Astronomy

The world as it is viewed from modern physics and cosmology has many strange and unexpected features. Often these are in stark contrast with our everyday experience or our preconceptions, such as the concept of space and time as finite and changeable...

Many books cover permanent astronomical objects, but few consider transient, out-of-the-ordinary astronomical phenomena. This book covers a wide range of topics, from the partly-predictable to the totally unpredictable. At one end: of the scale, it gives...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781775115038Author Ben TrippFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Impossibility of Extraterrestrial LifePublisher Impossibility of Extraterrestrial...

Written in an accessible style, this unique book aims at describing the Nobel prize winning works in astronomy to readers who only have a background of high school physics. It gives a glimpse of the work done by those prize-winning astronomers at the...

This book is the first to provide a comprehensive, readily understandable report on the European Space Agency's Gaia mission that will meet the needs of a general audience. It takes the reader on an exciting journey of discovery, explaining how such a...

This book introduces the Martian simulations of The Mars Society, the first one installed on Devon Island, an uninhabited island in the Canadian Arctic, well within the polar circle, and the second in the desert of Utah, several hundreds of kilometers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641372404Author Rob KasperFormat PaperbackPage Count 386Imprint New Degree PressPublisher New Degree PressWeight(grams) 140g

No modern astronomer made a more profound contribution to our understanding of the cosmos than did Edwin Hubble, who first conclusively demonstrated that the universe is expanding. Basing his theory on the observation of the change in distanct galaxies,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781631353536Author Thomas Wm HamiltonFormat PaperbackImprint Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency, LLCPublisher Strategic Book Publishing &...

Origins of Life: A Cosmic Perspective presents an overview of the concepts, methods, and theories of astrobiology and origins of life research while presenting a summary of the latest findings. The book provides insight into the environments and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789390294343Author George Biddell AiryFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams) 449g

In the last thirty years humans have probed the Universe, explored the Solar System and visited with spacecraft some of the most incredible places humans have ever laid eyes upon. We have expanded our knowledge slowly and surely, but still now only see a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786205527177Author Mude Murali NaikFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint LAP Lambert Academic PublishingPublisher LAP Lambert Academic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941181461Author Phd Rebecca W KellerFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Gravitas Publications, Inc.Publisher Gravitas Publications, Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354200045Author David Peck ToddFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams) 156g

I have spent many wonderful nights observing at a variety of places around the world, but many of my fondest memories come from those made at the Custer Observatory in Southold on Long Island, where I grew up. I was only perhaps a dozen years old when I...

The book is divided into two parts. In the first, the reader is taken on an ideal 'world tour' of many wonderful and enigmatic places in almost every continent, in search of traces of astronomical knowledge and lore of the sky. In the second part, Giulio...

In six short years, Galileo Galilei went from being a somewhat obscure mathematics professor running a student boarding house in Padua to a star in the court of Florence to the recipient of dangerous attention from the Inquisition for his support of...

This book analyses the magnificent imperial necropolises of ancient China from the perspective of Archaeoastronomy, a science which takes into account the landscape in which ancient monuments are placed, focusing especially but not exclusively on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681526188Author Rachel GrackFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Amicus InkPublisher Amicus Ink

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789359320243Author Walter W BryantFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Double 9 BooksPublisher Double 9 BooksWeight(grams) 73g

Information collected by recent space probes sent to explore the Moon by the USA, the European Space Agency, Japan, China and India has changed our knowledge and understanding of the Moon, particularly its geology, since the Apollo missions. This book...

The bubbles were swirling all around me, massaging my body. As I luxuriated in this fantastic bath, I gasped realizing that those bubbles carried with them miniature galaxies bringing the entire Cosmos into my bathtub... Alfie is back. And so are George...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780750351454Author Imad PashaFormat HardbackImprint Institute of Physics PublishingPublisher Institute of Physics Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944986292Author Aaron LinsdauFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Sastrugi PressPublisher Sastrugi PressWeight(grams) 104g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780750349048Author Dara NormanFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Institute of Physics PublishingPublisher Institute of Physics Publishing

In December 2014, Hayabusa2 started its journey to 162173 Ryugu, a C-type asteroid likely to be primordial, thereby making this a voyage in both space and time. Hayabusa2 will begin its observations upon arrival at Ryugu in 2018. It will survey the...

Since comet Shoemaker-Levy collided with the planet Jupiter with stupendous force in 1994 there has been an upsurge of amateur interest in comets. Most comets are first discovered by amateur astronomers because there are so many amateurs looking for...

The Mars Curiosity Rover is the most sophisticated mobile laboratory ever deployed on a planet. For over seven years, scores of investigators have planned its daily route and activities, poring over the overwhelming images and data and revising our...

For many thousands of years, human beings have been asking themselves whether they are more frightened of being alone in the universe or of the thought that there is someone else out there. Over the past few decades, however, we have moved from...

This is the story of the astronomer Milton La Salle Humason, whose career was integral to developing our understanding of stellar and universal evolution and who helped to build the analytical basis for the work of such notable astronomers and...

The year is 2130. The first-ever expedition is sent to Mercury to search for the cause of an unknown source of electromagnetic radiation that can destroy space ships passing by the planet. Thought to be inhospitable and lifeless, the surface of Mercury...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941983188Author Fred EspenakFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Astropixels PublishingPublisher Astropixels PublishingWeight(grams) 216g

Over the last 15 years or so there has been a huge increase in the popularity of astrophotography with the advent of digital SLR cameras and CCD imagers. These have enabled astronomers to take many images and, indeed, check images as they scan the skies...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439109014Author Marc KaufmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 263gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

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...

It has been nearly 100 years since the Apollo moon landings, when Jack and Vladimir, two astronauts on a mission to Venus, discover a mysterious void related to indigenous life on the planet. Subsequently more voids are detected on Earth, Mars, Titan,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783752855241Author Klaus PiontzikFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Books on DemandPublisher Books on DemandWeight(grams) 148g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781545718803Author Raghunath TiruvaipatiFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint Educreation PublishingPublisher Educreation PublishingWeight(grams) 152g

This non-technical biography of Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn (1851-1922) presents to the general reader the scientific life of the astronomer who pioneered the studies of the structure of the Milky Way Galaxy. In telling Kapteyn’s story the author weaves in...