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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
What Is The Nature Of Space And Time? How Do We Fit Within The Universe? How Does The Universe Fit Within Us? Today, Few Of Us Have Time To Contemplate The Cosmos. So Astrophysicist Neil Degrasse Tyso...n Brings The Universe Down To Earth Succinctly And Clearly, In Tasty Chapters Consumable Anytime And Anywhere In Your Busy Day. While You Wait For Your Morning Coffee To Brew, For The Bus, The Train, Or A Plane To Arrive, Astrophysics For People In A Hurry Will Reveal Just What You Need To Be Fluent And Ready For The Next Cosmic Headlines: From The Big Bang To Black Holes, From Quarks To Quantum Mechanics, And From The Search For Planets To The Search For Life In The Universe. The Greatest Story Ever Told -- On Earth As In The Heavens -- Let There Be Light -- Between The Galaxies -- Dark Matter -- Dark Energy -- The Cosmos On The Table -- On Being Round -- Invisible Light -- Between The Planets -- Exoplanet Earth -- Reflections On The Cosmic Perspective. Neil Degrasse Tyson. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.
Astrophysics for Young People in a Hurry
America's Most Celebrated Astrophysicist Invites Young Readers To Explore The Mysteries Of The Universe.
The Physics Book: From the Big Bang to Quantum Resurrection, 250 Milestones in the History of Physics
Following the hugely successful The Science Book and The Math Book comes a richly illustrated chronology of physics, containing 250 short, entertaining, and thought-provoking entries. In addition... to exploring such engaging topics as dark energy, parallel universes, the Doppler effect, the God particle, and Maxwell's demon, the book's timeline extends back billions of years to the hypothetical Big Bang and forward trillions of years to a time of “quantum resurrection.” Like the previous titles in this series, The Physics Book helps readers gain an understanding of major concepts without getting bogged down in complex details.
Astronomy For Dummies
A Beginner's Guide To Astronomy Features Information About The Solar System As Well As Star Maps And A Monthly Guide On Locating The Planets In The Sky. Pt. I: Stalking The Cosmos. Seeing The Light: T...he Art And Science Of Astronomy -- Join The Crowd: Skywatching Activities And Resources -- The Way You Watch Tonight: Terrific Tools For Observing The Skies -- Just Passing Through: Meteors, Comets, And Artificial Satellites -- Pt. Ii: Going Once Around The Solar System. A Matched Pair: Earth And Its Moon -- Earth's Near Neighbors: Mercury, Venus, And Mars -- Rock On: The Asteroid Belt And Near-earth Objects -- Great Balls Of Gas: Jupiter And Saturn -- Far Out! Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, And Beyond -- Pt. Iii: Meeting Old Sol And Other Stars. The Sun: Star Of The Earth -- Taking A Trip To The Stars -- Galaxies: The Milky Way And Beyond -- Digging Into Black Holes And Quasars -- Pt. Iv: Pondering The Remarkable Universe. Is Anybody Out There? Seti And Planets Of Other Suns -- Delving Into Dark Matter And Antimatter -- The Big Bang And The Evolution Of The Universe -- Pt. V: The Part Of Tens. Ten Strange Facts About Astronomy And Space -- Ten Common Errors About Astronomy And Space -- Pt. Vi: Appendixes: Finding The Planets: 2006 To 2010 ; Star Maps. By Stephen P. Maran. Includes Index.
An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics
An Introduction To Modern Astrophysics, Second Edition Has Been Thoroughly Revised To Reflect The Dramatic Changes And Advancements In Astrophysics That Have Occurred Over The Past Decade. The Second ...Edition Of This Market-leading Book Has Been Updated To Include The Latest Results From Relevant Fields Of Astrophysics And Advances In Our Theoretical Understanding Of Astrophysical Phenomena.^ The Tools Of Astronomy: The Celestial Sphere, Celestial Mechanics, The Continuous Spectrum Of Light, The Theory Of Special Relativity, The Interaction Of Light And Matter, Telescopes; The Nature Of Stars: Binary Systems And Stellar Parameters, The Classification Of Stellar Spectra, Stellar Atmospheres, The Interiors Of Stars, The Sun, The Process Of Star Formation, Post-main-sequence Stellar Evolution, Stellar Pulsation, Supernovae, The Degenerate Remnants Of Stars, Black Holes, Close Binary Star Systems; Planetary Systems: Physical Processes In The Solar System, The Terrestrial Planets, The Jovian Worlds, Minor Bodies Of The Solar System, The Formation Of Planetary Systems; Galaxies And The Universe: The Milky Way Galaxy, The Nature Of Galaxies, Galactic Evolution, The Structure Of The Universe, Active Galaxies, Cosmology, The Early Universe; Astronomical And Physical Constants, Unit Conversions Between Si And Cgs, Solar System Data, The Constellations, The Brightest Stars,^ The Nearest Stars, Stellar Data, The Messier Catalog, Constants, A Constants Module For Fortran 95 (available As A C++ Header File), Orbits, A Planetary Orbit Code (available As Fortran 95 And C++ Command Line Versions, And Windows Gui), Twostars, A Binary Star Code (generates Synthetic Light And Radial Velocity Curves; Available As Fortran 95 And C++ Command Line Versions, And Windows Gui), Statstar, A Stellar Structure Code (available As Fortran 95 And C++ Command Line Versions, And Windows Gui), Statstar, Stellar Models, Galaxy, A Tidal Interaction Code (available As Java), Wmap Data. For All Readers Interested In Morden Astrophysics.--amazon.com. I The Tools Of Astronomy 1 -- 1 The Celestial Sphere 2 -- 1.1 The Greek Tradition 2 -- 1.2 The Copernican Revolution 5 -- 1.3 Positions On The Celestial Sphere 8 -- 1.4 Physics And Astronomy 19 -- 2 Celestial Mechanics 23 -- 2.1 Elliptical Orbits 23 -- 2.2 Newtonian Mechanics 29 -- 2.3 Kepler's Laws Derived 39 -- 2.4 The Virial Theorem 50 -- 3 The Continuous Spectrum Of Light 57 -- 3.1 Stellar Parallax 57 -- 3.2 The Magnitude Scale 60 -- 3.3 The Wave Nature Of Light 63 -- 3.4 Blackbody Radiation 68 -- 3.5 The Quantization Of Energy 71 -- 3.6 The Color Index 75 -- 4 The Theory Of Special Relativity 84 -- 4.1 The Failure Of The Galilean Transformations 84 -- 4.2 The Lorentz Transformations 87 -- 4.3 Time And Space In Special Relativity 92 -- 4.4 Relativistic Momentum And Energy 102 -- 5 The Interaction Of Light And Matter 111 -- 5.1 Spectral Lines 111 -- 5.2 Photons 116 -- 5.3 The Bohr Model Of The Atom 119 -- 5.4 Quantum Mechanics And Wave-particle Duality 127 -- 6 Telescopes 141 -- 6.1 Basic Optics 141 -- 6.2 Optical Telescopes 154 -- 6.3 Radio Telescopes 161 -- 6.4 Infrared, Ultraviolet, X-ray, And Gamma-ray Astronomy 167 -- 6.5 All-sky Surveys And Virtual Observatories 170 -- Ii The Nature Of Stars 179 -- 7 Binary Systems And Stellar Parameters 180 -- 7.1 The Classification Of Binary Stars 180 -- 7.2 Mass Determination Using Visual Binaries 183 -- 7.3 Eclipsing, Spectroscopic Binaries 186 -- 7.4 The Search For Extrasolar Planets 195 -- 8 The Classification Of Stellar Spectra 202 -- 8.1 The Formation Of Spectral Lines 202 -- 8.2 The Hertzsprung-russell Diagram 219 -- 9 Stellar Atmospheres 231 -- 9.1 The Description Of The Radiation Field 231 -- 9.2 Stellar Opacity 238 -- 9.3 Radiative Transfer 251 -- 9.4 The Transfer Equation 255 -- 9.5 The Profiles Of Spectral Lines 267 -- 10 The Interiors Of Stars 284 -- 10.1 Hydrostatic Equilibrium 284 -- 10.2 Pressure Equation Of State 288 -- 10.3 Stellar Energy Sources 296 -- 10.4 Energy Transport And Thermodynamics 315 -- 10.5 Stellar Model Building 329 -- 10.6 The Main Sequence 340 -- 11 The Sun 349 -- 11.1 The Solar Interior 349 -- 11.2 The Solar Atmosphere 360 -- 11.3 The Solar Cycle 381 -- 12 The Interstellar Medium And Star Formation 398 -- 12.1 Interstellar Dust And Gas 398 -- 12.2 The Formation Of Protostars 412 -- 12.3 Pre-main-sequence Evolution 425 -- 13 Main Sequence And Post-main-sequence Stellar Evolution 446 -- 13.1 Evolution On The Main Sequence 446 -- 13.2 Late Stages Of Stellar Evolution 457 -- 13.3 Stellar Clusters 474 -- 14 Stellar Pulsation 483 -- 14.1 Observations Of Pulsating Stars 483 -- 14.2 The Physics Of Stellar Pulsation 491 -- 14.3 Modeling Stellar Pulsation 499 -- 14.4 Nonradial Stellar Pulsation 503 -- 14.5 Helioseismology And Asteroseismology 509 -- 15 The Fate Of Massive Stars 518 -- 15.1 Post-main-sequence Evolution Of Massive Stars 518 -- 15.2 The Classification Of Supernovae 524 -- 15.3 Core-collapse Supernovae 529 -- 15.4 Gamma-ray Bursts 543 -- 15.5 Cosmic Rays 550 -- 16 The Degenerate Remnants Of Stars 557 -- 16.1 The Discovery Of Sirius B 557 -- 16.2 White Dwarfs 559 -- 16.3 The Physics Of Degenerate Matter 563 -- 16.4 The Chandrasekhar Limit 569 -- 16.5 The Cooling Of White Dwarfs 572 -- 16.6 Neutron Stars 578 -- 16.7 Pulsars 586 -- 17 General Relativity And Black Holes 609 -- 17.1 The General Theory Of Relativity 609 -- 17.2 Intervals And Geodesics 622 -- 17.3 Black Holes 633 -- 18 Close Binary Star Systems 653 -- 18.1 Gravity In A Close Binary Star System 653 -- 18.2 Accretion Disks 661 -- 18.3 A Survey Of Interacting Binary Systems 668 -- 18.4 White Dwarfs In Semidetached Binaries 673 -- 18.5 Type Ia Supernovae 686 -- 18.6 Neutron Stars And Black Holes In Binaries 689 -- Iii The Solar System 713 -- 19 Physical Processes In The Solar System 714 -- 19.1 A Brief Survey 714 -- 19.2 Tidal Forces 719 -- 19.3 The Physics Of Atmospheres 724 -- 20 The Terrestrial Planets 737 -- 20.1 Mercury 737 -- 20.2 Venus 740 -- 20.3 Earth 745 -- 20.4 The Moon 754 -- 20.5 Mars 762 -- 21 The Realms Of The Giant Planets 775 -- 21.1 The Giant Worlds 775 -- 21.2 The Moons Of The Giants 790 -- 21.3 Planetary Ring Systems 801 -- 22 Minor Bodies Of The Solar System 813 -- 22.1 Pluto And Charon 813 -- 22.2 Comets And Kuiper Belt Objects 816 -- 22.3 Asteroids 830 -- 22.4 Meteorites 838 -- 23 Formation Of Planetary Systems 848 -- 23.1 Characteristics Of Extrasolar Planetary Systems 848 -- 23.2 Planetary System Formation And Evolution 857 -- Iv Galaxies And The Universe 873 -- 24 The Milky Way Galaxy 874 -- 24.1 Counting The Stars In The Sky 874 -- 24.2 The Morphology Of The Galaxy 881 -- 24.3 The Kinematics Of The Milky Way 898 -- 24.4 The Galactic Center 922 -- 25 The Nature Of Galaxies 940 -- 25.1 The Hubble Sequence 940 -- 25.2 Spiral And Irregular Galaxies 948 -- 25.3 Spiral Structure 964 -- 25.4 Elliptical Galaxies 983 -- 26 Galactic Evolution 999 -- 26.1 Interactions Of Galaxies 999 -- 26.2 The Formation Of Galaxies 1016 -- 27 The Structure Of The Universe 1038 -- 27.1 The Extragalactic Distance Scale 1038 -- 27.2 The Expansion Of The Universe 1052 -- 27.3 Clusters Of Galaxies 1058 -- 28 Active Galaxies 1085 -- 28.1 Observations Of Active Galaxies 1085 -- 28.2 A Unified Model Of Active Galactic Nuclei 1108 -- 28.3 Radio Lobes And Jets 1122 -- 28.4 Using Quasars To Probe The Universe 1130 -- 29 Cosmology 1144 -- 29.1 Newtonian Cosmology 1144 -- 29.2 The Cosmic Microwave Background 1162 -- 29.3 Relativistic Cosmology 1183 -- 29.4 Observational Cosmology 1199 -- 30 The Early Universe 1230 -- 30.1 The Very Early Universe And Inflation 1230 -- 30.2 The Origin Of Structure 1247 -- A Astronomical And Physical Constants -- B Unit Conversions -- C Solar System Data A-1 -- D The Constellations A-3 -- E The Brightest Stars A-5 -- F The Nearest Stars A-7 -- G Stellar Data A-9 -- H The Messier Catalog A-13 -- I Constants, A Programming Module A-16 -- J Orbit, A Planetary Orbit Code A-17 -- K Twostars, A Binary Star Code A-18 -- L Statstar, A Stellar Structure Code A-23 -- M Galaxy, A Tidal Interaction Code A-26 -- N Wmap Data A-29. Bradley W. Carroll, Dale A. Ostlie. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.
The Universe: From Flat Earth to Quasar
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Astronomy: Out of This World!
Like a Facebook for the universe, Astronomy gives every important celestial body and concept its own page, where readers can learn its behaviors, likes, and dislikes up close and personal. From the fl...ashy stars to the shadowy and strange objects that hang out like loners at the edges of the universe, no player goes unnoticed. Every profile has a hip anime-style portrait to round out the picture, but make no mistake: while the presentation is all style, the science is rock solid. The book includes a super cute poster of the solar system in the back. The universe has never been so cool.VOYAGreen's book on astronomy seems at first glance more like a Japanese-inspired comic book than a reference book, but its appearance is one of the reasons that it will make a great addition to any library. Color coding and icons guide readers through each chapter. The illustrations are bright and bold, adorning nearly every page. In addition to the great use of color, the illustrations are unique and interesting, featuring characters that will make readers smile. Overall the book is eye catching and vibrant, enabling it to hold the attention of readers at nearly every age level. The text is written in a modern tone that is both playful and educational. Each topic features bulleted items as well as a few conversationally written paragraphs that educate and entertain. With all its glitz, it is important to remember that the book is a reference work, but it does a good job in a package that is both visually appealing and engaging while still communicating information. The only fault might lie in the fact that the entire book is an exercise in personification, both in the drawings and text, as each object studied is a character and the content is often shared from its point of view using first-person narratives. This small infraction can be overlooked, however, because of the selection's ability to give readers that feeling of not wanting to put the book down, a rare treat in nonfiction. Reviewer: Dawn Talbott
Cosmos
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Asimov on Astronomy
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Astronomy: A Self-Teaching Guide
 
