The Night Sky Companion is far more than just an observing guide. It is a year’s journey into the science …
As this remarkable book shows, we live in a universe beset with chaos. Highly acclaimed popular science writer Barry Parker …
Now in paperback: the book in which the author of the national bestseller The Physics of Star Trek traces the …
Building on a long tradition of effective pedagogy and comprehensive coverage, The Cosmic Perspective, Seventh Edition provides a thoroughly engaging …
Discover the wonders of the night sky with this bestselling astronomy guideFor a generation, Astronomy: A Self-Teaching Guide has introduced …
This book details the lives of two married geniuses, Aden and Marjorie Meinel, who helped to pioneer modern optics and …
For most of human history, we have had a close relationship with the stars. Once they shaped our religious beliefs, …
After three decades of intense research in X-ray and gamma-ray astronomy, the time was ripe to summarize basic knowledge on …
With the discovery in 1995 of the first planet orbiting another star, we now realize that planets are not unique …
Planetary atmospheres are complex and evolving entities, as mankind is rapidly coming to realise whilst attempting to understand, forecast and …
Astronomical methods applied to chronology. Ptolemy`s Almagest. Tycho Brahe. Copernicus. The Egyptian zodiacs. Dr. Prof Anatoly Fomenko and team dissect …
With a lively yet rigorous and quantitative approach, Frederick R. Chromey introduces the fundamental topics in optical observational astronomy for …
Astronomy is one of the very few sciences where amateurs can make significant contributions and where amateur contributions are valued …
For the experienced amateur astronomer who is wondering if there is something useful, valuable, and permanent that can be done …
Galaxies are known as the building blocks of the universe, but arriving at this understanding has been a thousand-year odyssey. …
This concise, readable book is written for the newcomer to astronomical spectroscopy and assumes no previous specialist knowledge on the …
Interstellar carbon monoxide (CO) was first detected in 1970 with the 36 foot diameter telescope of the National Radio Astronomy …
First published in 1986, this is the story of the analysis of starlight by astronomical spectroscopy. Beginning with Joseph Fraunhofer's …
this is among the two or three most stimulating and encouraging books that one could give to an aspiring young …
This classic star atlas is ideal for both beginning astronomers and more experienced observers worldwide. The clear, full-color maps show …
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Over the past decade, astronomers, planetary scientists, and cosmologists have answered - or are closing in on the answers to …
This is the most detailed guide to observing galaxies, clusters and nebulae available in a single volume. The objects included …
Studies of stellar formation in galaxies have a profound impact on our understanding of the present and the early universe. …
The formation of galaxies is one of the greatest puzzles in astronomy, the solution is shrouded in the depths of …
IMHO this book is much better than it is described by earlier reviewers. It is a compilation of articles and …
Variable stars are those that change brightness. They come in many varieties, but each one provides important information about the …
Offering an engaging and complete story of the hunt for new worlds, this volume fully details the detection and exploration …
Fully updated and expanded, this new edition presents a cutting-edge summary of planetary rings, including results from Cassinis Saturn System, …
Chasing Hubble's Shadows is an account of the continuing efforts of astronomers to probe the outermost limits of the observable …
I noticed that this book, which was published in 2004, had not yet received even one customer review. I read …
