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Galaxy Collisions: Forging New Worlds from Cosmic Crashes |
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Категория: Естественные науки » Физико-математические науки » Астрономия, космос |
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Автор: Curtis Struck
Издательство: Springer
Год издания: 2011
isbn: 0387853707
Количество страниц: 285
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
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Galaxy collisions are the key process in building galaxies, triggering the formation of stars and the build-up of heavy elements that allow the formation of planets and solar systems. This book presents the revolutionary research advances achieved in the last decade and lucidly explains the underlying dynamical processes.
Galaxy Collisions
takes a comprehensive trip through the visually spectacular world of galaxy collisions;
investigates the interactions of stars, gas clouds, and dark matter in galaxy collisions;
uses analogies and metaphors to help comprehend the bizarre world of galaxies;
presents recent research results to enhance the understanding of galaxy formation and evolution;
includes discoveries of minor collisions within our own group of galaxies;
shows how a galaxy collision might affect a solar system, or a planet like ours
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Вниманию наблюдателей болидов |
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Категория: Естественные науки » Физико-математические науки » Астрономия, космос |
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Автор: Кулик Л.А.
Издательство: АН СССР
Год издания: 1941
Количество страниц: 33
Язык: русский
Формат: PDF (scan)
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Основная цель этого издания - получить от наблюдателей элементарные сведения о полете болида, дающие возможность грубой ориентировки площади падения. Второе издание. |
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Geographies of Mars: Seeing and Knowing the Red Planet |
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Категория: Естественные науки » Физико-математические науки » Астрономия, космос |
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Автор: Коллектив
Издательство: University Of Chicago Press
Год издания: 2010
isbn: 0226470784
Количество страниц: 265
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
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One of the first maps of Mars, published by an Italian astronomer in 1877, with its pattern of canals, fueled belief in intelligent life forms on the distant red planet—a hope that continued into the 1960s. Although the Martian canals have long since been dismissed as a famous error in the history of science, K. Maria D. Lane argues that there was nothing accidental about these early interpretations. Indeed, she argues, the construction of Mars as an incomprehensibly complex and engineered world both reflected and challenged dominant geopolitical themes during a time of major cultural, intellectual, political, and economic transition in the Western world.
Geographies of Mars telescopes in on a critical period in the development of the geographical imagination, when European imperialism was at its zenith and American expansionism had begun in earnest. Astronomers working in the new observatories of the American Southwest or in the remote heights of the South American Andes were inspired, Lane finds, by their own physical surroundings and used representations of the Earth’s arid landscapes to establish credibility for their observations of Mars. With this simple shift to the geographer’s point of view, Lane deftly explains some of the most perplexing stances on Mars taken by familiar protagonists such as Percival Lowell, Alfred Russel Wallace, and Lester Frank Ward.
A highly original exploration of geography’s spatial dimensions at the beginning of the twentieth century, Geographies of Mars offers a new view of the mapping of far-off worlds |
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Electronic Imaging in Astronomy: Detectors and Instrumentation, 2nd edition |
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Категория: Естественные науки » Физико-математические науки » Астрономия, космос |
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Автор: Ian S. McLean
Издательство: Springer
Год издания: 2010
isbn: 3642095321
Количество страниц: 552
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
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The second edition of Electronic Imaging in Astronomy: Detectors and Instrumentation describes the remarkable developments that have taken place in astronomical detectors and instrumentation in recent years – from the invention of the charge-coupled device (CCD) in 1970 to the current era of very large telescopes, such as the Keck 10-meter telescopes in Hawaii with their laser guide-star adaptive optics which rival the image quality of the Hubble Space Telescope.
Authored by one of the world’s foremost experts on the design and development of electronic imaging systems for astronomy, this book has been written on several levels to appeal to a broad readership. Mathematical expositions are designed to encourage a wider audience, especially among the growing community of amateur astronomers with small telescopes with CCD cameras. The book can be used at the college level for an introductory course on modern astronomical detectors and instruments, and as a supplement for a practical or laboratory class. |
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After the First Three Minutes: The Story of our Universe |
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Категория: Естественные науки » Физико-математические науки » Астрономия, космос |
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Автор: T.Padmanabhan
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
Год издания: 1998
isbn: 0521620392
Количество страниц: 214
Язык: english
Формат: CHM
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Think of a large ship sailing through the ocean carrying a sack of potatoes in its cargo hold. There is a potato bug, inside one of the potatoes, which is trying to understand the nature of the ocean through which the ship is moving. Sir Arthur Eddington, famous British astronomer, once compared man's search for the mysteries of the universe to the activities of the potato bug in the above example. He might have been right as far as the comparison of dimensions went; but he was completely wrong in spirit. The 'potato bugs' called more respectably astronomers and cosmologists have definitely learnt a lot about the contents and nature of the Cosmos. |
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Мир многих миров. Физики в поисках параллельных вселенных |
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Категория: Естественные науки » Физико-математические науки » Астрономия, космос |
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Автор: Виленкин Алекс
Издательство: АСТ
Год издания: 2010
isbn: 978-5-271-25401-07
Количество страниц: 303
Язык: русский
Формат: DJVU
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Все мы живем в остатках огромного взрыва, случившегося около 14 миллиардов лет тому назад и положившего начало нашей Вселенной. Однако что предшествовало этому грандиозному событию? И какова вероятность того, что помимо нашего мира где-то существуют другие? В своей популярно написанной книге физик, профессор университета Тафте (США) Алекс Виленкин знакомит читателя с последними научными достижениями в сфере космологии и излагает собственную теорию, доказывающую возможность - и, более того, вероятность - существования бесчисленных параллельных вселенных. Выводы из его гипотезы ошеломляют: за границами нашего мира раскинулось множество других миров, похожих на наш или принципиально иных, населенных невообразимыми созданиями или существами, неотличимыми от людей. Идеи Виленкина оказались настолько ясными, убедительными и в то же время революционными, что в одночасье превратили скромного кабинетного ученого в звезду популярных ток-шоу, а его книгу - в международный бестселлер, получивший колоссальный общественный резонанс.
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The Kaguya Lunar Atlas: The Moon in High Resolution |
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Категория: Естественные науки » Физико-математические науки » Астрономия, космос |
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Автор: 1441972846
Издательство: Springer
Год издания: 2011
isbn: 1441972846
Количество страниц: 174
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
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In late 2007 the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency placed the Kaguya/Selene spacecraft in orbit around the Moon. Like previous lunar orbiters, Kaguya carried scientific instruments to probe the Moon’s surface and interior. But it also had the first high-definition television camera (HDTV) sent to the Moon. Sponsored by the Japanese NHK TV network, the HDTV has amazed both scientists and the public with its magnificent views of the lunar surface. What makes the images much more engaging than standard vertical-view lunar photographs is that they were taken looking obliquely along the flight path. Thus, they show the Moon as it would be seen by an astronaut looking through a porthole window while orbiting only 100 km above the lunar surface. This is the view we all would wish to have, but are never likely to, except vicariously through the awe-inspiring Kaguya HDTV images. The remarkable Kaguya/Selene HDTV images are used here to create a new type of lunar atlas. Because of the unique perspective of the images each plate shows the surface in a manner that makes it visually appealing and scientifically understandable. Motomaro Shirao was a member of the Kaguya HDTV team and selected the targets for imaging. Charles Wood, an expert on lunar science and history, describes the pictures with text as informative as the images are beautiful.
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Extreme States of Matter: on Earth and in the Cosmos |
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Категория: Астрономия, космос, Физика |
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Автор: Vladimir E. Fortov
Издательство: Springer
Год издания: 2011
isbn: 3642164633
Количество страниц: 333
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
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With its many beautiful colour pictures, this book gives fascinating insights into the unusual forms and behaviour of matter under extremely high pressures and temperatures. These extreme states are generated, among other things, by strong shock, detonation and electric explosion waves, dense laser beams, electron and ion beams, hypersonic entry of spacecraft into dense atmospheres of planets, and in many other situations characterized by extremely high pressures and temperatures.
Written by one of the world's foremost experts on the topic, this book will inform and fascinate all scientists dealing with materials properties and physics, and also serve as an excellent introduction to plasma-, shock-wave and high-energy-density physics for students and newcomers seeking an overview |
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Titan from Cassini-Huygens |
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Категория: Естественные науки » Физико-математические науки » Астрономия, космос |
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Автор: Robert Brown, Jean Pierre Lebreton, Hunter Waite
Издательство: Springer
Год издания: 2009
isbn: 1402092148
Количество страниц: 525
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
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This book reviews our current knowledge of Saturn's largest moon Titan featuring the latest results obtained by the Cassini-Huygens mission. A global author team addresses Titan’s origin and evolution, internal structure, surface geology, the atmosphere and ionosphere as well as magnetospheric interactions. The book closes with an outlook beyond the Cassini-Huygens mission. Colorfully illustrated, this book will serve as a reference to researchers as well as an introduction for students.
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Illustrated Dictionary of Astronomy |
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Категория: Естественные науки » Физико-математические науки » Астрономия, космос |
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Автор: Jacqueline Mitton
Издательство: Cam.dge Un.ity Press
Год издания: 2008
isbn: 0521823641
Количество страниц: 404
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
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Authored by a professional astronomer and writer, this volume readily fills the need for an astronomy dictionary. Coverage encompasses named astronomical objects, terms and abbreviations most frequently encountered in astronomy, constellations, principal observatories, space missions, and biographical sketches for 70 well-known individuals in the history of the field. Written at a level accessible to the general reader, the 1,300 alphabetically arranged entries range in length from one sentence (simple definitions) to several paragraphs (entries on planets). Specialist terms and acronyms are clearly explained. Sample entries include Air shower, 719 Albert, Astronomer Royal, Degenerate star, Egg Nebula, Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, Hooker telescope, Kepler’s laws, Penumbra, and Yerkes Observatory. Many up-to-date finds are included; for example, we learn that legislation has been enacted in parts of the U.S. to protect important observatory sites from the damaging effects of unnecessary lighting in nearby cities; the highest quasar redshift measured by 2007 was 6.43; Pluto is no longer categorized as a major planet. About 300 excellent color photographs and illustrations, unusual for a moderately priced dictionary, supplement the text. Among them are 20 new star maps by distinguished illustrator Wil Tirion and photographs from various space missions and the Hubble Space Telescope. Ample see and see also references guide the reader from one topic to another; references to related dictionary entries are highlighted in color. Cambridge Illustrated Dictionary of Astronomy, notable for authoritative, up-to-date definitions supplemented by color illustrations and photographs, is highly recommended for high-school, academic, special, and public libraries. --Nancy Cannon
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