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On February 1st 2003, one of the worst and most public disasters ever witnessed in the human space programme unfolded with horrifying suddenness in the skies above north central Texas. The Space Shuttle Columbia – the world’s first truly reusable…

Ben Gilliland legt in Waarom draait de wereld door? in woord en beeld uit hoe het heelal is ontstaan in de vorm van een stap-voor-staphandleiding hoe je zelf een kosmos kunt maken. En onder het motto 'what goes up, must come down' wordt ook de…

De zoektocht naar leven elders in het universum Het is haast onvoorstelbaar: alleen al in ons Melkwegstelsel zouden zich meer dan tien miljard planeten met leven kunnen bevinden. Het onderzoek naar buitenaards leven is een serieuze wetenschappelijke…

Particle Physics Brick by Brick explains how and with what the universe came to be. It introduces the Standard Model of Physics, the "rule book" of physics which has been proven correct again and again since its mid-20 century development. Today, it…

The beginning of time has always been a basic question for any undergraduate student, and it is also a question that intrigues current researchers in astronomy. This text provides an introduction to current thought in this expanding field by…

Is it possible that extraterrestrial life forms exist within our Galaxy, the Milky Way? This book offers a critical analysis by leading experts in a range of sciences, of the plausibility that other intelligent lifeforms do exist. Exploration of the…

REPRINT of the original work of 1849 Excerpt from the conclusion (p.29) “… The errors, numerous as we have seen them to be, are ye generally the consequence rather of superficial investigation than of anything worse.  The only exception which we ae…

 

Radio astronomy uses unique observational techniques and offers the only way to investigate many phenomena in the Universe. This book, by two founders of the field, presents both a clear introduction to radio telescopes and techniques and a broad…