Astrophysics & Space Science
epub |eng | | Author:David A. J. Seargent

A Universe for All Time? According to the most recent data from the Planck space probe, the age of the universe is 13.82 billion (1,000 million) years. This is the ...
( Category: Astronomy April 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-03 | Author:Paul A. LaViolette, Ph.D.

SEVEN NATURAL OR ARTIFICIAL Lighthouse Trouble Supernova Origin Problem. Although astronomers continue to use the neutron star lighthouse model to interpret the pulsar phenomenon, they readily admit there are many ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science April 8,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:John Wilkinson

Daily drawings of sunspot groups can be used to monitor their evolution (change in shape and appearance) as they move across the Sun’s disc. Remember a single spot is also ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science April 8,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:David A.J. Seargent

Black Meteors Have you ever been watching the sky for meteors – probably ­during the time of a meteor shower – when you suddenly seem to see a dark object ...
( Category: Astronomy April 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-07 | Author:Paul Abel

Victoria Crater as seen by the Opportunity rover. The discoveries by Spirit and Opportunity have been remarkable, largely thanks to their longevity but also because they carry a sophisticated suite ...
( Category: Astronomy April 8,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:David A. J. Seargent

Other “Plutos” and Their Siblings Returning to Kuiper belt objects in general, several groups or families of these have been distinguished according to their orbital characteristics; principally how they relate ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science April 7,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:McCray, W. Patrick

CHAPTER 6 California Dreaming As I’ve said many times, the future is here. It’s just not very evenly distributed. —William Gibson, science fiction author, interview on National Public Radio, November ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science March 27,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Martin Rees [Rees, Martin]

THE TUNING OF THE INITIAL EXPANSION Ω may not be exactly one, but it is now at least 0.3. At first sight, this may not seem to indicate fine tuning. ...
( Category: Astronomy March 13,2016 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2002-10-03 | Author:Stephen Webb [Webb, Stephen]

FIGURE 44: The planetary nebula NGC 7027. Objects like this produce much of the carbon we observe in the Universe. The main producers of cosmic carbon are planetary nebulae, which ...
( Category: Astronomy March 6,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-10 | Author:Katherine Blundell [Blundell, Katherine]

13. Gas can orbit closer to a spinning black hole than to a non-rotating one. Orbiting around a black hole It is interesting to ponder what would be the sequence ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science February 3,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-08-23 | Author:Mike Bara

(Lunacognita) What these independent images show is that there is ample evidence for the theorized glass towers over Mare Crisium. We have several TLP observations over a couple of centuries ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science January 19,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-26 | Author:Catling, David C. [Catling, David C.]

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 January 10,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-29 | Author:Neil DeGrasse Tyson

A trip to the Moon through the vacuum of space had been in sight, even if technologically distant, ever since 1926, when Robert Goddard perfected liquid-fuel rockets. This advance in ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight January 7,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2004-01-01 | Author:George Pendle [Pendle, George]

Amidst the chorus of celebration sounded a few dissonant notes. Ever since the military had stepped in as the Suicide Squad’s main benefactor, levels of security had soared and a ...
( Category: Occultism January 6,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2011-07-11 | Author:Ben Mezrich [Mezrich, Ben]

* * * The long hours are still flowering. I watch them with my eyes closed and remember how I once played a part in a fairy tale. How the ...
( Category: State & Local December 24,2015 )