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Dreams of Other Worlds by Impey Chris Henry Holly
epub |eng | 2013-08-14 | Author:Impey, Chris, Henry, Holly

10 Chandra EXPLORING THE VIOLENT COSMOS WHEN WE DREAM OF OTHER WORLDS, our dreams may be vivid and real and colorful, but they’re subject to the limitations of our senses. ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science August 30,2020 )
Space 2069 by David Whitehouse
epub |eng | 2020-08-15 | Author:David Whitehouse

CLIMBING MOUNT SHARP Intrigued by the geological signs seen from orbit, NASA landed its next rover, called Curiosity, in Gale crater in August 2012. Curiosity is the most sophisticated rover ...
( Category: Engineering August 30,2020 )
Sunburst and Luminary: An Apollo Memoir by Don Eyles
azw3, epub |eng | 2018-12-11 | Author:Don Eyles

PINPOINT LANDING I was promoted to Principal Engineer. I thought that sounded very nice. My salary was up to almost $900 a month. My rent in Lime Street was $180. ...
( Category: Memoirs August 29,2020 )
Hubble's Universe by Terence Dickinson
epub |eng | 2013-11-21 | Author:Terence Dickinson

NGC1872 A rich cluster of thousands of stars dwells in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Star clusters are usually classed as either open or globular, but NGC1872 has characteristics of both. ...
( Category: Astronomy August 26,2020 )
Visually Observing Comets by David A. J. Seargent
epub |eng | | Author:David A. J. Seargent

Features to Look For in the Tail In general, plasma tails show the most detail, although this is better revealed in images than with the eye alone. Dust tails , ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science August 26,2020 )
Image Detection by Unknown
epub |eng | 2018-07-16 | Author:Unknown

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( Category: Astronomy & Space Science August 23,2020 )
Astronomy: from the beginning: A history of skywatching and early astronomers from cave paintings and stone circles to the Renaissance and the first telescopes by Seddon Christopher
epub |eng | 2020-08-18 | Author:Seddon, Christopher [Seddon, Christopher]

13: India The historical context The first urban society to emerge in the Indian subcontinent was the Harappan civilisation, which flourished between 2600 and 1900 BC in the floodplains of ...
( Category: Astronomy August 23,2020 )
A Universe from Nothing by Lawrence M. Krauss
epub |eng | | Author:Lawrence M. Krauss

If the region is large enough but not too large, then the galaxies at the edge of the region will be receding from us uniformly due to the Hubble expansion, ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science August 20,2020 )
First Moon (Four Moons Book 1) by Richard Amos
epub |eng | 2020-02-27 | Author:Richard Amos [Amos, Richard]

The elven caravans moved around the skytube’s former underground tunnels along purposely built roads, clustering in places along the tunnels to form markets on the platforms, or deeper inside the ...
( Category: Children's Animals Books August 19,2020 )
Where the Universe Came From by New Scientist
epub |eng | 2017-01-31 | Author:New Scientist

FIGURE 6.1 Evidence for dark matter: stars near the edge of galaxies are travelling too fast to be held in orbit merely by the gravity of the matter we can ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science August 15,2020 )
Space Telescopes by Neil English
epub |eng | | Author:Neil English

The Chandra X-Ray Observatory Like all other great telescopes, the Chandra X-Ray telescope originated with a good idea. In 1976 the Chandra X-ray Observatory (called AXAF at the time) was ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science August 15,2020 )
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil Degrasse Tyson
epub, mobi |eng | 2017-05-01 | Author:Neil Degrasse Tyson [Tyson, Neil Degrasse]

Aluminum occupies nearly ten percent of Earth’s crust yet was unknown to the ancients and unfamiliar to our great-grandparents. The element was not isolated and identified until 1827 and did ...
( Category: Astronomy August 12,2020 )
Telescopes and Techniques by C. R. Kitchin
epub |eng | | Author:C. R. Kitchin

There remains one problem with the alt-az mounting, though: if an object is followed as it moves across the sky, the image plane rotates with respect to the telescope. For ...
( Category: Engineering August 12,2020 )
Fly Me to the Moon by Belbruno Edward Tyson Neil deGrasse
epub |eng | 2013-08-14 | Author:Belbruno, Edward, Tyson, Neil deGrasse

1 Unlike a Hohmann transfer, based upon modeling the motion of the spacecraft with either the Earth or the Moon in two-body problems, the ballistic capture transfer requires modeling simultaneously ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science August 9,2020 )
Astrobiology: A Very Short Introduction by David C. Catling
epub |eng | 2013-08-14 | Author:David C. Catling

An inside view of terrestrial life: the cell We have just considered biology on a global scale but under the microscope all organisms are composed of cells of different types ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science August 9,2020 )

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