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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 )
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 )
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 )
Astronomy and the Climate Crisis by Antony Cooke
epub |eng | | Author:Antony Cooke

There are limitations to what we can infer, of course, imposed on us by the relatively short time scale of accurate record keeping. However, the 60-year cycle does seem clearly ...
( Category: Astronomy August 8,2020 )
Astronomy of the Inca Empire by Steven R. Gullberg
epub |eng | | Author:Steven R. Gullberg

Morris, C. and Thompson, D. E., 1985. Huanaco Pampa: An Ancient City and its Hinterland. London, Thames and Hudson. Niles, S., 1987. Callachaca: Style and Status in an Inca Community. ...
( Category: Astronomy August 7,2020 )
The Last Stargazers by Emily Levesque
epub, mobi |eng | 2020-08-15 | Author:Emily Levesque

The Very Large Array in New Mexico (in its photogenic “D” configuration). Credit: Alex Savello, NRAO/AUI/NSF. First, though, I had a few of my own. As part of my summer ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science August 6,2020 )
The End of Everything: (Astrophysically Speaking) by Katie Mack
epub |eng | 2020-08-03 | Author:Katie Mack

STAR LIGHT THERMONUCLEAR BRIGHT But this book is about destruction, and I would be remiss if I glossed over Type Ia supernovae as just “a kind of exploding star.” A ...
( Category: Astronomy August 6,2020 )
The NexStar Evolution and SkyPortal User's Guide by James L. Chen & Adam Chen
epub |eng | | Author:James L. Chen & Adam Chen

2.The use of the Hibernate Enabled is applicable for permanent mounting installations or circumstances where the telescope is not moved. Trying to use the Hibernate Enabled can be tricky and ...
( Category: Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition August 6,2020 )
Apollo 11 by Passingham Ian;
epub |eng | | Author:Passingham, Ian;

BREAK A LEG, BUZZ! Buzz Aldrin’s wife has revealed she gave him a superstitious theatrical send-off. Amateur actress Joan Aldrin, addressing the media outside her home after watching on TV, ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight August 6,2020 )
Newton's Gravity by Douglas W. MacDougal
epub |eng | | Author:Douglas W. MacDougal

We want the left side to be just velocity, so we multiply each side by r 2 : Taking the square root of each side yields the circular orbital velocity ...
( Category: Geology August 3,2020 )
Confessions of an Alien Hunter by Seth Shostak
epub |eng | 2009-08-14 | Author:Seth Shostak

In the years before Senator Bryan arranged to vote SETI off the island, the search for extraterrestrial signals had moved considerably beyond Frank Drake’s pioneering scrutiny of two nearby star ...
( Category: UFOs August 2,2020 )
Earth: An Alien Enterprise by Timothy Good
epub |eng | 2015-06-07 | Author:Timothy Good [Good, Timothy]

Chapter Fifteen Technology Transfer On returning from the United States to his native Germany in 1959, following three years of studying information on alien spacecraft supplied by his own and ...
( Category: UFOs July 27,2020 )
The Backyard Astronomer's Field Guide by David Dickinson
epub |eng | 2020-06-05 | Author:David Dickinson [Dickinson, David]

The plane of the Milky Way Galaxy. Credit: Cory Schmitz. Ka-ulu reached the king and demanded to know the whereabouts of his brother. “He’s with the King of the Sharks,” ...
( Category: Astronomy July 22,2020 )
Santillana by The Crime of Galileo
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:The Crime of Galileo [Galileo, The Crime of]

III He decided to try out the ground. He wrote a long-overdue reply to Francesco Ingoli’s brief of 1616,15 in which, after correcting his opponent’s naïve mistakes in geometry in ...
( Category: Scientists July 22,2020 )
Astrobiology by Andrew May
epub |eng | 2019-07-14 | Author:Andrew May [Andrew May]

5 STARTING SMALL After all the excitement of interstellar messages and alien megastructures in the previous two chapters, it may seem like a backward step to start talking about far ...
( Category: Developmental Biology July 20,2020 )

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