Astronomy & Space Science
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2013-06-17 | Author:Stephen C. Meyer [Meyer, Stephen C.]

16 Other Post-Neo-Darwinian Models When Stephen Jay Gould was first wrestling with the question of how new forms of animal life could have arisen so quickly in the fossil record, ...
( Category: Science & Religion February 23,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Barry B. Luokkala

Exactly how many stars in the galaxy have planets is not yet known. What is known is that the fraction f p in Eq. (5.1) is a number less than ...
( Category: Shows February 12,2017 )
epub |eng | 2005-06-13 | Author:Joshua Gilder & Anne-Lee Gilder

CHAPTER 15 CONFRONTATION IN PRAGUE ON HEARING OF KEPLER’S UNEXPECTED ARRIVAL IN PRAGUE, BRAHE IMMEDIATELY DISPATCHED HIS ELDEST SON, TYGE, AND SOON-TO-BE SON-IN-LAW, Franz Tengnagel, in a carriage to the ...
( Category: Astronomy February 9,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:James L. Chen & Adam Chen

M15 is perhaps the densest of all (globular) star clusters in our Milky Way galaxy. The Hubble Space Telescope has photographically resolved its superdense core, as seen in Fig. 5.1. ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science February 9,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-06-16 | Author:Ervin Laszlo

It is little known that many prominent architects of twentieth-century science have also affirmed a unified, collective aspect of consciousness, in which all individual minds are connected as a single ...
( Category: Philosophy January 15,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jens Eickhoff

As the Power-Board in this design meets the steady state requirements given by the manufacturers of all three OBC data handling board types, an Engineering Model was built. Diverse tests ...
( Category: Hardware & DIY January 13,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jens Eickhoff

9.2.3.2 PMC Internal Mission Product Data Handling A matrix structure of all data sinks, data sources and data buffers is used to transfer payload data from one entity of the ...
( Category: Computer Science January 13,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Linde

Vision for the Future: An Interstellar Radar We have seen how astronomical observations are all about finding ways to carefully, patiently and shrewdly collect light that has been on its ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science January 9,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Brian D. D. Warner

9.4.1.1 Creating Flat Fields Ideally, a flat field is created by taking a set of images (submasters) of a field such that each pixel is equally illuminated by a light ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science January 9,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Hugh M. Van Horn

Koester rapidly made himself a leading expert in modeling the outer layers and atmospheres of these stars, hardly a surprising focus for someone trained in the school established by the ...
( Category: Astronomy January 9,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Gerrit Verschuur

9.5 Novae The word nova means ‘new star.’ From time to time a new star seen with the naked eye does appear in our heavens. Such an event occurred in ...
( Category: Astronomy January 9,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Joseph Ashley

Occultations A third lunar activity very suited for video astronomy is timing occultations of stars by the Moon. An occultation is when some object passes between a star and an ...
( Category: Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition January 8,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Mark Gallaway

8.3.2 Pointing Once you have all your calibration frames done, open the dome (assuming it’s dark). Some telescopes require you align to two or three bright stars. If you need ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science December 11,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-11-02 | Author:Dava Sobel

PART THREE In the Depths Above I saw in the stars a chance to observe phenomena beyond terrestrial scope. Nothing seemed impossible in those early days; we were going to ...
( Category: State & Local December 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-22 | Author:Richard Corfield [RICHARD CORFIELD]

THIS NEW EDEN It was one of the most moving things I have ever seen: two Martian warriors facing each other across the royal blue cloth covering the long table ...
( Category: Solar System December 2,2016 )