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• Forty-Two Poems

  There lies afar behind a western hill The Town without a Market, white and still; For six feet long and not a third as high Are those small habitations. There stood I, Waiting to hear the citizens beneath Murmur and sigh and speak through tongueless teeth. When all the world lay burning in the sun [...]

• Cosmos: A Field Guide

  With a foreword by the author of Galileo’s Daughter, this is an awe-inspiring, majestic account of the ultimate journey?a 13.7 billion-light-year voyage from our home planet to the edge of the universe and the beginning of time The magnificent vault of stars emblazoning Earth’s night skies are but an infinitesimal fraction of the hundreds of billions that inhabit our [...]

• 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, [...]

• Universe: The Solar System

  This is an abbreviated volume of Universe by Freedman et al., focusing on the solar system. Known for their state-of-the-science coverage, the various Universe books place the basics of astronomy and the process of science within the grasp of introductory students. The 4th edition has been updated with new material and new discoveries. Related posts [...]

• Looking at the Stars through an Online Telescope

  In today’s modern hi-tech world, we are able to converse with people half way around the world with a click of the computer mouse. The Internet has opened up a whole new world of information and communication. Well, the field of astronomy is no exception and has ushered in a new way of viewing the [...]