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  • Cosmic Rays in Star-Forming Environments

    Proceedings of the Second Session of the Sant Cugat Forum on Astrophysics

    Edited by Diego F. Torres, Olaf Reimer ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    These are the proceedings of the Sant Cugat Forum 2nd Workshop on Cosmic-ray Induced Phenomenology in Stellar Environments, held April 16-19, 2012. The aim of this Workshop was to address the current knowledge and challenges of high-energy emission from stellar environments at all scales and provide a comprehensive review of the state of the field from the observational to the theoretical ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

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    Physical Processes

    by Sara Seager ...
    Series series Princeton Series in Astrophysics
    Over the past twenty years, astronomers have identified hundreds of extrasolar planets--planets orbiting stars other than the sun. Recent research in this burgeoning field has made it possible to observe and measure the atmospheres of these exoplanets. This is the first textbook to describe the basic physical processes--including radiative transfer, molecular absorption, and chemical processes- ... Read more

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  • The Telescope in the Ice

    Inventing a New Astronomy at the South Pole

    by Mark Bowen ...
    IceCube Observatory, a South Pole instrument making the first actual observations of high-energy neutrinos, has been called the "weirdest" of the seven wonders of modern astronomy by Scientific American. In The Telescope in the Ice, Mark Bowen tells the amazing story of the people who built the instrument and the science involved.Located near the U. S. Amundsen-Scott Research Station at the ... Read more

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  • The Universe in a Mirror

    The Saga of the Hubble Space Telescope and the Visionaries Who Built It

    by Robert Zimmerman ...
    The Hubble Space Telescope has produced the most stunning images of the cosmos humanity has ever seen. It has transformed our understanding of the universe around us, revealing new information about its age and evolution, the life cycle of stars, and the very existence of black holes, among other startling discoveries. But it took an amazing amount of work and perseverance to get the first space ... Read more

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  • Religions and Extraterrestrial Life

    How Will We Deal With It?

    by David A. Weintraub ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    In the twenty-first century, the debate about life on other worlds is quickly changing from the realm of speculation to the domain of hard science. Within a few years, as a consequence of the rapid discovery by astronomers of planets around other stars, astronomers very likely will have discovered clear evidence of life beyond the Earth. Such a discovery of extraterrestrial life will change ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Software and Data for Practical Astronomers

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    by David Ratledge ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)

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  • Out There

    A Scientific Guide to Alien Life, Antimatter, and Human Space Travel (For the Cosmically Curious)

    by Michael Wall ...
    In the vein of Randall Munroe's What If? meets Brian Green's Elegant Universe, a senior writer from Space.com leads readers on a wild ride of exploration into the final frontier, investigating what's really "out there."We've all asked ourselves the question. It's impossible to look up at the stars and NOT think about it: Are we alone in the universe? Books, movies and television shows proliferate ... Read more

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  • Dwarf Galaxies: Keys to Galaxy Formation and Evolution

    Proceedings of Symposium 3 of JENAM 2010

    Edited by Polychronis Papaderos, Simone Recchi, Gerhard Hensler ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    Dwarf galaxy research constitutes an extremely vibrant field of astrophysical research, with many long-standing questions still unsettled and new ones constantly arising. The intriguing diversity of the dwarf galaxy population, observed with advanced ground-based and space-borne observatories over a wide spectral window providing an unprecedented level of detail, poses new challenges for both ... Read more

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  • Fundamental Questions of Practical Cosmology

    Exploring the Realm of Galaxies

    by Yurij Baryshev, Pekka Teerikorpi ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This book guides readers (astronomers, physicists, and university students) through central questions of Practical Cosmology, a term used by the late Allan Sandage to denote the modern scientific endeavor to find the cosmological model best describing the universe of galaxies, its geometry, size, age, and matter composition. The authors draw on their personal experience in astrophysics and ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Sources and Detection of Dark Matter and Dark Energy in the Universe

    Proceedings of the 10th UCLA Symposium on Sources and Detection of Dark Matter and Dark Energy in the Universe, February 22-24, 2012, Marina del Rey, California

    Edited by David Cline ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    These proceedings provide the latest results on dark matter and dark energy research. The UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy hosted its tenth Dark Matter and Dark Energy conference in Marina del Rey and brought together all the leaders in the field. The symposium provided a scientific forum for the latest discussions in the field.Topics covered at the symposium:•Status of measurements of the ... Read more

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  • The Three-body Problem from Pythagoras to Hawking

    by Mauri Valtonen, Joanna Anosova, Konstantin Kholshevnikov, Aleksandr Mylläri, Victor Orlov, Kiyotaka Tanikawa ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This book, written for a general readership, reviews and explains the three-body problem in historical context reaching to latest developments in computational physics and gravitation theory. The three-body problem is one of the oldest problems in science and it is most relevant even in today’s physics and astronomy.The long history of the problem from Pythagoras to Hawking parallels the evolution ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • How Do You Find an Exoplanet?

    by John Asher Johnson ...
    Series series Princeton Frontiers in Physics
    An authoritative primer on the cutting-edge science of planet huntingAlien worlds have long been a staple of science fiction. But today, thanks to modern astronomical instrumentation and the achievements of many enterprising observational astronomers, the existence of planets outside our solar system—also known as exoplanets—has moved into the realm of science fact. With planet hunters finding ... Read more

    $32.99 USD