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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 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 ...

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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, ...

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The Moon

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

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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, ...

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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 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 ...

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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. ...

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The Sky is Your Laboratory

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

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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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