Solar system: the Sun & planets books

Revised and updated, this new edition of a geological guide to the outer solar system includes results and close-up...  Read More >>

Describes historical (pre-1950) theories about solar system and illustrates why they became unacceptable. This book...  Read More >>

Describes historical (pre-1950) theories about solar system and illustrates why they became unacceptable. This book...  Read More >>

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This volume explores one of the most mysterious bodies of the Solar System. The largest satellite of the giant planet...  Read More >>

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Although transits of planets across the Sun are rare (only Mercury and Venus orbit the Sun closer than us, and so...  Read More >>

The conference lasted for one week, the first three days dealing mainly with the non-sleeping stars, from Asteroseismology...  Read More >>

An up-to-date progress report on the current status of solar-terrestrial relation studies with an emphasis on observations...  Read More >>

This book arises from the significant quantity of original results in the field of impact spectropolarimetry, mainly...  Read More >>

The qualitatively simple two-phase corona, with polar coronal holes expanding into the high-speed solar wind, and...  Read More >>

An up-to-date progress report on the current status of solar-terrestrial relation studies with an emphasis on observations...  Read More >>

Novel instruments for high-precision imaging polarimetry have opened new possibilities, not only for diagnostics...  Read More >>

Presents the myths and legends associated with solar and lunar eclipses through the ages, the mechanisms governing...  Read More >>

Physics of Planetary Rings describes striking structures of the planetary rings of Saturn, Uranus, Jupiter, and...  Read More >>

This text covers the ninth conference on solar wind, which aimed to reflect the importance of the synergistic interaction...  Read More >>

The theoretical problem of the formation of the Solar System, and hence of other planetary systems, was tackled...  Read More >>

NASA's Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) was launched on August 25, 1997, carrying six high-resolution spectrometers...  Read More >>

The theoretical problem of the formation of the Solar System, and hence of other planetary systems, was tackled...  Read More >>

This collection of 145 wonderful photos--80 in full color--allows readers to see one of the most extraordinary journeys...  Read More >>

Since the early 1990's, a large number of new data sets have become available as a result of both the highly successful...  Read More >>

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The Quest To Discover Life Beyond Earth. ""The 'dreams' that I write of are not the usual ones, the images that...  Read More >>

This book contains the proceedings of the Summerschool and Workshop Motions in the Solar Atmosphere held from September...  Read More >>