Astronomie

Ein relativistischer Ansatz jenseits des Standardmodells zur Simulation der Dunklen Materie von Scheibengalaxien

Siegfried Gantert

Akademische Arbeit aus dem Jahr 2023 im Fachbereich Physik - Astronomie, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In dieser Arbeit werden die bei Scheibengalaxien auftretenden Diskrepanzen zur gängigen Phys...

America's First Eclipse Chasers

Thomas Hockey

<p>In 2017, over 200 million Americans witnessed the spectacular total eclipse of the Sun, and the 2024 eclipse is expected to draw even larger crowds. In anticipation of this upcoming event...

Cosmography in the Age of Discovery and the Scientific Revolution

David Barrado Navascués

This book tells the comprehensive history of cosmography from the 15^th Century Age of Discovery onward. During this time, cosmography—a science that combined geography and...

To The Stars

Umberto Cavallaro

<p>This book is the second edition of&nbsp;<i>Women Spacefarers</i> and tells the fascinating stories of the valiant women who broke down barriers to join the space program. ...

Catalog of Unconfirmed Comets - Volume 1

Gary W. Kronk / Maik Meyer

<p>This catalog is the first in-depth investigation of comets that were reported since the 17th century, but not confirmed and subsequently lost. Volume I of this two-volume work covers obje...

Vlasteliny beskonechnosti: Kosmonavt o professii i sud'be

YUrij Baturin

This book is about space as a thousand-year dream, a guiding star and a test. Why do people seek space and what questions are they looking for answers to? How are astronauts selected and how are t...

THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond Earth

Michio Kaku

Sooner or later, people will have to look for and develop habitable worlds outside the Earth. Michio Kaku's new book is one of the first attempts to map out the greatest migration in human his...

Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon

Jeffrey Kluger

In August 1968, NASA made a bold decision: to launch the first manned spacecraft to the Moon. Just a year ago, three astronauts died in a test fire, and since then, the Apollo program has suffered...

Kosmicheskaya mifologiya: ot marsianskih atlantov do lunnogo zagovora

Anton Pervushin

"Ancient people flew into space!", "Gagarin was not the first cosmonaut!", "The Americans faked the moon landing!", "Cosmonauts met aliens and angels!". Similar hea...

Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto

David Grinspoon / Alan Stern

On July 14, 2015, an amazing event occurred. More than 4.8 billion kilometers from Earth, a small NASA spacecraft called New Horizons raced past Pluto at more than 50,000 km/h, pointed all its ins...

Einstein's Monsters: The Life and Times of Black Holes

Chris Impey

Our ideas about black holes are mostly based on popular myths and a few well-known scientific facts. Describing the history of black hole research, Chris Impey easily debunks the most common misco...

Lyudi na Lune: Glavnye otvety

Vitalij Egorov

Against the background of the technologies of the 21st century, a manned flight to the moon in the middle of the last century often seems implausible to our contemporaries and raises many question...

Belye karliki: Budushchee Vselennoy

Aleksej Levin

Before you is the first book in Russian, almost entirely devoted to the cooling relics of stars, known as white dwarfs. But the fate of turning into such inhabitants of outer space awaits almost a...

Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe

Brian Greene

Brian Green is a prominent theoretical physicist and famous popularizer of science. His books have helped many people to get acquainted with string theory and other important ideas of modern physi...

When the Earth Had Two Moons: Cannibal Planets, Icy Giants, Dirty Comets, Dreadful Orbits, and the Origins of the Night Sky

Erik Ian

In 1959, the Soviet Luna-3 station took the first photographs of the far side of the Moon. Even in poor resolution, the images stunned scientists: the reverse side looked like a huge expanse of mo...

Knocking on Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World

Lisa Randall

Mankind is on the verge of a new understanding of the world and its place in the Universe, says Lisa Randall, an authoritative American scientist, professor of physics at Harvard University, and i...

Vselennaya v voprosah i otvetah: Zadachi i testy po astronomii i kosmonavtike

Vladimir Surdin

The book contains 181 tasks, 50 questions and 319 tests with answers and solutions. The material is mostly new, but includes the most successful tasks from previous editions. In general, these are...

Astrophysics Is Easy!

Michael Inglis

<p>Astrophysics is often –with some justification – regarded as incomprehensible without the use of higher mathematics. Consequently, many amateur astronomers miss out on some of the mos...

El último horizonte

Amedeo Balbi

** PREMIO ASIMOV 2021 **Un viaje por las fronteras de la investigación astrofísica, en busca de la respuesta a las cuestiones últimas sobre nuestro universo.¿Qué sabemos del universo? Sin dud...

Conflicting Models for the Origin of Life

<p><B>Conflicting Models for the Origin of Life</B> <p><B><i>Conflicting Models for the Origin of Life</i> provides a forum to compare and contrast the ma...