Astrophysics

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has operated continuously since 1990.

The 1991 NRC decadal survey for astronomy and astrophysics included a project called the Millimeter Array (MMA).

In this new book, a distinguished panel makes recommendations for the nation's programs in astronomy and astrophysics, including a number of new initiatives for observing the universe.

Opportunities for High-Power, High-Frequency Transmitters to Advance Ionospheric/Thermospheric Research is the summary of a workshop convened by the Space Studies Board of the National Research Council in May 2013.

In this new book, a distinguished panel makes recommendations for the nation's programs in astronomy and astrophysics, including a number of new initiatives for observing the universe.

The 1991 NRC decadal survey for astronomy and astrophysics included a project called the Millimeter Array (MMA).

Recent spacecraft and robotic probes to Mars have yielded data that are changing our understanding significantly about the possibility of existing or past life on that planet.

A recommendation of the NRC's decadal survey in solar and space physics, published in 2002, was the Small Instrument Distributed Ground-Based Network, which would provide global-scale ionospheric and upper atmospheric measurements crucial to understanding the atmosphere-ionosphere-magnetosphere system.

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has operated continuously since 1990.

Jean-Pierre Vigier continually labeled one of les heretiques de la science, l'eternel resistant et le patriarche is yet a pillar of modern physics and mathematics, with one leg firmly planted in theory and the other in empiricism spanning a career of nearly 60 years with a publication vitae quickly approaching 400!

Essential Spaceflight Dynamics and Magnetospherics describes, in the first instance, some of the key aspects of celestial mechanics and spaceflight dynamics.

Prominent progress in science is inevitably associated with controversies.

The auroral emissions in the upper atmosphere of the polar regions of the Earth are evidence of the capture of energetic particles from the Sun, streaming by the Earth as the solar wind.

Given that the question of an internal magnetic field is of fundamental importance to the understanding of Mars' formation and thermal evolution, and of the evolution of Mars' atmosphere, surprisingly few of the many spacecraft sent to Mars were equipped with instrumentation for such investigations.

Mars, the most habitable of our sister planets, holds a special place in our imaginations and in our space exploration program.

Supernovae, hypernovae and gamma-ray bursts are among the most energetic explosions in the universe.

Since the Sun is the main source of space weather effects, the first part of the book is devoted to a general introduction to the physics of the Sun.

This textbook is intended as an introduction to the physics of solar and stellar coronae, emphasizing kinetic plasma processes.

Professor Philip G.

Based on an American Chemical Society Symposium organized by Professors Glenn Seaborg and Oliver Manuel, this volume provides a comprehensive record of different views on this important subject at the end of the 20th century.

The International Conference on Strongly Coupled Coulomb Systems was held on the campus of Boston College in Newton, Massachusetts, August 3-10, 1997.

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The aim of this volume is to offer a balanced overview of molecular Rydberg spectroscopy as it has developed over recent decades.

An award-winning science writer presents a captivating collection of cosmological essays for the armchair astronomerThe galaxy, the multiverse, and the history of astronomy are explored in this engaging compilation of cosmological tales by multiple-award-winning science writer Marcia Bartusiak.

In the decades since the mid-1970s, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, has led the quest to explore the farthest reaches of the solar system.

A fascinating account, written in real time, of the unfolding of a scientific discovery: the first detection of gravitational waves.

Particles, Fields, Space-Time: From Thomson's Electron to Higgs' Boson explores the concepts, ideas, and experimental results that brought us from the discovery of the first elementary particle in the end of the 19th century to the completion of the Standard Model of particle physics in the early 21st century.

If you've always suspected the universe was out to get you.

You're no idiot, of course.

Marvel at the wonders of the Universe, from stars and planets to black holes and nebulae, in this exploration of our Solar System and beyond.

Learn about planets, stars and black holes in The Astronomy Book.

From the world-renowned physicist and bestselling author of The Elegant Universe and The Fabric of the Cosmos, a captivating exploration of deep time and humanity's search for purposeIn both time and space, the cosmos is astoundingly vast, and yet is governed by simple, elegant, universal mathematical laws.

This book highlights stories of the most important 13 ground-based observatories and 14 space probes in human history, leading readers through each significant step of human's astronomical observation journey.

Written by one of today's most highly respected astrophysicists, Foundations of High-Energy Astrophysics is an introduction to the mathematical and physical techniques used in the study of high-energy astrophysics.

Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity describes the effect of gravitation on the shape of space and the flow of time.

Popular science readers embrace epics-the sweeping stories that claim to tell the history of all the universe, from the cosmological to the biological to the social.

If scientists can't touch the Sun, how do they know what it's made of?

Circumstellar disks are vast expanses of dust that form around new stars in the earliest stages of their birth.

According to the theory of relativity, we are constantly bathed in gravitational radiation.

In theory, at least, gravitational waves do exist.

With over 150 alphabetically arranged entries about key scientists, concepts, discoveries, technological innovations, and learned institutions, the Oxford Guide to Physics and Astronomy traces the history of physics and astronomy from the Renaissance to the present.

The success of any space flight mission depends not only on advanced technology but also on the health and well-being of crew members.

Expanding upon the ideas first proposed in his seminal book Cosmical Magnetic Fields, Eugene N.

Spacecraft such as the Pioneer, Vela, and Voyager have explored the interplanetary medium between the orbits of Mercury and Pluto.

The magnetosphere is the region where cosmic rays and the solar wind interact with the Earth's magnetic field, creating such phenomena as the northern lights and other aurorae.