Astronomy
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Centauri Dreams: Imagining and Planning Interstellar ExplorationThe plan to send an unmanned craft on a 40-year journey to Alpha Centauri is, some think, the essence of bold science reaching out to the unknown. Gilster shows why scientists who will barely live to see the launch, and not long enough to...
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The Copernicus Complex: Our Cosmic Significance in a Universe of Planets and ProbabilitiesLonglisted for the 2015 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardShort-listed for Physics World's Book of the YearThe Sunday Times (UK) Best Science Book of 2014A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Science Book of Fall 2014An NBC News Top Science and Tech Book of 2014A Politics...
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What If the Earth Had Two Moons?: And Nine Other Thought-Provoking Speculations on the Solar SystemWhat if? questions have always stimulated people to think in new ways. What if the Earth Had Two Moons leads us on a fascinating 10 world journey exploring what the Earth would be like if conditions in the universe were slightly different. The answer:...
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Smart Kids: SpaceExploring the planets of our solar system and much more, Smart Kids Space is an ideal first guide to the mysteries of our incredible universe. Perfect for helping children in elementary or first grade with school projects, it is packed with amazing photographs and...
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Once Before Time: A Whole Story of the UniverseIn his introduction to a revolutionary theory of the cosmos, Martin Bojowald shows how the big bang theory may give way to the big bounce theory, which describes our universe as an eternal series of expansions and contractions, with no beginning and no end....
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The Day We Found the UniverseThe riveting and mesmerizing story behind a watershed period in human history, the discovery of the startling size and true nature of our universe. On New Years Day in 1925, a young Edwin Hubble released his finding that our Universe was far bigger, eventually...
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Realm of the NebulaeIn less than a century, the accepted picture of the universe transformed from a stagnant place, composed entirely of our own Milky Way galaxy, to a realm inhabited by billions of individual galaxies, hurtling away from one another. We must thank, in paAuthor: Edwin...
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Celestial Calculations: A Gentle Introduction to Computational AstronomyHow to predict and calculate the positions of stars, planets, the sun, the moon, and satellites using a personal computer and high school mathematics.Our knowledge of the universe is expanding rapidly, as space probes launched decades ago begin to send information back to earth....
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The Dialogues: Conversations about the Nature of the UniverseA series of conversations about science in graphic form, on subjects that range from the science of cooking to the multiverse.Physicist Clifford Johnson thinks that we should have more conversations about science. Science should be on our daily conversation menu, along with topics like...
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Finding Our Place in the Universe: How We Discovered Laniakea - The Milky Way's HomeHow a team of researchers, led by the author, discovered our home galaxy's location in the universe.You are here: on Earth, which is part of the solar system, which is in the Milky Way galaxy, which itself is within the extragalactic supercluster Laniakea. And...
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Kings Dethroned***Completely revised version of the original 1922 edition*** "The Chaldeans used to predict the eclipses three thousand years ago; with a degree of accuracy that is only surpassed by seconds in these days because we have wonderful clocks which they had not. Yet they...
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Flare StarFollowing the hypothesis proffered in God Star, the prequel to this work, Flare Star sets out to show that Earth's last Ice Age came suddenly to an end due to the cosmic catastrophe that was caused by the proto-Saturnian system's entry into the present...
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Primordial StarAstrophysicists have noted various problems with the formation of planets out of circumstellar disks, but mainstream scientists continue to promulgate such creations as if the problems do not exist. The derivation of terrestrial life required a much greater amount of ultraviolet radiation than the...
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Space, Time, and Gravity: The Theory of the Big Bang and Black HolesWriting for the general reader or student, Wald has completely revised and updated this highly regarded work to include recent developments in black hole physics and cosmology. Nature called the first edition a very readable and accurate account of modern relativity physics for the...
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Black Holes and Relativistic StarsA comprehensive summary of progress made during the past decade on the theory of black holes and relativistic stars, this collection includes discussion of structure and oscillations of relativistic stars, the use of gravitational radiation detectors, observational evidence for black holes, cosmic censorship, numerical...
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Venus Revealed: A New Look Below the Clouds of Our Mysterious Twin PlanetUntil very recently, all we really knew about Venus, our nearest planetary neighbor, was that it was roughly the same size and mass as the earth and was surrounded by a thick atmosphere. Then, in 1989, American scientists launched Magellan--the spacecraft that would revolutionize...
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Conjuring the Universe: The Origins of the Laws of NatureThe marvellous complexity of the Universe emerges from several deep laws and a handful of fundamental constants that fix its shape, scale, and destiny. There is a deep structure to the world which at the same time is simple, elegant, and beautiful. Where did...
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Galileo: A Very Short IntroductionIn a startling reinterpretation of Galileo's trial, Stillman Drake advances the hypothesis that Galileo's prosecution and condemnation by the Inquisition was caused not by his defiance of the Church but by the hostility of contemporary philosophers. Galileo's own beautifully lucid arguments are used in...
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The Anthropic Cosmological PrincipleEver since Copernicus, scientists have continually adjusted their view of human nature, moving it further and further from its ancient position at the center of Creation. But in recent years, a startling new concept has evolved that places it more firmly than ever in...
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Eclipses: What Everyone Needs to KnowrHave you ever seen a total solar eclipse? If the question caused you to search your memory, the correct answer would have been no. A common response is: Yes--I saw one, it was about 90% partial eclipse where I lived. A 90% partial eclipse...
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