Astronomy, space and time

This volume aims to make Stephen of Pisa and Antioch's work on the celestial sciences accessible to a wider readership, providing not just the text but a translation and introduction as well.

This book provides an extensive overview of the protection of cultural heritages sites on the Moon (humanity's lunar heritage) and the various threats they face.

This book covers solar energy and the use of solar radiation in connection with lighting.

This book reports on the extraordinary observation of TeV gamma rays from the Crab Pulsar, the most energetic light ever detected from this type of object.

Despite the success of general relativity in explaining classical gravitational phenomena, several problems at the interface between gravitation and high energy physics still remain open.

There are several billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy.

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July 2019 marks 50 years since Neil Armstrong took his famous first steps on the surface of the Moon.

This book describes the future of the Artemis Lunar Program from the years 2017 to about 2030.

In this book, all physical laws are derived from a small number of invariant integrals which express the conservation of energy, mass, or momentum.

In 2008, the European FP6 JETSET project ended.

A manned mission to Mars is faced with challenges and topics that may not be obvious but of great importance and challenging for such a mission.

This book presents the fundamental principles of Classical thermodynamics, supplemented by  an overview of Statistical Thermodynamics, and explores their applications to a wide variety of problems in the Earth and Planetary sciences, spanning the range from the Earth's core, mantle and crust, aqueous solutions and fluid-rock interactions to solar nebula, terrestrial planets and asteroids.

This textbook develops Special Relativity in a systematic way and offers problems with detailed solutions to empower students to gain a real understanding of this core subject in physics.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the chemistry of CO2 in relation to surface interactions and photocatalytic transformation by UV radiation.

This fascinating book provides an accessible and up-to-date overview of modern cosmology.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.