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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) ...

The Initial Mass Function 50 Years Later

The Book contains the proceedings of a Conference intended to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the introduction of the IMF ...

The MESSENGER Mission to Mercury

The articles in this book, written by the experts in each area of the MESSENGER mission, describe the mission, spacecraft, ...

The Moon

The book stresses that the envisioned "Planet Moon Project" will link the technological and cultural expertise of humanity ...

The Moon that Wasn’t : The Saga of Venus’ Spurious Satellite

This book details the history of one of astronomy’s many spurious objects, the satellite of Venus. First spotted in 1645, ...

The New Worlds : Extrasolar Planets

Exoplanet, extrasolar planet, exoEarth, exojupiter: neologisms still absent from many dictionaries. These terms are, however, ...

The Outer Planets and their Moons

This volume gives an integrated summary of the science related to the four giant planets in our solar system. It is the result ...

The Power of Optical/IR Interferometry: Recent Scientific Results and 2nd Generation Instrumentation : Proceedings of the ESO Workshop held in Garching, Germany, 4-8 April 2005

Long-baseline interferometry has been traditionally regarded as a very technical method with a limited number of applications. ...

The Sky is Your Laboratory

For the experienced amateur astronomer who is wondering if there is something useful, valuable, and permanent that can be ...

The Sun : A User's Manual

The Sun is an account of the many ways in which our nearest star affects our planet, how its influence has changed over the ...

The Sun, Solar Analogs and the Climate

This book presents the lectures notes of the 34th Saas-Fee Advanced Course "The Sun, Solar Analogs and the Climate" given ...

Topics in Gravitational Dynamics

This set of lectures collects surveys of open problems in celestial dynamics and dynamical astronomy applied to solar, extra-solar ...

Towards a Natural Social Contract Transformative Social-Ecological Innovation for a Sustainable, Healthy and Just Society

This book states that the endemic societal faultlines of our times are deeply intertwined and that they confront us with ...

Trans-Neptunian Objects and Comets

In the last two decades of the 20th century, we obtained our first detailed look at a cometary nucleus and detected objects ...

Ultraviolet Radiation in the Solar System

The Sun is our main source of UV radiation and its description occupies the first two chapters of the book. The Earth is ...

Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto and How to Observe Them

This book tells the story of two giants and a dwarf. The giants, Uranus and Neptune, are mostly huge balls of gas, and they ...

Venus and Mercury, and How to Observe Them

Mercury and Venus - known as the "inferior planets" because they are closer to the Sun than the Earth is - have always ...

Water and the Search for Life on Mars

This highly absorbing book relates how NASA and ESA have sought evidence of life on Mars. ‘Follow the water’ with noted ...

Wrong for the Right Reasons

The rapidity with which knowledge changes makes much of past science obsolete, and often just wrong, from the present's ...

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