Astronomy
epub |eng | | Author:Timothy Ferris

14. The Outer Giants Spring night—one hour worth a thousand gold coins . . . —Su Tung-P’o The hidden harmony is better than the obvious one. —Heraclitus ON A WET ...
( Category: Astronomy March 16,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Dean Regas

How to Find It Canopus, the second brightest star in the entire sky, is all you need to identify the constellation Carina. Although Carina stands highest in the sky during ...
( Category: Star-Gazing March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Neil English

Clearly, these were not the bogus ‘scopes so derided by the astronomical cognoscenti! They performed well beyond my expectations! So why aren’t more of us wooed by the charms of ...
( Category: Astronomy March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-14 | Author:Benson, Donald;

Figure 6.5 Galileo’s telescopic observations of the phases of Venus supported the heliocentric theory of the solar system. In (c), Venus is greatly magnified. The relationship is shown between the ...
( Category: Astronomy March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-02-09 | Author:Mary Blewitt

( Category: Navigation March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Pat Norris

Moore’s Law Perhaps the most obvious reason why human flights to the Moon ended in the 1970s is that since then we humans have been outperformed by machines. We continue ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-17 | Author:Owens, Steve;

* * * Holes in the ground If a bit of space rock makes it to the ground, it can form a crater, but these craters are very rare on ...
( Category: Astronomy March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-28 | Author:Maran, Stephen P.;

The disk of Uranus has a pale green tint; you can make out the disk with a high-power eyepiece when viewing conditions are good. (Chapter 3 has more about telescopes ...
( Category: Astronomy March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Philip J. Armitage & Wilhelm Kley & Marc Audard & Michael R. Meyer & Yann Alibert

209. Kamp, I., Dullemond, C.P.: The gas temperature in the surface layers of protoplanetary disks. ApJ 615, 991–999 (2004). https://​doi.​org/​10.​1086/​424703ADSCrossref 210. Kamp, I., van Zadelhoff, G.J.: On the gas temperature ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science March 14,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Bernard Henin

The Atmosphere As with many satellites in our Solar System, Titan was a strange curiosity for hundreds of years. Apart from noting that it had an orange tinge, unique among ...
( Category: Hydrology March 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-02-13 | Author:Nancy Atkinson

THE FUTURE OF PLANET HUNTING Bill Borucki retired in 2015, passing the torch on to the next generation to continue the search for other worlds. “My greatest honor has been ...
( Category: Astronomy March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Nick Gorkavyi & Alexander Dudorov & Sergey Taskaev

Such discrepancy between the calculated and experimental data can be explained by the marked non-uniformity of the falling object and the presence of pieces that were of considerably higher strength ...
( Category: Astronomy March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Alexander C.T. Geppert

‘Space: 1999 occupies a unique and not altogether happy position in the Valhalla of televised space adventures. It is the program that Star Trek fans love to hate, even 20 ...
( Category: Astronomy March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-28 | Author:C'one, Dr. Claudia Albers Scott & C'one, Scott [C'one, Dr. Claudia Albers Scott]

Figure 11.9 . The Sun’s atmosphere having lost its highest energy electrons, and thus highest altitude electrons, will lose the strong outer electric field, it had before. Thus, the Sun ...
( Category: Astronomy March 13,2020 )