Nearest Star

The Surprising Science of our Sun

Leon Golub, Jay M. Pasachoff

268 pages, parution le 03/12/2002

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Résumé

"Unlike the myriad points of light we gaze at in the night sky, our nearest star allows us to study the wonders of stellar workings at blindingly close range - from a mere 93 million miles away. And what do we see? In this book, two of the world's leading solar scientists unfold all that history and science - from the first cursory observations to the measurements obtained by the latest state-of-the-art instruments on the ground and in space - have revealed about the Sun.
Following the path of science from the very center of this 380,000,000,000,000,000,000-megawatt furnace to its explosive surface, Nearest Star invites readers into an open-ended narrative of discovery about what we know about the Sun and how we have learned it."

Contents

1 Introduction
2 The Once and Future Sun
3 What We See
4 What We Don't See
5 Eclipses
6 Space Missions
7 Between Fire and Ice
8 Space Weather
Bibliography
Glossary
Acknowledgments
Illustration Credits

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Harvard University Press
Auteur(s)	Leon Golub, Jay M. Pasachoff
Parution	03/12/2002
Nb. de pages	268
Format	15,5 x 23,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	480g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780674010062
ISBN13	978-0-674-01006-2