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Nearest Star Leon Golub

Nearest Star By Leon Golub

Nearest Star by Leon Golub


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Unlike the myriad points of light in the night sky, our nearest star allows us to study the wonders of stellar workings at blindingly close range. And what do we see? In this book, two solar scientists unfold all that history and science have revealed about the Sun. from the

Nearest Star Summary

Nearest Star: The Surprising Science of Our Sun by Leon Golub

Unlike the myriad points of light we gaze at in the night sky, our nearest star allows us to study the wonders of stellar workings at blindingly close range - from a mere 93 million miles away. And what do we see? In this book, two of the world's leading solar scientists unfold all that history and science - from the first cursory observations to the measurements obtained by the latest state-of-the-instruments on the ground and in space - have revealed about the Sun. Following the path of science from the very centre of this 380,000,000,000,000,000,000-megawatt furnace to its explosive surface. This text invites readers into an open-ended narrative of discovery about what we know about the Sun and how we have learned it. 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 centre of this book. Having made optical solar observations with many solar telescopes and in the rockets and satellites, the authors bring their extensive personal experience to this story of how astronomers study the Sun, and what they have discovered about phenomena from eclipses to neutrinos, space weather, and global warming.

About Leon Golub

Leon Golub is an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and is the head of one of the teams working with NASA's Transition Region and Coronal Explorer (TRACE) spacecraft. Jay M. Pasachoff is Field Memorial Professor of Astronomy at Williams College and, having viewed 30 solar eclipses, is Chair of the Working Group on Eclipses of the International Astronomical Union.

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GOR004691130
9780674004672
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Nearest Star: The Surprising Science of Our Sun by Leon Golub
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Harvard University Press
20010511
304
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