From the dust jacket: "Writing in an authoritative yet straightforward style requiring no prior knowledge of advanced mathematics or physics, Dr Davies explores the changing ideas of space and time particularly as illustrated by their application to…
The Explanatory Supplement provides a detailed description of how to perform practical astronomy or spherical astronomy. This completely revised and rewritten edition is an authoritative source on astronomical phenomena and calendars.
September 2015 Space is an incredibly hard environment to work in: weightless, airless and with daunting temperature extremes. Systems must operate reliably for years on end, with no chance of repair.
Under ESA leadership, European space industry…
From Nobel Prize-winning physicist P. J. E. Peebles, the story of cosmology from Einstein to today Modern cosmology began a century ago with Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity and his notion of a homogenous, philosophically satisfying…
Piet Smolders is een Nederlandse freelance journalist die zich opgewerkt heeft tot een erkende ruimtevaart specialist, met name het Russische wedervaren. Voor die verdiensten werd hem in 1986 de Joerin Gagarin medaille aangeboden. Het boek vertelt…
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Na zeven jaar reizen door ons zonnestelsel, is de Cassini- Huygens missie nu vlakbij zijn doel: Titan, de mysterieuze oranje maan van Saturnus.
Samen met mijn tante ga ik op wonderbaarlijk ruimt-avontuur en ga ik de…
It is predicted that in the morning of Wednesday, 11th August 1999, darkness will descend in Cornwall and Devon as the Sun becomes a smaller and smaller crescent of light and disappears altogether. A total eclipse of the sun is a once-in-a-lifetime…