Astrophysics & Space Science
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Guillen

VICI On February 29, 1812, Faraday leapt up the stone steps and rushed through the heavy doors of London’s Royal Institution. Symbolically, it was like the storming of Bastille, except ...
( Category: History January 26,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-06 | Author:Buzz Aldrin [Aldrin, Buzz]

Robotic spacecraft surveys a large asteroid. (Illustration Credit 5.6) Private Sentinel telescope eyes asteroid population. (Illustration Credit 5.7) Along with the need to come to terms with the dangers of ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight January 25,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2014-09-03 | Author:Trinity Jorden [Jorden, Trinity]

Planets - Neptune Image 21 - Neptune Neptune is the eighth planet out from the Sun and is the last of the jovian planets. As is the case with Uranus, ...
( Category: Astronomy January 20,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-14 | Author:Chris Hadfield [Hadfield, Chris]

Summer bushfires, sparked by extreme heat and dryness, sear new scars on dry plains. On average, there are 50,000 bushfires a year in Australia—a cycle of devastation (and regeneration) that ...
( Category: Photo Essays January 18,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2007-01-16 | Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

AT THE RISK of oversimplifying the life cycle of a high-mass star, it is sufficient to recognize that a star is in the business of making and releasing energy, which ...
( Category: Astronomy January 17,2015 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2008-08-20 | Author:Stanton T. Friedman

SETI people don't seem to want to discuss the simple notion that technologically advanced civilizations must either learn to live at relative peace with other civilizations or be destroyed by ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science January 16,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-12 | Author:Roger Wiens [Wiens, Roger]

chapter fourteen CANCELED THE MSL ROVER PROJECT GOT ALONG FINE FINANCIALLY FOR the first two years. Some areas grew in cost, but the program had more than enough in reserve ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight January 16,2015 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-07-22 | Author:Tyson, Neil deGrasse & Donald Goldsmith [Tyson, Neil deGrasse]

CHAPTER 12 Between the Planets From a distance, our solar system looks empty. If you enclosed it within a sphere large enough to contain the orbit of Neptune, then the ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science January 15,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-06-20 | Author:Unknown

His mind skipped from the lake to the Thanh Hoa station, which was burning fiercely after the bombing raids. Everything that could burn was burning. From the capsized train men, ...
( Category: History & Theory January 10,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-04-26 | Author:Asimov, Isaac [Asimov, Isaac]

55. ARE THERE PLANETS THE ANCIENTS DIDN’T KNOW? The asteroids, which I have already described, may be tiny, but they are planets circling the sun, and no one knew of ...
( Category: Astronomy January 1,2015 )
epub |eng | 1994-01-27 | Author:Kaku, Michio & O'Keefe, Robert [O'Keefe, Robert]

Signals from Outer Space Since the SSC will never be built, and hence will never detect particles that are low-energy resonances of the superstring, then another possibility is to measure ...
( Category: Waves & Wave Mechanics December 29,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2014-11-07 | Author:Thorne, Kip [Thorne, Kip]

After discovering that Miller’s planet is hopeless for human colonization, Cooper and his crew travel to Mann’s planet. The Planet’s Orbit and Lack of Sun I have deduced a plausible ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science November 12,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-10-08 | Author:Stephen Hawking; Leonard Mlodinow

Due to the work of Einstein, physicists realized that by demanding that the speed of light be the same in all frames of reference, Maxwell’s theory of electricity and magnetism ...
( Category: Cosmology November 11,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2014-11-04 | Author:Kip Thorne

(a) Karl Jansky and the antenna with which he discovered, in 1952, cosmic radio waves from our galaxy, (b) Grote Reber, ca 1940. (c) The world’s first radio telescope, constructed ...
( Category: Microbiology November 7,2014 )
epub | | | Author:Stephen Hawking & Leonard Mlodinow

( Category: Cosmology October 31,2014 )