A fascinating and spectacular exploration of the cosmos that provides readers with a definitive view of the latest discoveries.
David S. Chandler, The Night Sky Planisphere (Springville, CA: The David Chandler Company, 1992). ... Axel Mellinger and Ronald Stoyan, The Cambridge Photographic Star Atlas (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011).
From the emergence of life at deep-sea vents to solar-powered starships sailing through the galaxy, from the Big Bang to the intricacies of intelligence in many life forms, acclaimed author Ann Druyan documents where humanity has been and ...
The historical and social implications of the telescope and that instrument's modern-day significance are brought into startling focus in this fascinating account.
to the Second Edition The development of astronomy in the last ten years has been nothing short of explosive. This second edition of The New Cosmos, considerably revised and enlarged,...
Now , ten years after the appearance of the 4th edition , a completely revised and updated version of the New Cosmos , translated from the 7th German edition , has been completed ; it takes into account the wealth of new results from ...
Who are we in the grand scheme of the cosmos? From alternative theories of the origin of our universe to locating black holes, this book describes what's going on today in professional astronomy.
Presents an illustrated guide to the universe and to Earth's relationship to it, moving from theories of creation to humankind's discovery of the cosmos, to general relativity, to space missions, and beyond.
Deming had 40 years of experience and almost 500 publications to his name, centeredoninfraredtechniquessorprobing planetary atmospheres. Hisproposal, specifically, was to searchforwater vaporin some 3 hotgiantexoplanetatnospheres, ...
Ervin Laszlo's tour de force, What is Reality?, is the product of a half-century of deep contemplation and cutting-edge scholarship.
Winner of the 2021 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Science & Technology A Finalist for the 2022 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award A Smithsonian Magazine Best Science Book of 2021 A Symmetry Magazine Top 10 Physics Book of 2021 ...