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Springer | 2009 | ISBN: 3540239723 | 636 pages | PDF | 18,4 MB The amount of cosmological data has dramatically increased in the past decades due to an unprecedented development of telescopes, detectors and satellites. Efficiently handling and analysing new data of the order of terabytes per day requires not only computer power to be processed but also the development of sophisticated algorithms and pipelines. ... Ebook description

Publisher: National Academies Press 2009-04-01 | 78 Pages | ISBN: 0309136563 | PDF | 1 MB Since the 1990s, the pace of discovery in the field of solar and space physics has accelerated, largely owing to NASA investments in its Heliophysics Great Observatory fleet of spacecraft. These enable researchers to investigate connections between events on the Sun and in the space environment by combining multiple points of view. ... Ebook description

Publisher: Taylor & Francis; 1 edition (September 1, 2002) | 221 pages | ISBN: 0750308745 | PDF | 2 MB Encourages us to take a more careful look at many familiar phenomena, such as the variations in the duration of twilight through the year and the ability of human vision to misinterpret patterns of lines under certain conditions. Aims to be entertaining, instructive, diverse and unusual. ... Ebook description

Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd | ISBN: 1405312691 | edition 2005 | PDF | 72 pages | 6.78 mb An essential addition to the award-winning Eyewitness series, Eyewitness Mars explores the planet of Mars from its discovery by the ancients, through its representation in popular culture, and what astronomers thought of the planet before the Space Age. Then join the missions of Mariners 4, 6 and 7, which discovered Mars as we know it today, with craters, desert, valleys and volcanoes. ... Ebook description

Blackstone Audiobooks | ISBN: 143320021X | 2007-08 | MP3 | 189 MB I have always been very interested in the way the universe works, particularly the stranger aspects of it (such as black holes). I am not, however, a big fan of reading non-fiction. This book attracted my attention because of its interesting title and I was certainly not disappointed by the book itself. The writing style is very conversational and the author clearly understands that bringing in vocabulary that the average person will not understand is not the way to keep a reader interested. ... Ebook description

Springer | 2009 | ISBN: 3642020879 | 504 pages | PDF | 16,4 MB This beautifully illustrated book describes the birth and evolution of the theory of stellar structure through the vehement controversy between biology (as presented by Darwin) and physics (as presented by Kelvin) about the age of the Earth, which culminated with Rutherford suggesting radioactive dating. Shaviv analyzes critically many proclaimed scientific results, showing how and why they were wrong, and explains why it took decades to find the now accepted scientific answers - where there are such - and why there remains much more to be done before we can say we fully understand what happens up there in the heavens. ... Ebook description

Springer | 2009 | ISBN: 1402092148 | 535 pages | PDF | 36,5 MB This book reviews our current knowledge of Saturn's largest moon Titan featuring the latest results obtained by the Cassini-Huygens mission. A global author team addresses Titan’s origin and evolution, internal structure, surface geology, the atmosphere and ionosphere as well as magnetospheric interactions. The book closes with an outlook beyond the Cassini-Huygens mission. ... Ebook description