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  From the early pioneers to the latest spaceflight technology, this groundbreaking book charts the inspirational story behind humankind’s conquest of the skies. In the 100 years since the Wright brothers’ first powered flight, aviation has witnessed many memorable events. From record-breaking flights and aerial warfare, to advances in aircraft design and the race for space, [...]

• Cosmology

  This book is unique in the detailed, self-contained, and comprehensive treatment that it gives to the ideas and formulas that are used and tested in modern cosmological research. It divides into two parts, each of which provides enough material for a one-semester graduate course. The first part deals chiefly with the isotropic and homogeneous average [...]

• Solar System Astrophysics: Planetary Atmospheres and the Outer Solar System (Astronomy and Astrophysics Library) (v. 2)

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• Oh My Poor Pluto :(

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• Asteroids

  There is a lot of exciting stuff going on in the stars above us that make astronomy so much fun. The truth is the universe is a constantly changing, moving, some would say “living” thing because you just never know what you are going to see on any given night of stargazing. But of the [...]