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• Shopping for An Astronomy Telescope

  When we were children we were often taught that we could wish upon the first star that we saw in the evening sky. After that wish was made and if we believed hard enough our wish would come true. Eventually, our childhood fantasies gave way to fact as we became more educated. This education was [...]

• How Galileo?s Telescope Changed Astronomy

  Before Galileo turned his telescope toward the night sky the act of astronomy was pretty much an astrological pursuit where objects and motions of object in the sky were explained using ancient and archaic understandings of the universe and how it works. Related posts Instrumentation for Large Telescopes (Cambridge Contemporary Astrophysics) Sky & Telescope’s [...]

• The 50 Most Extreme Places in Our Solar System

  The extreme events that we hear about daily—hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions—are extreme in purely human terms, in the devastation they do. But this book moves our understanding of the extreme into extraterrestrial dimensions and gives us an awe-inspiring sense of what our solar system at its utmost can do. Martian dust devils taller [...]

• The Kerr Spacetime: Rotating Black Holes in General Relativity

  Rotating black holes, as described by the Kerr space-time, are the key to understanding the most violent and energetic phenomena in the Universe, from the core collapse of massive supernova explosions producing powerful bursts of gamma rays, to supermassive black hole engines that power quasars and other active galactic nuclei. This book is a unique, [...]

• Earthrise: How Man First Saw the Earth

  Earthrise tells the remarkable story of the first photographs of Earth from space and the totally unexpected impact of those images. The Apollo ?Earthrise” and ?Blue Marble” photographs were beamed across the world some forty years ago. They had an astounding effect, Robert Poole explains, and in fact transformed thinking about the Earth and its [...]