Astrophysics Books

The Natural History of the Azores or Western Islands is a book written by Frederick Du Cane Godman in 1870. The book is a comprehensive study of the flora and fauna of the Azores, a group of nine volcanic islands located in the North Atlantic Ocean...

Muchos están ocupados en los misterios del espacio, especialmente en detectar seres extraterrestres, llegó el momento de una revelación que nadie podrá negar su veracidad, si piensa que puede inténtelo

On Six Species Of Koenenia: With Remarks On The Order Palpigradi is a scientific book written by Hans Jacob Hansen in 1901. The book focuses on the study of six different species of Koenenia, a type of arachnid, and provides detailed descriptions of...

Embark on a groundbreaking exploration into the cosmos with "Space, Gravity, and Dark Energy". This thought-provoking book challenges established notions of gravity as we journey from Newton and Einstein's perspectives into a new frontier of...

Before reading the content in this book which hypothesizes that interest rates can be set by observing Mars, while presuming that the movements of the planet Mars around the sun has influence on investor behavior, it is important to take into account a...

Les sujets suivants sont présentés dans ce livre :description du système solaireclassification et évolution des étoilesprocessus nucléaires interstellairesles galaxies et leur évolution d'un point de vue...

This compendium includes the following 5 complete books featuring renowned physicists Freeman Dyson, Jenny Nelson, Claudia de Rham, Lee Smolin and Jill Tarter providing fully accessible insights into cutting-edge academic research while revealing the...

Dawn is the first mission to orbit a main belt asteroid and the first scientific mission to use ion propulsion. Major objectives of this mission include mapping of the surfaces of 4 Vesta and 1 Ceres, determining its topography from stereo...

This Special Issue covers a wide range of topics from fundamental studies to applications of ionized gases. It is dedicated to four topics of interest: 1. ATOMIC COLLISION PROCESSES (electron and photon interactions with atomic particles, heavy particle...

Cosmology is the study of the origin, size, and evolution of the entire universe. Every culture has developed a cosmology, whether it be based on religious, philosophical, or scientific principles. In this book, the evolution of the scientific...

The book is an introduction to the subject of fluid mechanics, essential for students and researchers in many branches of science. It illustrates its fundamental principles with a variety of examples drawn mainly from astrophysics and geophysics as well...

This is an in-depth look at baryon number violation in the Standard Model including the necessary background in finite temperature field theory, plasma dynamics and how to calculate the out of equilibrium evolution of particle number densities throughout...

Structure and Evolution of Single Stars: An introduction is intended for upper-level undergraduates and beginning graduates with a background in physics. Following a brief overview of the background observational material, the basic equations describing...

The study of dark matter, in both astrophysics and particle physics, has emerged as one of the most active and exciting topics of research in recent years. This book reviews the history behind the discovery of missing mass (or unseen mass) in the...

How does it happen that billions of stars can cooperate to produce the beautiful spirals that characterize so many galaxies, including ours? This book reviews the history behind the discovery of spiral galaxies and the problems faced when trying to...

Introduction to the Physics of the Cryosphere is intended for graduates with a numerical sciences background, particularly those who are heading towards postgraduate study or are generally interested in environmental physics. Conservation equations...

The diverse planetary environments in the solar system react in somewhat different ways to the encompassing influence of the Sun. These different interactions define the electrostatic phenomena that take place on and near planetary surfaces. The desire...

Space curves around you, time slows down, particles are waves, a cat is both alive and dead. What's going on? It all starts to make sense when we untangle the universe with this clear and enlightening book. Day-dreamers and deep-thinkers, these are the...

Have you ever seen a comet? It is a marvelous experience, one that all humans can share, that spawns a deep yearning to understand the spectacle.Have you ever wondered what comets are and why astronomers spend so much time studying them? Now, a comet...

Order from chaos is simultaneously a mantra of physics and a reality in biology. Physicist Norman Packard suggested that life developed and thrives at the edge of chaos. Questions remain, however, as to how much practical knowledge of biology can be...

This illustrated monograph explores the fundamentals, current practice, and theoretical perspectives of modern plasma astrophysics. The opening part covers basic principles and practical tools for understanding and working with...

This well-illustrated monograph is devoted to classic fundamentals, current practice, and perspectives of modern plasma astrophysics. The level of the book is designed mainly for professional researchers in astrophysics. The...

This book provides an understanding of the physics at work in sunspots and solar coronal loops, and offers a new approach to Magneto-Fluid-Dynamics (or Magneto-Hydro-Dynamics).The book stresses the use of electric currents in...

Foreword.- Acknowledgements.- IBEX-Interstellar Boundary Explorer.- The IBEX Flight Segment.- The Interstellar Boundary Explorer High Energy (IBEX-Hi) Neutral Atom Imager.- The IBEX Background Monitor.- The IBEX-Lo Sensor.- Diagnosing the Neutral...

""Thoughts On Speculative Cosmology And The Principles Of Art"" is a book written by William Gawin Herdman in the year 1870. The book is a collection of essays that explore the relationship between speculative cosmology and the principles of art. Herdman...

Stories of robots, aliens, and surprising futures just around the corner. Enjoy this anthology of scifi stories from scientist Charlie Marino.Mutant Escape - A few years from now, the next evolutionary step in humans are discovered to be appearing...

Where did it all start? How does it all work? What is my place in this Universe?Presenting to you The Universe, But This Time You Understand It.From Stars to Galaxies, Comets to Planets, the Big Bang to Black holes, this book will take you on a witty and...

The events occurred in the last years have shown how the threat related to both intentional and natural disasters could bring the civil and the military worlds closer in the conceivement and deploypment of countermeasures as well as in the identification...

Atmospheric pressure plasma discharges have grown rapidly in importance in recent decades, due to the ease in handling and operation, plus their eco-friendly applications, for agriculture, food, medicine, materials and even the automotive and aerospace...

Of Clocks and Time takes readers on a five-stop journey through the physics and technology (and occasional bits of applications and history) of timekeeping. On the way, conceptual vistas and qualitative images abound, but since mathematics is spoken...

Egresado de la Universidad Michoacana como pasante en Ciencias Fisico-Matemáticas.Algo que marcó mi vida fue la impartición de la cátedra Fundamentos de la Ciencia en la Facultad de Filosofía en la misma Universidad, lo que me permitió la visualización...

This book is different from all other modern cosmology books in several ways. It introduces a cosmologic universe, which is orderly, logical, and systematic. It teaches and explains by illustrating how a variety of cosmic mysteries have been solved. It...

Anschaulich und interessant vermittelt dieses Werk, das sowohl zur Aneignung von Wissen als auch zum Nachschlagen der wichtigsten Zusammenhänge dient, die großen Themen der Physik für Studierende aller medizinischer Fachrichtungen. Alle Kapitel bauen...

The book ""Five-Year Catalogue Of 258 Fundamental Stars: Deduced From Observations Extending From 1887 To 1891, Made At The Royal Observatory, Greenwich"" is written by William Henry Mahoney Christie and was published in 1893. The book presents a...

Our Universe is amazing. This is its story, told in simple language.The story tells how the Universe came to be what it is today. It starts with the Big Bang and describes how stars, black holes, and our solar system developed. It explores the evolution...

This book will help to uncover the astonishing and mind-blowing facts about the universe. And will give you a better understanding of particles which are believed to be the basis of large scale structure that formed much later. Different stages of the...

Dr. Louis Komzsik is an engineer and mathematician, a graduate of the Technical University and the Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences, both in Budapest Hungary. He immigrated to the US in 1981 and since then worked as engineer in the industry and...

In this book we will look at what planetary nebulae are, where they come from and where they go. We will discuss what mechanisms cause these beautiful markers of stellar demise as well as what causes them to form their variety of shapes. How we measure...

Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, published in 1915, made a remarkable prediction: gravitational radiation.Just like light (electromagnetic radiation), gravity could travel through space as a wave and affect any objects it encounters by...

The invention of the semiconductor laser along with silica glass fiber has enabled an incredible revolution in global communication infrastructure of direct benefit to all. Development of devices and system concepts that exploit the same fundamental...

This book is the chronological histories and derivations of many of the important numbers involved in science.

This book aims to present the topic of nonlinear and chaotic dynamics in a manner that is useful and beneficial to students and young researchers from various domains such as physics, mathematics, biology, or even medicine.A very important aspect of that...