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020 _a9781139629003 (ebook)
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050 0 0 _aQB521
_b.G65 2014
082 0 0 _a523.7
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100 1 _aGolub, L.
_q(Leon),
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aNearest star :
_bthe surprising science of our sun /
_cLeon Golub, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Jay M. Pasachoff, Williams College.
250 _aSecond edition.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2014.
300 _a1 online resource (xvi, 297 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
505 0 _aThe sun -- The once and future sun -- What we see : the solar disk -- What we don't see -- Eclipses -- Space missions -- Between fire and ice -- Space weather.
520 _aHow 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 core of this book. The Sun is the only star near enough to study in sufficient detail to provide rigorous tests of our theories and help us understand the more distant and exotic objects throughout the cosmos. Having observed the Sun using both ground-based and spaceborne instruments, the authors bring their extensive personal experience to this story revealing what we have discovered about phenomena from eclipses to neutrinos, space weather, and global warming. This second edition is updated throughout, and features results from the current spacecraft that are aloft, especially NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, for which one of the authors designed some of the telescopes.
651 0 _aSun.
700 1 _aPasachoff, Jay M.,
_eauthor.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9781107052659
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139629003
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