Astronomy, space and time

This book presents experimental work conducted on the International Space Station (ISS) in order to characterize metals and alloys in the liquid state.

This book describes the basic concepts of spacecraft operations for both manned and unmanned missions.

This book explores how Europe is seeking to enlarge its launching capacities by building additional spaceports on the European continent.

Spacelab was a reusable laboratory facility that was flown on the Space Shuttle from 1983 to 1998.

This book provides a detailed, state-of-the-art overview of key observational and theoretical aspects of the rapidly developing and highly interdisciplinary field of exoplanet science, as viewed through the lenses of eight world-class experts.

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The ancient Greeks believed that everything in the Universe should be describable in terms of geometry.

This book includes nine chapters written by internationally recognized experts, covering all aspects of millisecond pulsars in one concise and cohesive volume.

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

In this book, Boston University Professor of Astronomy Michael Mendillo takes readers deep into the annals of history, showing how visual depictions of the heavens evolved in tandem with science and religion throughout much of Western culture.

This book is a comprehensive advancement about the understanding of the volcanology of Mars in all its aspects, from its primary formation to its evolution in time, from the smaller structures to the bigger structures.

With a focus on modified gravity this book presents a review of the recent developments in the fields of gravity and cosmology, presenting the state of the art, high-lighting the open problems, and outlining the directions of future research.

This book presents recent results on the modelling of space plasmas with Kappa distributions and their interpretation.

The story of Hubble and Humason is one for the ages-and in particular, the Cosmic Age.

This book presents an overview of current views on the origin of life and its earliest evolution.

This book tells the story of how, over the past century, dedicated observers and pioneering scientists achieved our current understanding of the universe.

This book recounts the stories of the astronomical pioneers who forever changed our views of the cosmos.

Starting from Newton's times this follow-up to the author's Springer book "e;Our Place in the Universe - Understanding Fundamental Astronomy from Ancient Discoveries"e; addresses the question of "e;our place in the Universe"e; from astronomical, physical, chemical, biological, philosophical and social perspectives.

Owing to the increased accuracy requirements in fields such as astrometry and geodesy the general theory of relativity must be taken into account for any mission requiring highly accurate orbit information and for practically all observation and measurement techniques.

This book shows readers how to calculate the orbit of Mars, based on their own observations and using observations made by the author.

This book provides a comprehensive and instructive coverage of particle physics in the early universe, in a logical way.

This atlas contains everything you need to know about meteor showers and how to observe them.

For centuries, our ancestors carefully observed the movements of the heavens and wove that astronomical knowledge into their city planning, architecture, mythology, paintings, sculpture, and poetry.

This monograph develops an innovative approach that utilizes the Birman-Schwinger principle from quantum mechanics to investigate stability properties of steady state solutions in galactic dynamics.

Scientists have been searching for signals from extraterrestrial civilizations since Frank Drake's first radio survey in 1960.

This book presents the result of an innovative challenge, to create a systematic literature overview driven by machine-generated content.

This book introduces the phenomenology of gravitational lensing in an accessible manner and provides a thorough discussion of the related astrophysical applications.

This last volume of the SpringerBriefs in Space Life Sciences series is setup in 5 main parts.

This book presents more than 200 problems, with detailed guided solutions, spanning key areas of particle physics and astrophysics.

This book explores the Galilean method for geolocation, placing it in historical and astronomical context.

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.

The "e;Ashen Light"e; of Venus-a ghostly emission of light from the night side of our nearest planetary neighbor-is among the last unsolved mysteries of astronomical history.

This thesis provides a comprehensive view of the physics of charmed hadrons in high-energy proton-proton and heavy-ion collisions.

This book collates papers presented at two international conferences (held at the Australian National University in 2018 and Birkbeck College London in 2019) exploring the relationships between big history and astrobiology and their wider implications for society.

In the near future, Earth is suffering from climate change, famines, and fundamentalism.

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 book provides a solid foundation in the Python programming language, numerical methods, and data analysis, all embedded within the context of astronomy and astrophysics.

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

This is the tale of the modern Space Age, detailing all the risks, rewards and rivalries that have fueled space exploration over the decades.

Written by a professional astronomer who has worked on a wide spectrum of topics throughout his career, this book gives a popular science level description of what has become known as multimessenger astronomy.

Stratospheric balloons are powerful tools used to study the Earth and its atmosphere, as well as the greater cosmos beyond.

Keeping in mind that we can only see the universe from the comfort of our home galaxy, Bascom begins his text by meticulously laying the necessary groundwork to understand the Big Bang's mathematics without using any equations.

Antimatter is one of the most fascinating aspects of Particle Physics, and matter-antimatter annihilation the most energetic process in the universe.

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

Of all philosophers of the 20th century, few built more bridges between academic disciplines than Karl Popper.

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

This book presents the latest knowledge of the newly discovered Earth-like exoplanets and reviews improvements in both radio and optical SETI.

This collection of essays on cultural astronomy celebrates the life and work of Clive Ruggles, Emeritus Professor of Archaeoastronomy at Leicester University.

With the aid of entertaining short stories, anecdotes, lucid explanations and straight-forward figures, this book challenges the perception that the world of physics is inaccessible to the non-expert.