This is the story of radio astronomy, of how radio waves are generated by stars, supernova, quasars, colliding galaxies, ...
Lire la suiteThe last two chapters of the book present Eshelby's sophisticated theory in a didactically accessible way, knowledge of ...
Lire la suiteThe book gathers the invited talks to the XIII JENAM conference, organized this time by the European Astronomical Society ...
Lire la suiteMost cosmological information is encoded in the cosmic background radiation by acoustic oscillations in the dense plasma ...
Lire la suiteExoplanet, extrasolar planet, exoEarth, exojupiter: neologisms still absent from many dictionaries. These terms are, however, ...
Lire la suiteThe book explains the wide-ranging implications of nonlinear phenomena for future developments in many areas of modern science, ...
Lire la suiteThere are 365 nights in every year (366 in a leap year!) and from an amateur astronomer’s point of view, no two are alike.And ...
Lire la suiteThis thoroughly revised 5th edition of Zeh's classic text investigates irreversible phenomena and their foundation in classical, ...
Lire la suiteThe Physics of the Early Universe is an edited and expanded version of the lectures given at a recent summer school of the ...
Lire la suiteThe book discusses the beginnings of the process from cosmological observations and calculations, considers the broad features ...
Lire la suiteEven though mathematics and physics have been related for centuries and this relation appears to be unproblematic, there ...
Lire la suiteSpecifically traces the impact of Einstein's ideas on astronomy, including the way we interpret observations of stars and ...
Lire la suiteThis volume is an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of the engineering of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), a revolutionary ...
Lire la suiteTerms such as "expanding Universe", "big bang", and "initial singularity", are nowadays part of our common language. ...
Lire la suiteIn the last 45 years, X-ray astronomy has become an integral part of modern astrophysics and cosmology. There is a wide range ...
Lire la suiteThis book contains scores of intriguing puzzles and paradoxes from Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice in Wonderland, whose ...
Lire la suiteProposes solutions to the impasse and crisis facing fundamental physics and cosmology. This work describes a cosmological ...
Lire la suiteTopics discussed include the prehistory of special relativity, early attempts at a relativistic theory of gravitation, the ...
Lire la suiteIt is well established and appreciated by now that more than 99% of the baryonic matter in the universe is in the plasma ...
Lire la suiteThe emphasis on white dwarf stars and cosmology arises from the most recent advances in cosmological and galactic structure ...
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