoplanets contains 15 sections dealing with all aspects of exoplanets and exobiology research, including historic aspects, the Solar System as a template, objects at the planet-to-star transition, exoplanet detection and characterization with related instrumentation, technology and software tools, planet and planet-system statistics with recent and planned surveys, their atmosphere and formation and evolution processes, habitability and exobiology implications, and outlooks for future exploration and science development.

This thesis presents studies of the starless core populations of three nearby molecular clouds made as part of the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope Gould Belt Survey.