Astronomy, space and time Books

One of the most exciting predictions of Einstein's theory of gravitationisthat there may exist 'black holes': putative objects whose gravitational fields are so strong that no physical bodies and signals can break free of their...

M. M. Shapiro and J. P. Wefel AN OVERVIEW OF COSMIC RAY RESEARCH: COMPOSITION, ACCELERATION AND PROPAGATION J. P. Wefel PROPAGATION AND TRANSFOR'1ATIONS OF cosme RAYS: 41 FROM SOURCES TO EARTH R. Silberberg, C. H. Tsao, J. R...

Prominences are amazing objects of great beauty whose formation, basic structure and eruption represent one of the basic unsolved problems in Solar Physics. It is now 14 years since the last book on prominences appeared...

I.A.U. Symposium No. 133, "Mapping the Sky: Past Heritage and Future Directions" was held at Paris on 1-5 June, 1987. The rationale for this meeting is to combine historical and modern aspects of mapping the sky; historical in...

Solar and geomagnetic variability are of considerable interest for scientists of many different persuasions and indeed one has the distinct impression that for the sun at least, there is direct relevance for mankind in general...

''An atteJDpt has been made to cOll1PlJte the numbers of certain JI10lecules in interstellar space , . . . . A search for the bands of CH, O/{, DR, en and C2 would appear to be proIDising" P Swings and L Rosenfeld Astrophysical...

Proceedings of the 99th Colloquium of the International Astronomical Union, held in Balaton, Hungary, June 22-27, 1987

Proceedings of the 129th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union, held in Cambridge, MA, USA, May 10-15, 1987

th Coinciding with the 300 anniversary of the publication of Newton's Principia The International Astronomical Union organized the colloquium No. 96 "The Few Body Problem" in Turku, Finland, June 14.-19.1987. It provided an...

Proceedings of the 128th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union, held in Coolfont, West Virginia, USA, October 20-24, 1986.

These are the Proceedings of the Second CESRA Workshop on Particle Acceleration and Trapping in Solar Flares. The Workshop was held on June 23-26,1986, at the city hall of Aubigny-sur-Nere (France), near Bourges and near the Nan

This book is the result of a meeting held in August, 1986 in Irsee, West Germany. As the title suggests, the aim of the meeting was to discuss physical processes in interstellar clouds, determine the current status, aims and...

4. Census of the Catalogue The catalogue contains information on 277 objects. 137 (50%) of them are stars whose outburst spectra or unambiguous mInImUm characteristics classify them as novae beyond doubt. 123 of them could be...

The objective of this meeting was to bring together collea­ gues from different branches of observational astronomy and theoretical astrophysics to discuss and analyse the rapid progress in our knowledge and understanding of...

As a star, the sun is continuously emitting an enormous amount of energy 33 into space, up to as much as 3. 9 X 10 erg/ s. This energy emission consists of three modes. Almost all the energy is emitted in the form of the...

IAU Symposium No. 121 was hosted by the Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory in Soviet Armenia, almost 30 years after Ambartsumian's pioneering ideas about galaxy activity were first published and almost exactly 20 years after...

The idea for an international symposium on the interstellar medium was first discussed at the University of Wyoming during the summer of 1984. It was obvious that the outstanding natural beauty of the Teton mountain range in...

Over the last decade we have witnessed a rapid change in our understanding of the late stages of stellar evolution. A major stimulus to this has been the synthesis of observational data from different wavebands of the ...

Astrophysik für AnfängerÜberarbeitete und erweiterte Neuauflage von Juli 2022Dieses Buch ist eine Bibel für jeden, der sich mit der spannenden Welt der Astrophysik anfreunden möchte. Von unserem Sonnensystem bis in die geheimnisvollen unendlichen Weiten...

"Ich bin das Alpha und das Omega, der Erste und der Letzte, der Anfang und das Ende." Der Omegapunkt wird in 2 Sci-Fi-Kurzgeschichten erklärt. Außerdem gibt es Begriffserklärungen (Liebe, Tod...), und was andere Menschen darüber denken.

Der Geschichtsanalytiker Mario Arndt ("Die wohlstrukturierte Geschichte") präsentiert eine weitere sensationelle Entdeckung: Die Zeitrechnungen der Antike wurden alle zum selben Zeitpunkt erfunden und sind sorgfältig aufeinander abgestimmt. Dabei spielt...

ACHTUNG! Dies ist ein Tatsachenbericht mit echten Fotos! Die Sichtung von UFOs fand in Deutschland am Edersee in Asel-Süd statt. 17.10.2019ATTENTION! This is a fact report with real photos! The sighting of UFOs took place in Germany at the Edersee in...

Europas Seewege am SternhimmelDr. Kai Helge Wirth ist sich nach 35 Jahren Forschung sicher: Isaac Newton hatte recht: Die Sternbilder wurden, wie griechische Autoren uns berichten von den Argonauten an den Himmel projiziert, um den Seefahrern die...

A clear and accessible introduction to quantum mechanical methods used to calculate properties of atoms exposed to strong magnetic fields in both laboratory and stellar environments, with the emphasis on hydrogen and helium and...

In order to bring the scientific events of the meetings of the Astronomische Gesellschaft (AG) to the attention of the worldwide astronomical community, an annual publication, Reviews in Modern Astronomy, was established. It is...

Since the previous Symposium, several exciting new developments and advances have occurred in the field of frequency standards and metrology. These include the first results on the long-tenn stability of a millisecond Pulsar,...

The imaging process in stellar interferometers is explained starting from first principles on wave propagation and diffraction. Wave propagation through turbulence is described in detail using Kolmogorov statistics. The impact of turbulence on the...

Laboratory Astrophysics and Scaling.- Laboratory Studies of Astrophysical Jets.- Output from MHD Models.- Coronal Heating.- Flows in Molecular Media.- The Ionisation and Excitation State of Stellar Outflows.- Deriving Physical Diagnostics from...

Astronomy is a scienti?c discipline that has developed a rapid and impressive growth in Spain. Thirty years ago, Spain occupied a purely anecdotal presence in the international context, but today it occupies the eighth position in the world in...

In recent years there have been great advances in the fields of laboratory and astronomical spectroscopy. These have been equally matched by large-scale computations using state-of-the-art theoretical methods. The accurate atomic opacities that are...

Continuum Formulation.- Feynman Path Integral Formulation.- Gravity in 2+? Dimensions.- Hamiltonian and Wheeler-DeWitt Equation.- Semiclassical Gravity.- Lattice Regularized Quantum Gravity.- Analytical Lattice Expansion Methods.- Numerical Studies.-...

The 2007 ESO Instrument Calibration workshop brought together more than 120 participants with the objective to a) foster the sharing of information, experience and techniques between observers, instrument developers and...

Planetary Systems.- Detection Methods.- Extrasolar Planets, 12 Years After the First Discovery.- What we Learn from the Solar System.- Stellar Formation and Protoplanetary Disks.- The Dynamics of Planetary Systems.- Structure and Evolution of an...

This volume contains the proceedings of possibly the last conference ever on integral-field spectroscopy. The contributors, noted authorities in the field, focus on the scientific questions that can be answered with...

This volume documents recent developments that have advanced our understanding of the heating and cooling mechanisms in galaxies and galaxy clusters. Chapters detail results from multi-wavelength observations and advances in...

This book contains comprehensive reviews of modern topics in nuclear physics, particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology. Special emphasis is placed on the role of several symmetries in physics at intermediate and high...

Three eminent scientists, each well known for the clarity of their writing, present for students and researchers what is known about the internal structure, origin and evolution of White Dwarfs, Neutron Stars and Black Holes,...

Half a century ago, S. Chandrasekhar wrote these words in the preface to his 1 celebrated and successful book: In this monograph an attempt has been made to present the theory of stellar dy­ namics as a branch of classical...

Written by three celebrated astronomers renowned for their excellence in both research and teaching, the central theme is approached in three complementary ways: the smooth evolution of the universe from the Big Bang to the...

Observational and Theoretical Issues of Interacting Binaries was the topic of the 22nd Advanced Course of the Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy. It was the first time that binary systems were the center of attention...

Planets.- Stars, Galaxies, and the Origin of Chemical Elements.- Planet Formation.- The Earth.- The Search for Extrasolar Planets.- Planets Suitable for Life.- Life.- Life and its Origin on Earth.- Evolution.- The Search for Extraterrestrial Life.-...