The Book contains the proceedings of a Conference intended to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the introduction of the IMF ...
Continue readingThe last two chapters of the book present Eshelby's sophisticated theory in a didactically accessible way, knowledge of ...
Continue readingThe book gathers the invited talks to the XIII JENAM conference, organized this time by the European Astronomical Society ...
Continue readingThis book details the history of one of astronomy’s many spurious objects, the satellite of Venus. First spotted in 1645, ...
Continue readingThis book provides a theoretical and observational overview of the state of the art of gamma-ray astrophysics, and their ...
Continue readingMost cosmological information is encoded in the cosmic background radiation by acoustic oscillations in the dense plasma ...
Continue readingLong-baseline interferometry has been traditionally regarded as a very technical method with a limited number of applications. ...
Continue readingThe present volume is a collection of reviews, essays and personal reminiscences on Occhialini's scientific life and work. ...
Continue readingThis successor edition picks up the story where the first edition left off in 1997, and runs through to Mir’s de-orbiting ...
Continue readingThe Sun is an account of the many ways in which our nearest star affects our planet, how its influence has changed over the ...
Continue readingTerms such as "expanding Universe", "big bang", and "initial singularity", are nowadays part of our common language. ...
Continue readingIn the last 45 years, X-ray astronomy has become an integral part of modern astrophysics and cosmology. There is a wide range ...
Continue readingThis set of extensive lectures presents a balanced theoretical and experimental introduction to, and survey of, the field, ...
Continue readingIn the last two decades of the 20th century, we obtained our first detailed look at a cometary nucleus and detected objects ...
Continue readingIt is well established and appreciated by now that more than 99% of the baryonic matter in the universe is in the plasma ...
Continue readingProfessor Kopal, who devoted 60 years of his scientific life to the exploration of close binary systems, initiated a breakthrough ...
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