Astrophysics & Space Science
epub |eng | 2012-07-02 | Author:Bryan Gaensler [Gaensler, Bryan]

As big as they come Although most of the stars in the sky are small and unimpressive red dwarfs, we have already seen in chapter 4 that it’s the rare, ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science March 10,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-02-13 | Author:Zeeya Merali

6 The Accidental Universe Makers When you first set eyes on the ATLAS detector, the largest experiment housed along the 27-kilometer tunnel of the Large Hadron Collider, you are immediately ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science March 9,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-08 | Author:Tassoul, Monique; Tassoul, Jean-Louis;

Figure 5.1 Some of the participants in the Fourth Annual Conference on Theoretical Physics in Washington, D.C. (March 1938). Left to right: (seated) L. H. Thomas, George Gamow, Svein Rosseland, ...
( Category: Particle Physics March 9,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2019-10-07 | Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson [deGrasse Tyson, Neil]

Dead Man Talking Wednesday, March 27, 2019 Dear Cousin Neil, The day after my father died, I went to the funeral home to view his body. He’d been sick for ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science March 9,2020 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Stephen Webb

Solution 49 The Migration Hypothesis Nothing burns like the cold. George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones In recent years the Serbian astronomer Milan Ćirković has thought more deeply ...
( Category: Astronomy March 9,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:José Natário

5.2 Gravitational Redshift The first thought experiment to which Einstein applied his equivalence principle was the following—suppose that Einstein, from an intermediate floor on the leaning tower of Pisa, sends ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science March 8,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-07 | Author:Jon Larsen

ANTHROPOGENIC SPHERULES Spherules from a Steam Locomotive There is a widespread misconception that searching for micrometeorites in the vicinity of railroad lines is impossible, due to spherules produced by the ...
( Category: Astronomy March 8,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Gabriella Bernardi & Alberto Vecchiato

7.3 The Payload Module Fastened over the service module, and protected like the latter by the thermal tent, there is the payload module. In space science parlance, the payload is ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science March 8,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2020-02-24 | Author:Ann Druyan [Druyan, Ann]

* * * THERE’S ANOTHER FORM OF INTELLIGENCE, one that’s much closer. We didn’t even know it existed until recently. Complex beyond our wildest imagining, it was built by a ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science March 7,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Fabio Vittorio De Blasio

Fig. 3.17High (red) and low thermal inertia (greenish) zones in Titonium Chasma. The red corresponds to values on the order of 600 J m−2 K−1 s−1/2; the green, to about ...
( Category: Geology March 7,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-06 | Author:Mark Brake

APOCALYPSE NOW: IN WHAT SIX WAYS DOES SCIENCE FICTION SEE THE END OF OUR WORLD? FADE IN: TV images. A high street. An abandoned car. On the road beside it, ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science March 7,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-13 | Author:Launius, Roger D.;

Earthrise, one of the most powerful and iconic images from the Apollo program, was taken by astronaut Bill Anders in December 1968 during the Apollo 8 mission. This view of ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight March 7,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-11-09 | Author:C'one, Dr. Claudia Albers PhDScott & C'one, Scott [C'one, Dr. Claudia Albers PhDScott]

Figure 6. A vibrating diaphragm (small drum) on one end of the pipe creates alternative compressions, and rarefactions, of air molecules, which travel through the pipe, and are called sound ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science March 6,2020 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2019-02-25 | Author:Stephen Spignesi

Participants were given four options for evaluating their view of the statement: Definitely false: You are completely convinced that the statement is false and you would act without hesitation in ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight March 6,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Manfred "Dutch" von Ehrenfried

7.2 SIMULATION PERSONNEL The people that trained flight crews and flight controllers were a special breed. They delighted in honing individuals and teams to a sharp edge by highlighting their ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science March 5,2020 )