Astrofysik

This volume presents the results of the workshop discussions on the jet phenomenon on different astrophysical scales and covers interdisciplinary areas such as steady state winds, …

A breakout bestseller in Italy, Genesis: The Story of How Everything Began is a short, humanistic tour of the origins of the universe, Earth, and life--drawing on the latest …

'A manifesto for going off-world to Mars and beyond' TLS 'A breath-taking journey' BRUCE DAMER 'Adriana Marais combs the cosmic dust in her prospectus for all Mars adventurers' THE …

The last two subjects mentioned in the title "Wavelets" are so well established that they do not need any explanations. This conference was held at the Centre National de …

Binary systems of stars are as common as single stars. They are of fundamental importance because they allow stellar masses, radii and luminosities to be measured directly, and …

This book is about the American moon-landings – and about the doubts expressed ever since concerning the reality of these landings. Eversberg explains the best-known claims and …

Parting the Cosmic Veil describes our gradual awareness of a vast, previously concealed Universe. It is a story of expanding horizons and the discovery of invisible worlds, made …

Our first attempt to organize a Symposium on solar activity was made at the lAO General Assembly in Brighton 1970. There, at the session of Commission 10, we proposed to organize a …

A Corotating Interaction Region (CIR) is the result of the interaction of fast solar wind with slower solar wind ahead. CIRs have a very large three-dimensional ex­ tent and are …

Our familiar, but often inscrutable, star exhibits a variety of enigmatic phe- nomena that have continued to defy explanation. Our book begins with abrief account of these unsolved …