Nearest Star

Nearest Star

Author: Leon Golub

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-02-17

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 110778316X

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How did the Sun evolve, and what will it become? What is the origin of its light and heat? How does solar activity affect the atmospheric conditions that make life on Earth possible? These are the questions at the heart of solar physics, and at the core of this book. The Sun is the only star near enough to study in sufficient detail to provide rigorous tests of our theories and help us understand the more distant and exotic objects throughout the cosmos. Having observed the Sun using both ground-based and spaceborne instruments, the authors bring their extensive personal experience to this story revealing what we have discovered about phenomena from eclipses to neutrinos, space weather, and global warming. This second edition is updated throughout, and features results from the current spacecraft that are aloft, especially NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, for which one of the authors designed some of the telescopes.


Larvae of the Nearest Stars

Larvae of the Nearest Stars

Author: Catherine W. Carter

Publisher: LSU Press

Published: 2019-10-16

Total Pages: 73

ISBN-13: 0807172324

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Larvae of the Nearest Stars offers deeply serious verse that packs profound emotional and spiritual power while encouraging readers to laugh out loud. Catherine W. Carter’s quirky, accessible poems bridge and question binaries—human and nonhuman, lyric and narrative, science and magic, river trash and galaxies. The poems’ subjects range from dowsers and liver spots to the mysteries of two-seater outhouses and encounters with sentient milk jugs and “our lady of the bagels.” The collection begins and ends by confronting the necessity—and the promise—to bear witness to the world as it is, addressing how we can manage to love the world in the face of everything that makes doing so a challenge. The poems in this engaging and meditative collection are sometimes dark, often funny, but always surprising.


Observing the Nearest Stars

Observing the Nearest Stars

Author: Robert Prokop

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2012-06-04

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 1105834522

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Looking up into the Heavens on a clear night under a dark sky, we can easily fool ourselves into thinking that the brightest stars we see are those closest to us. The reality could not be more different! In fact, 19 of the 25 closest stars to the Sun are invisible to our naked eye, and many are actually fo faint that even with the modest equipment owned by most amateur astronomers, they can be supremely difficult to find. Observing the Nearest Stars takes the reader on a one-year guided tour through the region of the Milky Way galaxy closest to our own solar system, concentrating on practical hints at observing this region for one's self. 63 color illustrations and detailed star charts guide the viewer to find for themselves every star within 12 light years of the sun and visible from the Continental United States.


Alpha Centauri

Alpha Centauri

Author: Martin Beech

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-10-15

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 331909372X

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As our closest stellar companion and composed of two Sun-like stars and a third small dwarf star, Alpha Centauri is an ideal testing ground of astrophysical models and has played a central role in the history and development of modern astronomy—from the first guesses at stellar distances to understanding how our own star, the Sun, might have evolved. It is also the host of the nearest known exoplanet, an ultra-hot, Earth-like planet recently discovered. Just 4.4 light years away Alpha Centauri is also the most obvious target for humanity’s first directed interstellar space probe. Such a mission could reveal the small-scale structure of a new planetary system and also represent the first step in what must surely be humanity’s greatest future adventure—exploration of the Milky Way Galaxy itself. For all of its closeness, α Centauri continues to tantalize astronomers with many unresolved mysteries, such as how did it form, how many planets does it contain and where are they, and how might we view its extensive panorama directly? In this book we move from the study of individual stars to the study of our Solar System and our nearby galactic neighborhood. On the way we will review the rapidly developing fields of exoplanet formation and detection.


The Sun

The Sun

Author: Reagan Miller

Publisher: Journey Through Space (Paperba

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780778753148

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This exciting book teaches young readers about the sunEarths nearest star. Astounding photographs and simple text help kids understand the suns features and role in our solar system.


The Sun

The Sun

Author: Franklyn M. Branley

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2002-05-07

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 0064452026

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The sun brings heat, warmth, and energy to the Earth. What is the sun made of? How big is it? How far away? Read and find out!


The Sun Is My Favorite Star

The Sun Is My Favorite Star

Author: Frank Asch

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2008-03

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9780152063979

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A girl describes why she loves the Sun and the many ways in which it helps the earth and the life upon it.


Nearest Star

Nearest Star

Author: Leon Golub

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-02-24

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 1107052653

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An authoritative and readable introduction to the Sun, our nearest star, from two experienced astronomers, for general science readers.


S.Chand’s Science For Class-8

S.Chand’s Science For Class-8

Author: B.K. Gowel & Sangeeta

Publisher: S. Chand Publishing

Published:

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 8121934982

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Illustrations and photographs are given to elucidate comprehension of key concepts. Extra learning material has been added under Additional Learning to teach wider aspects of the basic concepts