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Space at the Speed of Light by Smethurst Becky
azw3 |eng | 2020-06-01 | Author:Smethurst, Becky [Smethurst, Becky]

Back in 1995, radial velocity measurements were used to detect 51 Pegasi b, a roughly Jupiter-size planet orbiting around a Sun-like star every four days. It’s unsurprising that this was ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science June 21,2020 )
Life Under Glass by Mark Nelson
epub |eng | 2020-06-18 | Author:Mark Nelson

THE DESERT SHOWS A MIND OF ITS OWN Life asserts itself in surprising ways, and this is particularly true with the desert. When SBV designed it, a basic problem had ...
( Category: Environmentalists & Naturalists June 19,2020 )
Universal by Brian Cox
azw3, epub |eng | 2020-06-05 | Author:Brian Cox

Figure 6.5 The origin of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation. Dicke and his colleagues made these observations having just heard the news that, away at the Bell Laboratories in ...
( Category: Astronomy June 10,2020 )
Human Universe by Professor Brian Cox
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-04-08 | Author:Professor Brian Cox [Cox, Professor Brian]

* * * EVOLUTION OF HOMINIDS These hominid evolutionary trees trace our genetic history as humans to the Old World monkeys that roamed Earth 25 million years ago. Discoveries of ...
( Category: Astronomy June 10,2020 )
Quantum Physics Made Simple: The Introduction Guide In Plain Simple English For Beginners Who Flunked Maths And Science by Grey Donald B
epub |eng | 2020-01-28 | Author:Grey, Donald B. [Grey, Donald B.]

Time Traveling: From Electrons to... Everything Time traveling has long been a dream of mankind. We’ve written about it, made movies about it, and we’ve imagined it in every way ...
( Category: Quantum Theory June 9,2020 )
UFOs by John B. Alexander Ph.D
epub |eng | | Author:John B. Alexander, Ph.D.

11 THE UK CONNECTION The evidence that there are objects which have been seen in our atmosphere, and even on terra firma, that cannot be accounted for either as man-made ...
( Category: UFOs June 5,2020 )
Space at the Speed of Light: The History of 14 Billion Years for People Short on Time by Becky Smethurst
epub |eng | 2020-06-01 | Author:Becky Smethurst [Smethurst, Becky]

The universe sprang into being, in a wondrous storm of creation, 14 billion years ago; 9.5 billion years later, the Sun, the Earth, and the solar system started to take ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science June 4,2020 )
How to Die in Space by Paul Sutter
epub |eng | 2020-06-02 | Author:Paul Sutter

* * * There are other ways to make a scene. Sometimes, a do-nothing middle-of-the-road star gets a chance to see its name in lights. The story of death and ...
( Category: Astronomy June 3,2020 )
The Sun by Philip Judge
epub |eng | 2020-03-20 | Author:Philip Judge

• systematic spot emergence between -30 and 30 degrees latitude, within the ‘wings of the butterfly’ (Figure 18); • leading and following spots are of opposite signs in each hemisphere ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science June 3,2020 )
The Little Book of Cosmology by Page Lyman;
epub |eng | 2020-01-13 | Author:Page, Lyman;

Plate 7 shows maps of the CMB anisotropy from both WMAP and Planck. Whereas the left side of figure 3.1 is made looking down on Earth from space, the images ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science May 25,2020 )
Yearbook of Astronomy 2020 by Jones Brian;
epub |eng | | Author:Jones, Brian;

The late 18th and early 19th centuries saw the increasing specialisation of science into specific disciplines such as natural history and geology, and a growing number of people specialising in ...
( Category: Astronomy May 11,2020 )
Australia 1901 - 2001 by Andrew Tink
epub |eng | 2014-10-14 | Author:Andrew Tink

27 All the way with LBJ A keen spear fisherman with an athlete’s body, Harold Holt seemed made for the ‘swinging sixties’. Photographed in a wet suit, posing with his ...
( Category: Satellite May 5,2020 )
Astrophysics by Sten Odenwald
epub |eng | 2019-07-16 | Author:Sten Odenwald

Main Sequence Stars (0.4 to 2 Msun) These stars span the spectral classes from red dwarf M-type stars to very hot A-type stars. The evolution of these stars is extremely ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science May 5,2020 )
Quantum Legacies: Dispatches From an Uncertain World by David Kaiser
epub |eng | 2020-03-15 | Author:David Kaiser [Kaiser, David]

Figure 13.1. Top, Carl Brans during his graduate studies at Princeton, 1959. (Source: Courtesy of Carl Brans.) Bottom, Brans’s dissertation adviser at Princeton, Robert Dicke. (Source: Photograph by Mitchell Valentine, ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science May 5,2020 )
Dream Missions by Michel van Pelt
epub |eng | | Author:Michel van Pelt

Hypersatellites and star shades Over the relatively short history of spaceflight, several concepts for more substantial satellites have nevertheless been dreamed up. Interestingly, whereas the most ambitious and largest ideas ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight May 3,2020 )

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