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The Science of Interstellar

Interstellar, from acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan, takes us on a fantastic voyage far beyond our solar system. Yet in The Science ...

The Fabric of the Cosmos - Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality

From Brian Greene, one of the world's leading physicists and author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Elegant Universe, comes a grand to...

Endurance - My Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The veteran of four space flights and the American record holder for consecutive days spent in space, Scott Kelly has...

The Astronomy Book - Big Ideas Simply Explained

Helps to demystify the topic of astronomy with bold graphics and key quotes to illustrate over 100 of the universe's biggest ideas. From ...

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

"Until the End of Time is Brian Greene's breathtaking new exploration of the cosmos and our quest to find meaning in the face of this vas...

A Beautiful Question - Finding Nature's Deep Design

Does the universe embody beautiful ideas? Artists as well as scientists throughout human history have pondered this "beautiful question."...

Starry Messenger - Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson shines new light on the crucial f...

The Universe in a Nutshell

Stephen Hawking's phenomenal, multimillion-copy bestseller, A Brief History of Time, introduced the ideas of this brilliant theoretical p...

The Constellation Observing Atlas

Designed for anyone who wishes to learn the constellations or observe the best and brightest deep sky objects and double stars, this book...

A Brief Welcome to the Universe - A Pocket-Sized Tour

Before the Big Bang

**A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022** One of the world's most celebrated cosmologists presents her breakthrough explanation of our ...

Welcome to the Universe in 3D - A Visual Tour

"If you go out and simply look up, everything - from the Moon to the planets to the stars to the band of the Milky Way - appears to be pa...

Duplex Moon Atlas - The Next Generation Lunar Atlas

Der Duplex Moon Atlas ist das ultimative Werkzeug für die Beobachtung des Mondes. Das neuartige Konzept vereint einzigartige Merkmale: . ...

Gravitation

First published in 1973, Gravitation is a landmark graduate-level textbook that presents Einstein's general theory of relativity and offe...

What are the Stars?

The outstanding question in astronomy at the turn of the twentieth century was: What are the stars and why are they as they are? In this ...

The Hatfield Lunar Atlas - Digitally Re-Mastered Edition

"The Hatfield Lunar Atlas" has become an amateur lunar observer's bible since it was first published in 1968. A major update of the atlas...

Spacetime and Geometry - An Introduction to General Relativity

Spacetime and Geometry is an introductory textbook on general relativity, specifically aimed at students. Using a lucid style, Carroll fi...

Starry Messenger - Cosmic Perspectives on Civilisation

Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson, bestselling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, ...

Interstellar - The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future Beyond Earth

'The 'Enfant terrible' of astrophysics . . . Loeb has a joy in conjecture and an omnivorous spirit of inquiry that are more reminiscent o...

How Apollo Flew to the Moon

Stung by the pioneering space successes of the Soviet Union - in particular, Gagarin being the first man in space, the United States gath...

An Introduction to Black Holes, Information and The String Theory Revolution - The Holographic Universe

- A unique exposition of the foundations of the quantum theory of black holes including the impact of string theory, the idea of black ho...

Starry Messenger - Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization

New York Times Bestseller Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson shines new light on the crucial f...

Constellations - The Story of Space Told Through the 88 Known Star Patterns in the Night Sky

"A visual guide to all 88 constellations in our night sky"--

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Astrophysics of Exoplanetary Atmospheres - 2nd Advanced School on Exoplanetary Science

In this book, renowned scientists describe the complexity of exoplanetary atmospheres and all of the observational techniques that are em...

The Dynamic Sun - Proceedings of the Summerschool and Workshop held at the Solar Observatory, Kanzelhöhe, Kärnten, Austria, August 30-September 10, 1999

Our Sun is the nearest star and thus an ideal laboratory to study dynamic processes which are related to solar terrestrial physics. The t...

Life in the Universe - From the Miller Experiment to the Search for Life on other Worlds

closetoStockholm,StanleyMillergavetheopeninglectureofaconferenceontheMol- ularEvolutionofLife. OnapictureItook,asaco-arrangeroftheseevent...

Hayabusa2 - Revealing the Evolution of C-Type Asteroid Ryugu

In December 2014, Hayabusa2 started its journey to 162173 Ryugu, a C-type asteroid likely to be primordial, thereby making this a voyage ...

Faint Objects and How to Observe Them

Faint Objects and How to Observe Them is for visual observers who are equipped with a 10-inch or larger astronomical telescope and who wa...

Globular Clusters - Guides to Galaxies - Proceedings of the Joint ESO-FONDAP Workshop on Globular Clusters held in Concepción, Chile, 6-10 March 2006

The idea to hold a workshop on globular clusters in Concepcion emerged during 2005 out of a variety of circumstances. Four years had pass...

The Hunt for Alien Life - A Wider Perspective

Astronomer Peter Linde takes the reader through the story of the search for extraterrestrial life in a captivating and thought-provoking ...

Pocket Nature Series: Stargazing - Contemplate the Cosmos to Find Inner Peace

"A guide to the night sky with meditations inspired by stars and space"--

The Universe in a Box - A New Cosmic History

Will we ever truly understand the universe? This is the story of the technologies that allow us to look up, to learn and to discover our ...

The Bioethics of Space Exploration

The Bioethics of Space Exploration provides a comprehensive discussion of the possible bioethical issues and challenges that may arise wh...

Reviews in Frontiers of Modern Astrophysics - From Space Debris to Cosmology

This book presents a collection of focused review papers on the advances in topics in modern astronomy, astrophysics, cosmology and plane...

The Universe Today - Our Current Understanding and How It Was Achieved

Starting out from humankind's earliest ideas about the cosmos, this book gives the reader a clear overview of our current understanding o...

Sky Quality Map Europe - Light Pollution & Dark Sky Map - Star Light Preserves and Star Party Sites

Sky Quality Map Europe is a comprehensive information source for astronomy enthusiasts who want to find the best dark sky sites across th...

Merz Telescopes - A global heritage worth preserving

This book comprises a fascinating collection of contributions on the Merz telescopes in Italy that collectively offer the first survey on...

Self-Organized Criticality in Astrophysics - The Statistics of Nonlinear Processes in the Universe

Markus Aschwanden introduces the concept of self-organized criticality (SOC) and shows that due to its universality and ubiquity it is a ...

Handbook of Practical Astronomy

With amateurs, students, and teachers of astronomy in high schools and colleges particularly in mind, the Handbook of Practical Astronomy...

Astronomy - A Visual Guide

Take a look through the lens and discover the beauty and science of the magnificent night sky - and beyond! This stunningly-illustrated s...

Titan Unveiled - Saturn's Mysterious Moon Explored

"A great book for anyone wanting to know what it's like to be on the front lines of a mission to perhaps the most fascinating planetary b...

Hawking: The Man, the Genius, and the Theory of Everything - The Man, the Genius, and the Theory of Everything

A biography of Stephen Hawking, addressing many facets of Hawking's life and relating them to his scientific breakthroughs.

Art of the Cosmos - Visions from the Frontier of Deep Space Exploration

This book is a gallery of human accomplishment that celebrates the scientists and engineers who push civilization--including the ways tha...

The Short Story of the Universe - A Pocket Guide to the History, Structure, Theories and Building Blocks of the Cosmos

Tauchen Sie ein in die unendlichen Weiten des Universums! Dieses Buch behandelt 130 Schlüsselkomponenten, aus denen sich unser Universum ...

Theory of Orbits - Volume 1: Integrable Systems and Non-perturbative Methods

Half a century ago, S. Chandrasekhar wrote these words in the preface to his l celebrated and successful book: In this monograph an attem...

Astrophysics - Decoding the Stars

ASTROPHYSICS This is a balanced textbook presenting the theory and observations of stars and their evolution--a cornerstone of Astrophysi...

Modern General Relativity - Black Holes, Gravitational Waves, and Cosmology

Introduces the physics of general relativity in relation to modern topics such as gamma-ray bursts, black holes, and gravitational waves.

An Introduction to Astrobiology

This updated third edition explores the origin and nature of life, habitable environments in our solar system and exoplanet discoveries.

The Herschel Objects and How to Observe Them

Amateur astronomers ¿ particularly deep-sky observers ¿ are always on the lookout for new observing challenges. The Herschel Objects, and...

Neptune - The planet, rings and satellites

Like the movie "Apollo 13" and the book on which it was based, Neptune: The Planets, Rings and Satellites tells the real story of the Voy...

Supernova Explosions

Targeting advanced students of astronomy and physics, as well as astronomers and physicists contemplating research on supernovae or relat...

Astrophysics of Neutron Stars

The existence of neutron stars was not only a brilliant theoretical prediction, but also one of the most unexpected and astonishing disco...

The EXODUS Incident - A Scientific Novel

In the near future, Earth is suffering from climate change, famines, and fundamentalism. A global nuclear war is imminent. Interstellar p...

The Physics and Astrophysics of Neutron Stars

This book summarizes the recent progress in the physics and astrophysics of neutron stars and, most importantly, it identifies and develo...

Mysteries of Mars

This book introduces the reader to the wonders of Mars, covering all aspects from our past perceptions of the planet through to the lates...

The History of Modern Astronomy in Japan

This book considers the history of modern astronomy and astrophysics in Japan by comparing with the development of astrophysics in wester...

My Life in Space Exploration

This book tells the inside story of Germany's first contributions to space research by experiments with artificial plasma clouds in space...

From the Sun to the Stars

The book begins at the Sun then travels through the solar system to see the stars, how they work, and ultimately what they mean to us. Th...