Journey from the Center of the Sun

Jack B. Zirker - Collection Princeton Science Library

302 pages, parution le 01/12/2004

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Résumé

Jack Zirker takes us on an imaginary voyage from the center of the sun to its surface, showing us how sunlight is made and finally following the sun's energy to the far reaches of the solar system. Along the way, he introduces the basic processes at work in our nearest star and the exciting answers solar scientists are finding to problems that have long perplexed astronomers.

Journey from the Center of the Sun describes how theory and practice are coming together to provide a new understanding of this old star. At this moment, solar physicists are collecting the best observations ever obtained about the sun's interior and dynamic atmosphere, while a new breed of theorists is interpreting these data using computer simulations. Zirker reports on cutting-edge advances and looks at the tough questions solar physicists are beginning to crack. How can we account for the solar wind that causes the sun to lose mass at an astonishing rate? Where have all the neutrinos gone? How does the sun generate magnetic sunspots, and why does it have a sunspot cycle? What causes a solar flare to explode? How does the sun affect the earth's climate? What is a sunquake?

For the armchair astronomer or the student of astrophysics, this book provides an unusually complete picture of solar physics today.

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L'auteur - Jack B. Zirker

J. B. Zirker, former director of the National Solar Observatory, is the author of Sunquakes: Probing the Interior of the Sun (Johns Hopkins); Journey from the Center of the Sun; and Total Eclipses of the Sun.

Sommaire

List of Figures
Preface
Introduction
Getting Started
The Secret heart of the Sun
The Deep Interrior
Order and Choas: The Convection Zone
Looking Inside from the Outside
The Hot Atmosphere
The Magnetic Atmosphere
The Middle Kingdon: The Chromosphere and Transtiton Zone
Active Regions
Explosions on the Sun
The Corona and the Wind
"Like a Tea Tray in the Sky"
Solar and Stellar Cycles
The Sun and Climate
A Few Words: Where Do We Go from Here?
Notes
Glossary
Index

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Éditeur(s)	Princeton University Press
Auteur(s)	Jack B. Zirker
Collection	Princeton Science Library
Parution	01/12/2004
Nb. de pages	302
Format	14,5 x 22,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	448g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780691118482
ISBN13	978-0-691-11848-2