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 special quantity comprises the lawsuits of 2 "Non-Sleeping Universe" meetings: "Stars and the ISM" and "From Galaxies to the Horizon". The publication presents an summary of modern advancements in quite a few parts, masking a really wide variety 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 while Sir Richard Branson known as up Boeing and requested in the event that they had a spare 747, few may have anticipated the brash entrepreneur may so extensively rework the placid enterprise of air shuttle. yet at the present time, Branson flies airways on six continents, employs countless numbers 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 house travelers.

Astronomy: The Universe at a Glance

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