Mars, A Cosmic Stepping Stone : Uncovering Humanity’s Cosmic Context
The questions of our origin and cosmic abundance of life are among the compelling facing humanity. For all of the difficulties ...
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Neutron Stars 1
The book gives an extended review of theoretical and observational aspects of neutron star physics. With masses comparable ...
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Organizations and Strategies in Astronomy
This book is the seventh volume under the title Organizations and Strategies in Astronomy (OSA). The chapters of this book ...
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Origins : How the Planets, Stars, Galaxies, and the Universe Began
The biggest questions in astronomy are those of how the planets, stars, galaxies, and the Universe were formed. ORIGINS describes ...
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Outer Magnetospheric Boundaries: Cluster Results
When the stream of plasma emitted from the Sun (the solar wind) encounters Earth's magnetic field, it slows down and flows ...
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Parting the Cosmic Veil
Astronomers have used telescopes, operating at the visible wavelengths that we see with our eye, to reveal the true extent ...
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Quantum Gravitation : The Feynman Path Integral Approach
The book covers the theory of Quantum Gravitation from the point of view of Feynman path integrals. These provide a manifestly ...
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Relativistic Astrophysics Legacy and Cosmology – Einstein’s
The year 2005, which marked the 100th anniversary of the 'annus mirabilis', the year in which Albert Einstein published ...
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Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology
This book offers a succinct and self-contained treatment of general relativity and its application to neutron stars, black ...
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Relativity and the Dimensionality of the World
The main focus of this volume is the question: is spacetime nothing more than a mathematical space (which describes the evolution ...
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Science with the Atacama Large Millimeter Array : A New Era for Astrophysics
This book describes the enormous capabilities of ALMA, the state of the project, and most notably the scientific prospects ...
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Scientific Detectors for Astronomy 2005
The 2005 meeting in Taormina, Italy was attended by 127 professionals who develop and use the highest quality detectors for ...
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Solar, Stellar and Galactic Connections between Particle Physics and Astrophysics
This book collects extended and specialized reviews on topics linking astrophysics and particle physics at a level intermediate ...
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Star Maps : History, Artistry, and Cartography
This book traces the history of celestial cartography and relates this history to the changing ideas of man’s place in ...
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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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State of the Universe 2007
The book cover all major astronomical news on topics beyond the Solar System and place them in the context of the longer ...
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State of the Universe 2008 : New Images, Discoveries, and Events
Provides an annual astronomy review suitable for the popular science level reader to be published every September. The book ...
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The Complete CD Guide to the Universe
This guide contains descriptions and charts for a total of almost 14,000 objects, and is probably the largest and most comprehensive ...
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This book covers the proceedings of "The Future of Life and the Future of our Civilization" symposium, held in Frankfurt, ...
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The Future of the Universe
A lot has been written about the history of the universe, from the Big Bang through the evolution of galaxies and stars, ...
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