Space Science

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941983348Author Fred EspenakFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Astropixels PublishingPublisher Astropixels PublishingWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm)...

Almost 30 years after the Apollo missions, 'Tranquillity Base', 'Hadley Rille', or 'Taurus-Littrow' are names still resonant with the enormous achievements represented by the lunar landings. But how did these places get their names? Who named Copernicus...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941983300Author Fred EspenakFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Astropixels PublishingPublisher Astropixels PublishingWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm)...

The Andromeda Galaxy - Messier's M31 - has an almost romantic appeal. It is the most distant object and the only extragalactic object that is visible to the unaided human eye. Now known to be about 21/2 million light-years away, it appears in the sky to...

This interdisciplinary book probes the subject of extraterrestrial intelligent life, offering scientific and technological implications, discussing the philosophical and religious connotations and rebuffing pseudo-scientific assertions such as 'rare...

Jupiter's ice moon Europa is widely regarded as the most likely place to find extraterrestrial life. This book tells the engaging story of Europa, the oceanic moon. It features a large number of stunning images of the ocean moon's surface, clearly...

Few scientists are as recognizable as Stephen Hawking. Despite having Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's Disease)-an affliction that many experts expected to have killed him decades ago-Hawking remains a vital and influential voice in the...

Stars are the fundamental observable constituents of the Universe. They are the first objects we see in the night sky, they dominate the light produced in our own and other galaxies, and nucleosynthesis in stars produces all the elements heavier than...

* A detailed and comprehensive guide to observing the deep sky * All descriptions meticulously researched and checked for this book * Information and descriptions for more than 2000 galaxies, nebulae and star clusters * Suitable for use with small...

Three great scientific revolutions have shaped our understanding of the cosmos and our relationship to it. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries witnessed the Copernican Revolution, which bodychecked the Earth as the pivot point of creation and joined...

Asteroid science is a fundamental topic in planetary science and is key to furthering our understanding of planetary formation and the evolution of the Solar System. Ground-based observations and missions have provided a wealth of new data in recent...

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

How the scientific community overlooked, ignored, and denied the catastrophic fallout of decades of nuclear testing in the American West In December of 1950, President Harry Truman gave authorization for the Atomic Energy Commission to conduct weapons...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781429628143Author Martha E. H. RustadFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Capstone PressPublisher Coughlan Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087904948Author Ramon OlivaresFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 9mm

This book explains - in simple terms and with almost no mathematics - the physics behind recent and glamorous discoveries in Cosmology, Quantum Mechanics, Elementary Particles (e.g. Higgs bosons) and Complexity Theory. En route it delves into the...

How to Use a Computerized Telescope is the first handbook that describes how to get your computerized telescope up and running, and how to embark on a program of observation. It explains in detail how the sky moves, how your telescope tracks it, and how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780934546751Author Guy OttewellFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Universal WorkshopPublisher Universal WorkshopWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

For the majority of amateur astronomers, who live at the latitudes of North America, the British Isles and Australia, the aurora is a relatively infrequent visitor to the night sky. Major displays visible to the southern United States or the south of...

Planetary Science is an exciting, fast-moving, interdisciplinary field with courses taught in a wide range of departments, including astronomy, physics, chemistry, earth sciences and biology. Planets and Planetary Systems is a well-written, concise...

Since the very beginning of astronomy, people have looked up sky and constructed patterns - the constellations - out of the almost random scattering of stars in the night sky. The fact that the constellations are still used to day reflects not their...

This handbook is a guide to exploring the classical night sky and its wonderful telescopic sights. All 88 officially recognized constellations are presented in natural groups which are related by their origin and location in the sky. Each group is...

In the near future, Earth is suffering from climate change, famines, and fundamentalism, a global nuclear war is imminent. Interstellar probes from the Breakthrough Starshot project initiated by J. Milner and S. Hawking, have discovered a habitable...

This book is a historical account of how natural philosophers and scientists have endeavoured to understand the universe at large, first in a mythical and later in a scientific context. Starting with the creation stories of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia,...

The Ballet of the Planets unravels the beautiful mystery of planetary motion, revealing how our understanding of astronomy evolved from Archimedes and Ptolemy to Copernicus, Kepler, and Newton. Mathematician Donald Benson shows that ancient theories of...

Alien 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938024542Author Rhawn Gabriel JosephFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Science PublishersPublisher Science PublishersWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm)...

'We can conceive of the active heavenly sphere mirrored in the Earth.'-- Rudolf Steiner'As above, so below' is the foundation of all star wisdom. It was known in ancient times that there are correspondences between the macrocosm (heavenly realm) and the...

For over a quarter of a century, gamma-ray bursts were the outstanding mystery in astronomy. No one knew where they were or how they worked. The Biggest Bangs tells how the mystery was unraveled, from the discovery of gamma-ray bursts by a Cold War...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784286613Author Anne RooneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint ArcturusPublisher Arcturus Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 538gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 163mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780750336130Author James J KolataFormat HardbackPage Count 154Imprint Institute of Physics PublishingPublisher Institute of Physics PublishingWeight(grams)...

There have been many developments in the field of light pollution over the last few years, and this second edition of 'Light Pollution - Responses and Remedies' will introduce them in detail. Examples include the appearance of anti-light pollution...

Most amateur astronomers, because they live in or near cities, have to carry out their observing from relatively light-polluted sites. It is possible to reduce the effects of a poor location by the use of CCD imaging, but many observers prefer to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780750317542Author Professor Robert WilliamsFormat HardbackPage Count 136Imprint Institute of Physics PublishingPublisher Institute of Physics...

How Astronomy contributed to the educational enlightenment of Glasgow, to its society and to its commerce. The words 'Astronomy' and 'Glasgow' seem an incongruous juxtaposition, and yet the two are closely linked over 500 years of history. This is a tale...

Grating Spectroscopes and How to Use Them is written for amateur astronomers who are just getting into this field of astronomy. Transmission grating spectroscopes look like simple filters and are designed to screw into place on the eyepiece of a...

The invention and development of advanced methods to detect light underlies much of modern technology. This fully updated and restructured third edition is unique amongst the literature, providing a comprehensive, uniform discussion of a broad range of...

"Tracing our contemplation of the cosmos from the big bang to the big crunch" (The New Yorker), Marcelo Gleiser explores the shared quest of ancient prophets and today's astronomers to explain the strange phenomena of our skies-from the apocalypse...

We are connected to distant space and time not only by our imaginations but also through a common cosmic heritage. Emerging now from modern science is a unified scenario of the cosmos, including ourselves as sentient beings, based on the time-honored...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995674127Format PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Charles JoynsonPublisher Charles Joynson