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Explore the curiosities of our galaxy with this comprehensive,
digestible guide to astronomy! Too often, textbooks obscure the
beauty and wonder of outer space with tedious discourse that even
Galileo would oppose. Astronomy 101 cuts out the boring details and
lengthy explanations, and instead, gives you a lesson in astronomy
that keeps you engaged as you discover what's hidden beyond our
starry sky. From the Big Bang and nebulae to the Milky Way and Sir
Isaac Newton, this celestial primer is packed with hundreds of
entertaining astronomy facts, charts, and photographs you won't be
able to get anywhere else. So whether you're looking to unravel the
mystery behind black holes, or just want to learn more about your
favorite planets, Astronomy 101 has all the answers-even the ones
you didn't know you were looking for.
Living with the Stars tells the fascinating story of what truly
makes the human body. The body that is with us all our lives is
always changing. We are quite literally not who we were years,
weeks, or even days ago: our cells die and are replaced by new ones
at an astonishing pace. The entire body continually rebuilds
itself, time and again, using the food and water that flow through
us as fuel and as construction material. What persists over time is
not fixed but merely a pattern in flux. We rebuild using elements
captured from our surroundings, and are thereby connected to
animals and plants around us, and to the bacteria within us that
help digest them, and to geological processes such as continental
drift and volcanism here on Earth. We are also intimately linked to
the Sun's nuclear furnace and to the solar wind, to collisions with
asteroids and to the cycles of the birth of stars and their deaths
in cataclysmic supernovae, and ultimately to the beginning of the
universe. Our bodies are made of the burned out embers of stars
that were released into the galaxy in massive explosions billions
of years ago, mixed with atoms that formed only recently as
ultrafast rays slammed into Earth's atmosphere. All of that is not
just remote history but part of us now: our human body is
inseparable from nature all around us and intertwined with the
history of the universe.
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Asteroids
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Clifford J Cunningham
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Grounded in historical studies of asteroids from the nineteenth
century, Asteroids is a fully up to date view of these remarkable
objects. Without resorting to any technical plots or mathematics,
the author shows that asteroids are not just rocks in space, but
key to understanding the life and death on Earth of both animals
and humans. From space missions to the asteroids' starring role in
literature and film, Clifford J. Cunningham precisely and
entertainingly looks at the place asteroids have in our solar
system and how they affect our daily lives.
Increasing discoveries of new planets beyond our solar system are
invigorating the quest for new knowledge and understanding of the
birth of stars and planets. This new volume in the Space Science
Series, with 249 contributing authors, builds on the latest results
from recent advances in ground and space-based astronomy and in
numerical computing techniques to offer the most detailed and
up-to-date picture of star and planet formation, including the
formation of our own solar system. This book emphasizes the
cross-disciplinary aspects of the field, with a particular focus on
the early evolution of our solar system. Protostars and Planets V
is the new foundation for further advancement in the fields of
stellar and planetary formation, making it an indispensable
resource for researchers and students in astronomy, planetary
science, and the study of meteorites.
Dieses Buch zeigt, wie spannend Astronomie sein kann. Mit einfachen
Beobachtungen kann man wichtige Fragen der Menschheit eroertern:
Wie ist das Universum entstanden und wo ist unser Platz darin? Der
Leser erhalt praktische Informationen, um die Faszination des
Nachthimmels selbst zu erleben: Welches Teleskop ist geeignet,
welche Details lassen sich damit auf den Himmelskoerpern erkennen
u.v.m.. Der Autor beschreibt die Planetenbewegungen und wann
selbige zu beobachten sind. Tipps zur Fotografie der Himmelskoerper
mit Digitalkameras oder Webcams werden ebenfalls gegeben. Neben
Anleitungen zu eigenen Beobachtungen erhalt der Leser auch
astrophysikalisches Hintergrundwissen zu den Fragen "Wie entstehen
Sterne und Planeten?", "Gibt es auf den neu gefundenen Exoplaneten
Leben?" und "Was ist Dunkle Materie?". Mit diesem Buch werden die
Wunder des Universums rasch zu einer Freude. Aber Vorsicht:
Sternegucken kann suchtig machen.
Fundamental Astronomy is a well-balanced, comprehensive
introduction to classical and modern astronomy. While emphasizing
both the astronomical concepts and the underlying physical
principles, the text provides a sound basis for more profound
studies in the astronomical sciences. This is the fifth edition of
the successful undergraduate textbook and reference work. It has
been extensively modernized and extended in the parts dealing with
extragalactic astronomy and cosmology. You will also find augmented
sections on the solar system and extrasolar planets as well as a
new chapter on astrobiology. Long considered a standard text for
physical science majors, Fundamental Astronomy is also an excellent
reference work for dedicated amateur astronomers.
Starting out from humankind's earliest ideas about the cosmos, this
book gives the reader a clear overview of our current understanding
of the universe, including big bang theories and the formation of
stars and galaxies, as well as addressing open questions. The
author shows how our present view gradually developed from
observations, and also how the outcome of ongoing research may
still change this view. The book brings together concepts in
physics and astronomy, including some history in both cases. The
text is descriptive rather than technical: the goal is to present
things rigorously and without oversimplification, by highlighting
the crucial physical concepts. The only prerequisite is a
qualitative knowledge of basic physics concepts at high-school
level.
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