Astronomical observation: observatories, equipment & methods books

There are stories of Einstein’s stubbornness leading him to reject a correct interpretation of an experiment and...  Read More >>

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Music and Science in the Age of Galileo features twelve new essays by leading specialists in the fields of musicology,...  Read More >>

Includes several studies involving astronauts and cosmonauts; and discusses the field of space tourism. This book...  Read More >>

The conference 'Chaos in Astronomy' was held in Athens on 17-20 September 2007. This book contains edited refereed...  Read More >>

The Workshop “Science with the VLT in the ELT Era” held in Garching from 8th to 12th October 2007 was organised...  Read More >>

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) may have the capability to investigate - and answer - some of the most...  Read More >>

Building an astronomical telescope offers the amateur astronomer an exciting challenge, with the possibility of...  Read More >>

The emphasis on white dwarf stars and cosmology arise from the advances in cosmological and galactic structure research...  Read More >>

Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory is quite an interesting place for historians: several changes of nationality...  Read More >>

An account of the evolution of millimeter-wave astronomy at the US National Radio Astronomy Observatory. It recounts...  Read More >>

The rapidity with which knowledge changes makes much of past science obsolete, and often just wrong, from the present's...  Read More >>

In late 2003 I spent two fruitful and enjoyable months in the Astronomy Department at the University of Washington...  Read More >>

Oftentimes, however, the supermassive black holes that lie at the centers of AGN are cocooned in gas and dust that...  Read More >>

Proceedings of the International Conference on Light Pollution, La Serena, Chile, held 5-7 March 2002  Read More >>

The Sun and stars rotate in di?erent ways and at di?erent velocity rates. The closest star to our Earth, the Sun,...  Read More >>

Studies of stellar formation in galaxies have a profound impact on our understanding of the present and the early...  Read More >>

This book deals with the fundamentals of stellar interferometry with emphasis on aperture synthesis using sparse...  Read More >>

Modern astrophysics is a mature science that has evolved from its early phase of discovery and classification to...  Read More >>

Selected papers from the Fourth Meeting on Celestial Mechanics, CELMEC IV San Martino al Cimino (Italy), 11-16 September...  Read More >>

This book recounts results obtained via the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) on comets, in the close environment...  Read More >>

During the past several years, research teams around the world have developed astrophysics-relevant utilizing high...  Read More >>

yet at the same time the ultraviolet (UV) part of the solar spectrum may damage DNA and human tissue, solar flares...  Read More >>

Deep Impact, or at least part of the flight system, is designed to crash into comet 9P/Tempel 1. This bold mission...  Read More >>