The Non-Sleeping Universe: Proceedings of two conferences on: ‘Stars and the ISM’ held from 24–26 November 1997 and on: ‘From Galaxies to the Horizon’ ... of the University of Porto, Portugal

This exact quantity comprises the complaints of 2 "Non-Sleeping Universe" meetings: "Stars and the ISM" and "From Galaxies to the Horizon". The ebook presents an summary of contemporary advancements in quite a few parts, masking a truly wide selection of spatial and temporal scales.

Im Fokus: Sonnensystem: Eine Reise durch unsere kosmische Heimat (Naturwissenschaften im Fokus) (German Edition)

Das Sonnensystem ist unsere Heimat im Weltall. Alle Planeten und Monde in ihm entstanden gemeinsam aus einer „Urwolke“, sie sind damit gewissermaßen Geschwister. Aber genau wie diese besitzen auch die Planeten ganz unterschiedliche Charaktere und Eigenschaften. Wir Menschen haben gerade erst begonnen, diese faszinierende Vielfalt zu erkunden: vom rätselhaft dichten und alten Merkur über den Treibhausplaneten Venus, den roten Mars und die Gasriesen Jupiter und Saturn mit ihren zahlreichen Trabanten bis hin zu den geheimnisvollen Eisplaneten Uranus und Neptun.

Virgin Galactic: The First Ten Years (Springer Praxis Books)

Thirty years in the past whilst Sir Richard Branson referred to as up Boeing and requested in the event that they had a spare 747, few may have envisioned the brash entrepreneur could so considerably remodel the placid enterprise of air go back and forth. yet at the present time, Branson flies airways on six continents, employs enormous quantities of jets and, in 2014, used to be predicting that his spaceship corporation – Virgin Galactic – might quickly open the distance frontier to advertisement astronauts, payload experts, scientists and area travelers.

Astronomy: The Universe at a Glance

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