Solar Sails :A Novel Approach To Interplanetary Travel
This book describes solar sails, how they work and what they will be used for in the exploration of space in an easily readable ...
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Solar-Type Activity in Main-Sequence Stars
Solar-type activity over the whole range of the electromagnetic spectrum is a phenomenon inherent in the majority of low- ...
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Spectroscopy: The Key to the Stars
This book assumes only a basic knowledge of physics but looks in detail at many topics, including energy levels in atoms, ...
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Star Clusters and How to Observe Them
Part one of this detailed book provides a comprehensive review of star clusters – including open, globular, extragalactic, ...
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Starbursts
Starbursts are important features of early galaxy evolution. Many of the distant, high-redshift galaxies we are able to detect ...
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Supernovae and How to Observe Them
Supernovae mark the deaths of massive stars or of white dwarfs in binary systems. Even when they occur in galaxies millions ...
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The Cambridge N-Body Lectures
Published under the auspices of the Royal Astronomical Society, this volume contains a set of extensive school tested lectures, ...
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The Composition of Matter
This volume consists of papers developed from a joint ACE/ISSI symposium on the "Composition of Matter" honoring the occasion ...
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The Electromagnetic Spectrum of Neutron Stars
This book is devoted to the selected lectures presented in the 6th NATO-ASI series entitled "The Electromagnetic Spectrum ...
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The Heliosphere through the Solar Activity Cycle
This book presents the evolution of the heliosphere through an entire solar activity cycle. The last solar cycle (cycle 23) ...
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The Interstellar Medium
Describing interstellar matter in our galaxy in all of its various forms, this book also considers the physical and chemical ...
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The Multinational History of Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory
Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory is quite an interesting place for historians: several changes of nationality between ...
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The Search for Life Continued : Planets Around Other Stars
Barrie Jones addresses the question "are we alone?", which is one of the most frequently asked questions by scientists ...
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The Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE)
This book describes the state-of-the art instruments for measuring the solar irradiance from soft x-ray to the near infrared ...
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The Universe in X-Rays
In the last 45 years, X-ray astronomy has become an integral part of modern astrophysics and cosmology. There is a wide range ...
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Topics in Gravitational Dynamics
This set of lectures collects surveys of open problems in celestial dynamics and dynamical astronomy applied to solar, extra-solar ...
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Zdenek Kopals Binary Star Legacy
Professor Kopal, who devoted 60 years of his scientific life to the exploration of close binary systems, initiated a breakthrough ...
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