The Star by Which We Live: Discovering the Secrets of the Sun - Softcover

Kippenhahn, Rudolf

 
9780471943631: The Star by Which We Live: Discovering the Secrets of the Sun
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0471943630 ISBN 13: 9780471943631
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 1994

Inhaltsangabe

This is a survey of our current knowledge of the closest and most important star. It unravels the complexities of astrophysics in language that is easy to understand. After reviewing how our knowledge of the Sun has been acquired over the centuries, it explains how the Sun - as viewed from the Earth and from space - is investigated, the key people and instruments involved with these discoveries, the results so far, and what we still have to learn. Fully illustrated and complete with appendices, this text should appeal to the general public, amateur astronomers and students.

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This is a survey of our current knowledge of the closest and most important star. It unravels the complexities of astrophysics in language that is easy to understand. After reviewing how our knowledge of the Sun has been acquired over the centuries, it explains how the Sun - as viewed from the Earth and from space - is investigated, the key people and instruments involved with these discoveries, the results so far, and what we still have to learn. Fully illustrated and complete with appendices, this text should appeal to the general public, amateur astronomers and students.

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Verlag
John Wiley & Sons Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
1994
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0471943630
ISBN 13 
9780471943631
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
280
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