Highlights of Spanish Astrophysics IV
This volume documents the contributions presented at the Seventh Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society (Sociedad ...
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Ice, Rock, and Beauty : A Visual Tour of the New Solar System
Ice, Rock, and Beauty is a book for anybody who lives in the solar neighborhood, and takes an interest in its significance ...
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Il cielo sopra Roma : I luoghi dell’astronomia = The sky above Rome: The places of astronomy
Astronomy in Rome has always been there, but a little hidden: it was in the palaces, in the churches or, better, above the ...
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In Search of Dark Matter
The dark matter problem is one of the most fundamental and profoundly difficult to solve problems in the history of science. ...
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Inflationary Cosmology
Some 25 years after the birth of inflationary cosmology this volume sets out to provide a both authoritative and pedagogical ...
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Its ONLY Rocket Science : An Introduction in Plain English
"Well, it’s not rocket science, is it?" How many times have you heard people use that expression when they mean something ...
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La loi de la gravitation universelle Newton, Euler et Laplace : Le cheminement d’une révolution scientifique vers une science normale = The law of universal gravitation Newton, Euler and Laplace: The progress of a scientific revolution towards a normal science
An analysis of Newton's ideas dismisses this hypothesis by the simple fact that the Principia sought to demonstrate the ...
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La musica del Big Bang : Come la radiazione cosmica di fondo ci ha svelato i segreti dell’Universo = The music of the Big Bang: How the cosmic background radiation revealed the secrets of the Universe to us
Cosmic microwave background radiation is the residue of the great heat following the Big Bang. A tenuous sign, over 13 billion ...
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Molecular Beams in Physics and Chemistry From Otto Stern's Pioneering Exploits to Present-Day Feats
This book gives a comprehensive account of both the history and current achievements of molecular beam research. In 1919, ...
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Multiple Stars Across the H-R Diagram : Proceedings of the ESO Workshop held in Garching, Germany, 12-15 July 2005
Stars show a marked tendency to be in systems of different multiplicity, ranging from simple binaries and triples to globular ...
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Multiwavelength Mapping of Galaxy Formation and Evolution
The possibilities of astronomical observation have dramatically increased over the last decade. Major satellites, like the ...
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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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Nishina Memorial Lectures : Creators of Modern Physics
This volume is a collection of Nishina Memorial Lectures delivered by distinguished physicists during the past 50 years at ...
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Optics in Astrophysics
The book addresses most of the most critical interdisciplinary domains where they interact, or where they will do. A first ...
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In this book forty eminent scientists review their studies in the fields of Life from the beginning to the "Fact of Life". ...
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Particle Physics and the Universe
The focus of the contributions contained in this proceedings is the interplay between cosmology, astroparticle physics and ...
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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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Planck Scale Effects in Astrophysics and Cosmology
This volume is composed of extensive and detailed notes from the lectures given at the 40th Karpacz Winter School. This school ...
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Precision Spectroscopy in Astrophysics : Proceedings of the ESO/Lisbon/Aveiro Conference held in Aveiro, Portugal, 11–15 September 2006
High-accuracy Doppler shift measurements and high-precision spectroscopy are primary techniques in the search for exo-planets. Further ...
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Quantum Analogues: From Phase Transitions to Black Holes and Cosmology
Recently, analogies between laboratory physics and gravitational/cosmological phenomena. Especially in view of the tremendous ...
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