From Dust to Stars

Norbert S Schulz

• Paperback | Engels | Springer Praxis Books | Astronomy and Planetary Sciences
• Studies of stellar formation in galaxies have a profound impact on our understanding of the present and the early universe. The book describes complex... Lees meer

High Energy Cosmic Rays

Todor Stanev

• Hardcover | Engels | Springer Praxis Books | Astronomy and Planetary Sciences
• Graduate students entering the field and high-energy astrophysicists will find this an accessible cosmic-ray manual, Easy to read for the general astr... Lees meer

Astrophysics Update

• Hardcover | Engels | Springer Praxis Books | Astronomy and Planetary Sciences
• Astrophysics Updates: is intended to serve the information needs of professional astronomers and postgraduate students about areas of astronomy, astro... Lees meer

Stability and Chaos in Celestial Mechanics

Alessandra Celletti

• Hardcover | Engels | Springer Praxis Books | Astronomy and Planetary Sciences
• The last decades have marked the beginning of a new era in Celestial Mech- ics. The challenges came from several di?erent directions. The stability th... Lees meer

Black Hole Astrophysics

David L Meier

• Hardcover | Engels | Springer Praxis Books | Astronomy and Planetary Sciences
• As a result of significant research over the past 20 years, black holes are now linked to some of the most spectacular and exciting phenomena in the U... Lees meer

The Road to Galaxy Formation

William C Keel

• Paperback | Engels | Springer Praxis Books | Astronomy and Planetary Sciences
• The formation of galaxies is one of the greatest puzzles in astronomy, the solution is shrouded in the depths of space and time, but has profound impl... Lees meer

Cosmology and Particle Astrophysics

Lars Bergström, Ariel Goobar

• Paperback | Engels | Springer Praxis Books | Astronomy and Planetary Sciences
• Beginning with some basic facts about the observable universe the authors consider in successive chapters the complete range of topics that make up a ... Lees meer

Planetary Geology

• Hardcover | Engels | Springer Praxis Books | Astronomy and Planetary Sciences
• This book provides an up-to-date interdisciplinary geoscience-focused overview of solid solar system bodies and their evolution, based on the comparat... Lees meer

Electronic Imaging in Astronomy

Ian S McLean

• Paperback | Engels | Springer Praxis Books | Astronomy and Planetary Sciences
• The second edition of Electronic Imaging in Astronomy: Detectors and Instrumentation describes the remarkable developments that have taken place in as... Lees meer

Galaxy Formation and Evolution

Hyron Spinrad

• Paperback | Engels | Springer Praxis Books | Astronomy and Planetary Sciences
• Taking the Measure of the Low-Redshift Universe.- Which Properties of Galaxies can Likely Evolve (and be Measured)?.- Observations of an Evolving Univ... Lees meer

Giant Planets of Our Solar System

Patrick Irwin

• Paperback | Engels | Springer Praxis Books | Astronomy and Planetary Sciences
• This book reviews the current state of knowledge of the atmospheres of the giant gaseous planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. The current th... Lees meer

Stability and Chaos in Celestial Mechanics

Alessandra Celletti

• Paperback | Engels | Springer Praxis Books | Astronomy and Planetary Sciences
• Order and chaos.- Numerical dynamical methods.- Kepler's problem.- The three-body problem and the Lagrangian solutions.- Rotational dynamics.- Perturb... Lees meer

Physics of the Solar Corona

Markus Aschwanden

• Paperback | Engels | Springer Praxis Books | Astronomy and Planetary Sciences
• Solar science has evolved rapidly over the past decade as the results of a new generation of solar space missions have become available. This book pro... Lees meer

Life in the Universe

Dirk Schulze-Makuch, Louis N Irwin

• Hardcover | Engels | Springer Praxis Books | Astronomy and Planetary Sciences
• Examines each of these parameters in crucial depth and makes the argument that life forms we would recognize may be more common in our solar system th... Lees meer

An Introduction to Space Robotics

Alex Ellery

• Hardcover | Engels | Astronomy and Planetary Sciences
• There is little doubt that robotic and automated systems in space will contribute considerably to the future commercialisation of the space environmen... Lees meer

Astronomical Measurement

Andy Lawrence

• Hardcover | Engels | Springer Praxis Books | Astronomy and Planetary Sciences
• This book on astronomical measurement takes a fresh approach to teaching the subject. After discussing some general principles, it follows the chain o... Lees meer

Exoplanets

• Hardcover | Engels | Springer Praxis Books | Astronomy and Planetary Sciences
• This is the first collection of review articles in one volume covering the very latest developments in exoplanet research. This edited, multi-author v... Lees meer

Mathematical Seti

Claudio Maccone

• Hardcover | Engels | Springer Praxis Books | Astronomy and Planetary Sciences
• This book introduces the Statistical Drake Equation where, from a simple product of seven positive numbers, the Drake Equation is turned into the prod... Lees meer

The Road to Galaxy Formation

William C Keel

• Hardcover | Engels | Springer Praxis Books | Astronomy and Planetary Sciences
• The formation of galaxies is one of the greatest puzzles in astronomy, the solution is shrouded in the depths of space and time, but has profound impl... Lees meer

Galaxy Formation and Evolution

Hyron Spinrad

• Hardcover | Engels | Springer Praxis Books | Astronomy and Planetary Sciences
• An Astronomical Life - Observing the Depths of the Universe" Though science as a subject can be di?cult, what has been more important for me is that i... Lees meer

Astrophysics Update 2

• Paperback | Engels | Springer Praxis Books | Astronomy and Planetary Sciences
• "Astrophysics Updates" is intended to serve the information needs of professional astronomers and postgraduate students about areas of astronomy, astr... Lees meer

Principles of Gravitational Lensing

Arthur B Congdon, Charles R Keeton

• Hardcover | Engels | Springer Praxis Books | Astronomy and Planetary Sciences
• This textbook provides an introduction to gravitational lensing, which has become an invaluable tool in modern astrophysics, with applications that ra... Lees meer

New Light on Dark Stars

Neil Reid, Suzanne Hawley

• Paperback | Engels | Springer Praxis Books | Astronomy and Planetary Sciences
• There has been very considerable progress in research into low-mass stars, brown dwarfs and extrasolar planets during the past few years, particularly... Lees meer

Spectroscopic Instrumentation

Thomas Eversberg, Klaus Vollmann

• Hardcover | Engels | Springer Praxis Books | Astronomy and Planetary Sciences
• In order to analyze the light of cosmic objects, particularly at extremely great distances, spectroscopy is the workhorse of astronomy. In the era of ... Lees meer