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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 ...

Neutron Stars 1

The book gives an extended review of theoretical and observational aspects of neutron star physics. With masses comparable ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Parting the Cosmic Veil

Astronomers have used telescopes, operating at the visible wavelengths that we see with our eye, to reveal the true extent ...

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 ...

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 ...

Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology

This book offers a succinct and self-contained treatment of general relativity and its application to neutron stars, black ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Starbursts

Starbursts are important features of early galaxy evolution. Many of the distant, high-redshift galaxies we are able to detect ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Future of Life and the Future of our Civilization

This book covers the proceedings of "The Future of Life and the Future of our Civilization" symposium, held in Frankfurt, ...

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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