Everything revolves around it...and now skywatchers and armchair scientists can learn all about the origin and history of the sun. With information on the sun's physical properties; how solar flares, sunspots, and winds on its surface affect Earth's atmosphere and environment; solar and lunar eclipses, transits, and occultations, and early astronomers' discoveries about the sun, including Galileo, Copernicus, Francis Bailey, and the Mayans.
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Dr. Jay Pasachoff received his Ph.D. in astronomy from Harvard University in 1969. Since 1972, he has been the Field Memorial Professor of Astronomy at Williams University and the Director of Hopkins Observatory. He is also researcher at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and currently is a visiting scientist at Harvard University's Department of Astronomy, as well as the chair of the Working Group on Solar Eclipses of the International Astronomical Union. Dr. Pasachoff is the author of A Field Guide of Planets and Stars, Fourth Edition, and Nearest Star: Surprising Science of Our Sun (with Leon Glub).
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Paperback. Zustand: Fair. At the center of our solar system, the sun has long been a popular object of curiosity and study throughout human history. Stonehenge may have been built primarily to observe it. The Mayans designed their mathematically sophisticated calendars around it. And, Galileo nearly came to blows with other keen minds in describing its unique features. We know more about the sun now than ever before. We have an accurate notion of its physical properties. We can now explain how spectacular solar eclipsesoccur. We also know that the sun's surface-giving rise to solar winds, flares, and sunspots-can have a dramatic effect on the Earth, from power line surges to the beautiful aurora borealis to influencing cycles of climatic warming and cooling. Artikel-Nr. 00108889637
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Paperback. Zustand: Good. At the center of our solar system, the sun has long been a popular object of curiosity and study throughout human history. Stonehenge may have been built primarily to observe it. The Mayans designed their mathematically sophisticated calendars around it. And, Galileo nearly came to blows with other keen minds in describing its unique features. We know more about the sun now than ever before. We have an accurate notion of its physical properties. We can now explain how spectacular solar eclipsesoccur. We also know that the sun's surface-giving rise to solar winds, flares, and sunspots-can have a dramatic effect on the Earth, from power line surges to the beautiful aurora borealis to influencing cycles of climatic warming and cooling. Artikel-Nr. CIN1592570747G
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