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The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number
From the author of The Accelerating Universe comes a thought-provoking look at phi or "The Golden Ratio," discovered by Euclid more than two thousand years ago, examining the …
Why?: What Makes Us Curious
Astrophysicist and author Mario Livio investigates perhaps the most human of all our characteristics--curiosity--in this "lively, expert, and definitely not dumbed-down account" …
The Hubble Deep Field
The Hubble Deep Field (HDF) is the deepest optical image of the Universe ever obtained. It is the result of a 150-orbit observing programme with the Hubble Space Telescope. It …
The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved
Traces the four-thousand-year-old mathematical effort to discover and define the laws of symmetry in nature and the arts, citing the achievements of doomed geniuses Niels Henrick …
The Accelerating Universe
Advance Praise for The Accelerating Universe""""The Accelerating Universe"" is not only an informative book about modern cosmology. It is rich storytelling and, above all, a …
The Analysis of Emission Lines
What can emission lines tell us about an astrophysical object? A workshop at the Space Telescope Science Institute was dedicated to address just this question – for a host of …
Massive Stars
This collection of papers from the Space Telescope Science Institute Symposium on massive stars addresses the many aspects of astrophysics in which these stars play an important …
Le Nombre d''or
Le nombre d’or, proportion géométrique simple définie par Euclide, hante depuis plusieurs siècles les mathématiciens, les esthètes et les amateurs d’ésotérisme. À les en croire, on …
Is Earth Exceptional?
A New York Times-bestselling astrophysicist and a Nobel laureate describe the quest to discover how and where the universe breathed life into matter For a long time, scientists …
Astrophysics of Life
Astrobiology is one of the hottest areas of current research, reflecting not only impressive advances in the understanding of the origin of life but also the discovery of over 100 …
Decade of Extrasolar Planets around Normal Stars
Humans have long thought that planetary systems similar to our own should exist around stars other than the Sun, yet the search for planets outside our Solar System has had a …
Galilej i otritsateli nauki
Istorija otkrytij Galileja v kontekste sovremennosti;Formula uspekha uchenogo, proverennaja vekami: originalnoe myshlenie, nabljudenija i eksperimenty, rasprostranenie poluchennogo …