epub |eng | | Author:Anton Vamplew [Anton Vamplew]

* * * MAGNITUDE 3.65 * * * SIZE 36’ * * * DISTANCE IN LIGHT-YEARS 17,000 * * * This is omega Centauri – ‘That’s a star!’ I hear ...

epub |eng | 2009-04-26 | Author:Robert Gendler

The Pacman Nebula Translucent pillars of gas point toward the hot stars that power the Pacman Nebula (NGC 281). Radiation emitted by the stars illuminates the gas clouds but also ...

epub |eng | 2009-03-24 | Author:Owen Gingerich

Herein was fulfilled one of the most touching of prophecies. Years before, the opponents of Copernicus had said to him, "If your doctrines were true, Venus would show phases like ...

epub |eng | 2014-03-12 | Author:Thierry Legault

1. Make sure the details that appear are real and are not artifacts 2. Warn the viewers of the image that some features may not be real and that it ...

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. ...

epub |eng | | Author:Phil Simpson

epub |eng | | Author:Waltham, David

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-05-05 | Author:Dan Parry [Dan Parry]

Chapter 10 PUSHED TO THE LIMIT The final say on whether Apollo 11 would launch on schedule was down to the crew as much as anyone, and determined to make ...

epub |eng | 2013-12-04 | Author:Dickinson, Terence [Dickinson, Terence]

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. ...

epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Woodhouse, Chris [Chris Woodhouse]

fig.8 Sequence Generator Pro uniquely focuses images using multiple HFD measurements from one image, improving speed and reliability. The autofocus settings dialog box has many options, not only for the ...

epub, mobi | | | Author:Carl Sagan [Sagan, Carl]

18. The Canals of Mars In 1877 (as in 1971) the planet Mars was close–forty million miles from Earth. European astronomers, with newly developed telescopes, prepared for what was then ...

epub |eng | | Author:Alan Hirshfeld [Hirshfeld, Alan]

While astronomers were engaged in the Dopplerian debate over star colors, a little-known conjecture wafted in the background. In December 1848, French physicist Armand-Hippolyte-Louis Fizeau delivered a lecture at the ...

epub |eng | 2014-09-29 | Author:Richard Grossinger [Grossinger, Richard]

In the traditional occult, Venus is the goddess of love and ripeness, tranquility and charity. She represents the ardor within nature to grow and spread, dispatching fields of wild plants ...

epub |eng | 2011-05-10 | Author:Stephen Hawking [Hawking, Stephen]

*A lecture given at the Three Hundred Years of Gravity conference held in Cambridge in June 1987, on the three hundredth anniversary of the publication of Newton’s Principia. Ten THE ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2009-07-01 | Author:Christopher Cokinos

THERE’S ANOTHER REASON FOR the frenzy: A self-described “long-haired rock and roller” with a mailbox shaped like a rocket and a persona as subtle as a fireball. Robert Haag—The Meteorite ...