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241) Cosmos Issue 96
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This is Issue 96 of Cosmos, a quarterly science magazine. Produced by The Royal Institution of Australia, Cosmos aims to inspire curiosity in 'The Science of Everything' and make the world of science accessible to everyone.
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[2014]
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These 18 lavishly illustrated lectures that take you from our neighborhood of the solar system to the farthest reaches of space and time. Your guide is Professor David M. Meyer, an award-winning teacher, popular public speaker, and distinguished astronomer at Northwestern University.
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[1994]
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"Ever since Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity burst upon the world in 1915 some of the most brilliant minds of our century have sought to decipher the mysteries bequeathed by that theory, a legacy so unthinkable in some respects that even Einstein himself rejected them." "Which of these bizarre phenomena, if any, can really exist in our universe? Black holes, down which anything can fall but from which nothing can return; wormholes, short...
247) Terahertz astronomy
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[2015]
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A Powerful Window into Cosmic EvolutionTerahertz (THz) observations of interstellar atoms, molecules, and dust serve as powerful probes of the conditions within the interstellar medium that permeates our galaxy, providing insights into the origins of stars, planets, galaxies, and the Universe. Taking a cross-disciplinary approach to the subject, Te.
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[2023]
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"For fans of the popular and award-winning Netflix movie Don't Look Up, a prescient, rediscovered speculative novel about how a small English village prepares for the end of the world. Edgar Hopkins is a retired math teacher in his mid-fifties with a strong sense of self-importance, whose greatest pride in life is winning poultry breeding contests. When not meticulously caring for his Bantam, Edgar is an active member of the British Lunar Society....
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"We have the impression that the solar system is perfectly regular like a clock, or a planetarium instrument. On a short timescale it is. But, seen in a longer perspective, the planets, and their satellites, have exciting lives, full of events - for example, did you know that Saturn's moon, Titan, boasts lakes which contain liquid methane surrounded by soaring hills and valleys, exactly as the earth did before life evolved on our fragile planet? Or...
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In Astronomy: Cool Women in Space, young readers will be inspired by stories of women who have made great strides in a field that takes courage, persistence, and creativity to pursue. Most people have heard of Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking, but have you heard of Maria Mitchell or Caroline Herschel? For many decades, female astronomers have been defining the field by making discoveries that changed the human relationship with space. Astronomy: Cool...
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Dieses Buch enthüllt die letzten großen Geheimnisse des Roten Planeten: Eine uralte menschliche Zivilisation war schon einmal auf dem Mars. In einer Zeit, in der wir beginnen, selbst (wieder) Raumsonden zum Mars zu schicken, stellen wir fest, dass allem Anschein nach ein zweites verborgenes Raumfahrtprogramm läuft, das uns verheimlicht wird. Während wir unentwegt Beweise für flüssiges Wasser, Spuren von Vegetation, Fossilien und biologisches...
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The Ptolemaic system of the universe, with the earth at the center, had held sway since antiquity as authoritative in philosophy, science, and church teaching. Following his observations of the heavenly bodies, Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) abandoned the geocentric system for a heliocentric model, with the sun at the center. His remarkable work, On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres, stands as one of the greatest intellectual revolutions of all...
256) The Earth Gazers
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Only twenty-four people have seen the whole earth. The most beautiful and influential photographs ever made were taken, almost as an afterthought, by the astronauts of the Apollo space program from the moon. They inspired a generation of scientists and environmentalists to think more seriously about our responsibility for this tiny oasis in space, this "blue marble" falling through empty darkness.
The Earth Gazers is a book about the long road to...
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In den vergangenen Jahrzehnten, genauer gesagt Jahrhunderten, wurde viel von "Phänomenen", "Mysterien" oder "Weltenrätseln" gesprochen. Bereits seit Jahrhunderten wird die Welt von Spukerscheinungen heimgesucht, und seit jeher fragt sich der Mensch, ob es ein Weiterleben nach dem Tod gibt und ob die Seele eine gewisse Zeit nach dem Tod wieder auf die Erde zurückkehren müsse.
Seit Plato die Behauptung aufstellte, dass es in unserer Vorzeit im Atlantischen...
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The author insists that our understanding of the World doesn't have to be based on mathematical formulas, but on deep understanding of the Physical processes of the Universe.
He reveals how the correct understanding of what is a single dimension leads to understanding of the entire Universe.
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100 preguntas que permiten hacer una exploración exhaustiva y sorprendente por la inmensidad del universo.
¿Cómo nació el universo? ¿Qué tamaño tiene? ¿Cómo será su final? ¿Habrá alguien más, allí fuera? En este libro visitaremos objetos tan espectaculares como estrellas de neutrones y agujeros negros. Entenderemos cómo vive, y cómo muere, una estrella, cómo se forman los planetas, y qué los convierte en habitables. Viajaremos en...
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In 1957, as Americans obsessed over the launch of the Soviet Sputnik satellite, another less noticed space-based scientific revolution was taking off. That year, astrophysicists solved a centuries-old quest for the origins of the elements, from carbon to uranium. The answer they found wasn't on Earth, but in the stars. Their research showed that we are literally stardust. The year also marked the first conference that considered the origin of life...
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