Sun, Earth and Sky

2. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-387-30456-4
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 284 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 679 g

Written in a light and friendly style, this lavishly illustrated book introduces the Sun and its physics, and describes all aspects of the Sun’s interaction with us on Earth. The second edition of this book updates the popular text by providing comprehensive accounts of the most recent discoveries made by five modern solar spacecraft during the past decade. It contains a number of images never before seen in print. Breakthrough observations with the underground Sudbury Neutrino Observatory are also included. The new edition further provides modern interpretations of ozone depletion and global warming.

Zielgruppe

Popular/general

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lang, Kenneth R.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Angewandte Physik Astrophysik
• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Raumfahrt
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Angewandte Physik Geophysik
• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Kosmologie, Urknalltheorie
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Geophysik
• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Sonnensystem: Sonne und Planeten
• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Galaxien und Sterne
• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Astronomie: Allgemeines
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Geodäsie, Kartographie, Fernerkundung
• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Astrophysik
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geodäsie, Kartographie, GIS, Fernerkundung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Good Day, Sunshine.- Energizing The Sun.- Ghostlike Neutrinos.- Taking The Pulse Of The Sun.- A Magnetic Star.- An Unseen World Of Perpetual Change.- The Violent Sun.- Energizing Space.- Transforming The Earth’S Life-Sustaining Atmosphere.

Über Autor(innen)

Professor Lang has written several books about the Sun, as well as widely used reference works in astronomy and astrophysics. He has carried out radio observations of the active Sun with the Very Large Array in support of the SOHO spacecraft, teaches an extremely popular introductory course about the Sun to Tufts University students with non-scientific majors, and has served for two years as Visiting Senior Scientist in Solar Physics at NASA Headquarters.