The Invisible Universe : The Story of Radio Astronomy
This is the story of radio astronomy, of how radio waves are generated by stars, supernova, quasars, colliding galaxies, ...
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The Invisible Universe: Dark Matter and Dark Energy
The last two chapters of the book present Eshelby's sophisticated theory in a didactically accessible way, knowledge of ...
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The Many Scales in the Universe
The book gathers the invited talks to the XIII JENAM conference, organized this time by the European Astronomical Society ...
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The Music of the Big Bang : The Cosmic Microwave Background and the New Cosmology
Most cosmological information is encoded in the cosmic background radiation by acoustic oscillations in the dense plasma ...
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The New Worlds : Extrasolar Planets
Exoplanet, extrasolar planet, exoEarth, exojupiter: neologisms still absent from many dictionaries. These terms are, however, ...
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The Observers Year
There are 365 nights in every year (366 in a leap year!) and from an amateur astronomer’s point of view, no two are alike.And ...
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The Physical Basis of The Direction of Time
This thoroughly revised 5th edition of Zeh's classic text investigates irreversible phenomena and their foundation in classical, ...
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The Physics of the Early Universe
The Physics of the Early Universe is an edited and expanded version of the lectures given at a recent summer school of the ...
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The Road to Galaxy Formation
The book discusses the beginnings of the process from cosmological observations and calculations, considers the broad features ...
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The Role of Mathematics in Physical Sciences
Even though mathematics and physics have been related for centuries and this relation appears to be unproblematic, there ...
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The Sky at Einsteins Feet
Specifically traces the impact of Einstein's ideas on astronomy, including the way we interpret observations of stars and ...
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The Universe Before the Big Bang : Cosmology and String Theory
Terms such as "expanding Universe", "big bang", and "initial singularity", are nowadays part of our common language. ...
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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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The Universe of Fluctuations
Proposes solutions to the impasse and crisis facing fundamental physics and cosmology. This work describes a cosmological ...
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The Universe of General Relativity
Topics discussed include the prehistory of special relativity, early attempts at a relativistic theory of gravitation, the ...
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White Dwarfs: Cosmological and Galactic Probes
The emphasis on white dwarf stars and cosmology arises from the most recent advances in cosmological and galactic structure ...
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