Popular astronomy & space (99)

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:Based on the latest missions results and supported by commissioned artwork, this book explores the possible lessons we may learn from exoplanets. As the number of known Earth-like objects grows significantly, the author explores what is known about t...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:Das vorliegende Buch vermittelt die Grundkenntnisse der Ephemeridenrechnung. Ausgehend von den Kepler’schen Gesetzen erfolgt die Berechnung der Koordinaten der Planeten in der Bahnebene. Über eine Anzahl von Transformationen ermittelt man die Koordi...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This classically styled, chilling murder mystery about an expedition under the ice of Jupiter’s ocean moon Europa, backed up by the latest scientific findings on this icy satellite. The science fiction premise explores real possibilities of exploring...

publisher: Springer
year: 2011
description:Sind wir allein im Universum? Obwohl unsere technischen Möglichkeiten auch heute noch sehr begrenzt sind, ist es Forschern gelungen, zahlreiche interessante Welten aufzuspüren. Bisher wurden über 450 extrasolare Planeten entdeckt, kreisend um mehr al...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:Sie begeistern sich für Astronomie und Astrophysik? Tauchen Sie mit diesem Buch in die atemberaubenden Welten unserer kosmischen Nachbarschaft ein: Lassen Sie sich auf faszinierende Monde entführen, erfahren Sie, welche geologischen Mechanismen die P...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:In the last 25 years, planetary science experienced a revolution, as vast oceans of liquid water have been discovered within the heart of the icy moons of our Solar System. These subsurface oceans lie hidden under thick layers of ice. We call them oc...

publisher: Springer
year: 2016
description:This book celebrates the final spaceflight in the Mercury series, flown by NASA astronaut Gordon Cooper, who led an adventurous life in the cockpit of airplanes and spacecraft alike, and on his Mercury mission he became the last American ever to rock...

publisher: Springer
year: 2016
description:Bob Mizon, one of the world’s best known campaigners against the veil of light pollution that has taken away the starry sky from most of the world’s population, takes readers to a hundred places in the UK and the USA where the wonders of the night sk...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This volume collects both essays and fictional material around two core topics in the long career of the Serbian writer, essayist, researcher, publisher and translator. The first topic - first contact - is chiefly represented by his comprehensive ess...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:From the author of 'Celestial Sleuth' (2014), yet more mysteries in art, history, and literature are solved by calculating phases of the Moon, determining the positions of the planets and stars, and identifying celestial objects in paintings. In addi...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This book is a distinctively original biography of Galileo Galilei, probably the last eclectic genius of the Italian Renaissance, who was not only one of the greatest scientists ever, but also a philosopher, a theologian, and a man of great literary,...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:The flight of Gemini 4 in June 1965 was conducted barely four years after the first Americans flew in space. It was a bold step by NASA to accomplish the first American spacewalk and to extend the U.S. flight duration record to four days. This would ...