Astronomi, rymd & tid

Astronomisk kalender 2020 vänder sig till alla som skulle vilja veta mer om stjärnhimlen och vad som händer där, vecka för vecka under hela året. Samtidigt är den en fullständig almanacka med veckonummer, namnsdagar och helgdagar. Om du bara vet n...

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Combining a student-centred approach with the reliability of a familiar and proven text, Discovering The Universe invites students to follow their curiosity and ask questions about astronomy, through features including What If? questions that expl...

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The concept of time has fascinated humanity throughout recorded history, and it remains one of the biggest mysteries in science and philosophy. Time is clearly one of the fundamental building blocks of the universe and thus a deeper understanding ...

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Maria Küchens Rymdens alfabet är en passionerad berättelse om människans rymdfärder och allt som hör därtill: Sovjetunionens 150 rymdhundar, rymddräkters haute couture och poplåtar om månraketer. SvD I Rymdens alfabet ger sig Maria Küchen i kast m...

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Följ med Sveriges enda rymddesigner och "space broker" Cecilia Hertz på en rafflande resa av upptäckter, innovation och forskning som ytterst kan rädda vår planet! Från astronaut till urbanaut Astronauter konsumerar bara den exakta mängd...

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How did life on Earth begin? How common is it elsewhere in the Universe? Written and edited by planetary scientists and astrobiologists, this undergraduate-level textbook provides an introduction to the origin and nature of life, the habitable env...

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Hade tiden en början? Kommer den att få ett slut? Hur skapades universum och är det oändligt? Eller finns det gränser för det? Utifrån dessa enkla frågor diskuterar den teoretiska fysikern Stephen Hawking de klassiska kosmologiska teorierna och al...

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The bestselling author of The Sign and the Seal reveals the true origins of civilization. Connecting puzzling clues scattered throughout the world, Hancock discovers compelling evidence of a technologically and culturally advanced civilization tha...

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On October 1, 1958, the world's first civilian space agency opened for business as an emergency response to the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik a year earlier. Within a decade, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, universally known ...

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"...The Multiversal book series is equally unique, providing book-length extensions of the lectures with enough additional depth for those who truly want to explore these fields, while also providing the kind of clarity that is appropriate fo...

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The illustrated edition of Stephen Hawking's classic work - this edition includes an appendix with updates made by Professor Hawking in 2016. In this edition, Professor Hawking explains his complex theories through a fresh visual dimension. Over o...

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How do planetary scientists analyze and interpret data from laboratory, telescopic, and spacecraft observations of planetary surfaces? What elements, minerals, and volatiles are found on the surfaces of our Solar System's planets, moons, asteroids...

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Present-day elliptical, spiral and irregular galaxies are large systems made of stars, gas and dark matter. Their properties result from a variety of physical processes that have occurred during the nearly fourteen billion years since the Big Bang...

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RETURNING TO TELEVISION AS AN ALL-NEW MINISERIES ON FOX Cosmos is one of the bestselling science books of all time. In clear-eyed prose, Sagan reveals a jewel-like blue world inhabited by a life form that is just beginning to discover its own iden...

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Published more than two decades ago to great critical acclaim and commercial success, A Brief History of Time has become a landmark volume in science writing. Stephen Hawking, one of the great minds of our time, explores such profound questions as...

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Cosmology, the study of the universe as a whole, has become a precise physical science, the foundation of which is our understanding of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR) left from the big bang. The story of the discovery and explora...

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Tarnas demonstrates the existence of a consistent correspondence between planetary movements and the unfolding of human history. He maintains the present is most comparable to the period 500 years ago, an era of extraordinary turbulence and creati...

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Examines humankind's changing awareness of its place in the universe and the rich potential of human ventures into the world beyond Earth.

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Let Lonely Planet take you further than ever before with the world's first and only travel guide to the Universe. Developed with the latest data from NASA, we take you from our home on Earth and out into the far reaches of the solar system, then i...

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Traditionally, radiative transfer has been the domain of astrophysicists and climatologists. In nuclear technology one has been dealing with the ana- gous equations of neutron transport. In recent years, applications of radiative transferincombust...

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THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics takes us on an enchanting, consoling journey to discover the meaning of time 'We are time. We are this space, this clearing opened by the traces of memory insi...

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An accessible yet rigorous introduction to remote sensing and its application to the study of vegetation for advanced undergraduate and graduate students. The underlying physical and mathematical principles of the techniques disucussed are explain...

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En häpnadsväckande memoar skriven av den banbrytande amerikanske NASA-astronauten som hyllades världen över efter sitt år ombord på den internationella rymdstationen. Scott Kelly skildrar magin, svårigheterna och utmaningarna under resan, samtidig...

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Detta är berättelsen om mänsklighetens största intellektuella äventyr. Den prisbelönta fysikprofessorn Lawrence Krauss berättar i episkt poetiska termer vad universum egentligen är, och vad som gömmer sig bakom det vi uppfattar som verkligheten. B...

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'IMPRESSIVE AND ILLUMINATING' TOM HANKS This is the definitive account of the heroic Apollo programme. When astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took their 'giant leap for mankind' across a ghostly lunar landscape, they were watched by some 6...

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Man's view of the universe is widening today, as it did once before in the early days of big telescopes and photographic plates. Modern man, by means of radio, infrared, optical, ultraviolet, and X-ray astronomy, can penetrate the universe to dept...

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Universe by Robert M. Geller and Roger Freedman strikes the right balance between scientific rigor and student comprehension and excitement. Available as the full 27 chapter text or split into Stars and Galaxies and The Solar System, Universe prov...

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In this well-illustrated text, Kenneth R. Lang explains the life cycle of stars, from the dense molecular clouds that are stellar nurseries to the enigmatic nebulae some stars leave behind in their violent ends. Free of mathematical equations and ...

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Was there a beginning of time? Could time run backwards? Is the universe infinite or does it have boundaries? These are just some of the questions considered in the internationally acclaimed masterpiece by the world renowned physicist - generally ...

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