Abrams & Primack, Inc, UK, 2011, – 164 p. – ISBN: 0300165080; 0300181248 After a four-century rupture between science and the questions of value and meaning, this book presents an explosive and potentially life-altering idea: if the world could agree on a shared creation story based on modern cosmology and biology, it would redefine our relationship with Earth and benefit all...
9th Edition. — McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2020. — 1520 p. — ISBN: 978-1-260-15051-3. The ninth edition of Explorations: An Introduction to Astronomy continues to share with students a sense of wonder about the universe and the dynamic, ever-changing science of astronomy. Written for students of various educational backgrounds, Explorations emphasizes current information, a...
New York, Scientific American, 2022. — 180 p. — (EBOOKS Scientific American). — ISBN 9781466858893. This second eBook in our Ask the Experts series – Astronomy – looks skyward and explains a variety of universal phenomena and theories. Questions on stars, planets, asteroids, galaxies, black holes, space exploration and more are answered in this collection. For going on two...
White Owl, 2018. — 168 р. — ISBN: 978-1526715531. Spectacular nebulae where stars are born, beautiful star clusters from the early formation of the Milky Way, and galaxies as far as a billion light years away, all feature in this book of stunning images from astrophotographer Chris Baker. The author takes the reader on a journey through time and space to the Deep Sky, far...
Quercus, 2011. – 230 p. – ISBN: 0857381237; 1848660669 For millennia humanity has gazed in wonder at the night sky, tracked the motions of the planets and attempted to explain our place in the Universe. But only in our own time has the true scale, the astonishing variety and the remarkable strangeness of the cosmos come clearly into focus. The pace and sophistication of recent...
Bluesource and Friends, 2019. — 87 p. — ISBN: 1070504068. Astronomy is inherently more observational rather than an elemental study of science. All measurements are performed at a greater distance from the object of interest, with no control of quantities such as chemical composition, pressure, or temperature. You will also understand the study of the solar system with relation...
Yale University Press, 2018. — 320 p. — ISBN 0-300-23574-7, 978-0-300-23574-6, 978-0-300-24058-0. An award-winning science writer presents a captivating collection of cosmological essays for the armchair astronomer. The galaxy, the multiverse, and the history of astronomy are explored in this engaging compilation of cosmological "tales" by multiple award'winning science writer...
William Chershel, 2021. — 141 p. — ASIN B09CQBPP1C. Космос: звезды размером с город The book is devoted to neutron stars - the only astronomical objects, the research of which has already been awarded two Nobel Prizes in physics, and two more are on the way. This suggests that it is they, among all the variety of celestial bodies, that are of the greatest interest for modern...
Touch Press and Faber & Faber, 2011. — 224 p. — ISBN 978-0-7624-8073-9, 978-0-7624-8074-6. An astonishing journey through space and time. Experience all the wonders of our interplanetary neighborhood through fascinating text, original graphics, and stunning photographs. Never before have the wonders of our solar system been so immediately accessible to readers of all ages....
Icon Books, 2019. — 176 p. — (Hot Science). — ISBN: 978-178578-550-4, 978-178578-569-6. All the matter and light we can see in the universe makes up a trivial 5 per cent of everything. The rest is hidden. Since the 1970s, astronomers have been aware that galaxies have far too little matter in them to account for the way they spin around: they should fly apart like clay off a...
Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2017. — 143 p. — ISBN: 978-1-6817-4497-1. In September 2017, the Cassini spacecraft will point itself toward the surface of Saturn and end its 13-year mission of solving many of the mysteries of the ringed planet's system with a crash. This book is a dramatic, beautifully illustrated journey of discovery through the Saturn system. Cassini's...
Perseus Books Group, USA, 2007. — 161 p. — ISBN: 0465014038
Lives of the Planets describes a scientific field in the midst of a revolution. Planetary science has mainly been a descriptive science, but it is becoming increasingly experimental. The space probes that went up between the 1960s and 1990s were primarily generalists-they collected massive amounts of information so...
Penguin Books, 2012. — 242 p. — ISBN-13 978-0241952702. Квантовая Вселенная: все, что может случиться, случается "The Quantum Universe" is the interesting book about the subatomic realm. Well known physicist and science celebrity Brian Cox along with fellow physicist Jeff Forshaw take us into the intimidating world of quantum mechanics. Using the latest in scientific...
Penguin Books Ltd, Allen Lane, 2016. — 304 p. — ISBN: 978-0-141-96834-6. An awe-inspiring, unforgettable journey of scientific exploration from Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw, the top ten bestselling authors of The Quantum Universe. We dare to imagine a time before the Big Bang, when the entire Universe was compressed into a space smaller than an atom. And now, as Brian Cox and...
HarperCollins Publishers, 2018. — 320 p. — (The Infinite Monkey Cage). — ISBN: 978-0008276324, 978-0008254964. The Infinite Monkey Cage, the legendary BBC Radio 4 programme, brings you this irreverent celebration of scientific marvels. Join us on a hectic leap through the grand and bizarre ideas conjured up by human imagination, from dark matter to consciousness via neutrinos...
William Collins, 2022. — 517 p. — ISBN: 978-000-839062-4 At the heart of our galaxy lies a monster so deadly it can bend space, throwing vast jets of radiation millions of light years out into the cosmos. Its kind were the very first inhabitants of the universe, the black holes. Today, across the universe, at the heart of every galaxy, and dotted throughout, mature black holes...
London: Reaktion Books Ltd, 2021. — 191 p. Grounded in historical studies of asteroids from the nineteenth century, Asteroids is a fully up-to-date view of these remarkable objects. Without resorting to any technical diagrams or mathematics, Clifford J. Cunningham shows that asteroids are not just rocks in space, but key to understanding the life and death on Earth of both...
The University of Chicago Press, 2021. — 208 p. — ISBN 978-0-226-81629-6. Combining the latest scientific advances with storytelling skills unmatched in the cosmos, an award-winning astrophysicist and popular writer leads us on a tour of some of the greatest mysteries of our universe. In the constellation of Eridanus there lurks a cosmic mystery: It’s as if something has taken...
HarperOne, 2022. — 224 p. Using the power of the sun, moon, stars, and planets, this unique, illustrated guide is filled with engaging exercises that deepen your knowledge of the solar system, help you take necessary pauses every day, and foster a renewed sense of presence in the universe. Thousands of years ago, when we humans lived together in communal caves, we told stories...
Penguin Books Ltd., 2018. — 320 p. — ISBN: 978-0-241-23590-4. Jo Dunkley combines her expertise as an astrophysicist with her talents as a teacher and writer in this lively and exceptionally clear introduction to the structure and history of the universe and its enduring mysteries. Most of us have heard of black holes and supernovas, galaxies and the Big Bang. But few of us...
HarperOne, 2021. — 368 p. — ISBN 978-0063020054. A fascinating and thought-provoking investigation into the nature of black holes—a blend of the spiritual, the philosophical, and the scientific—from the premier German astrophysicist who made history in 2018, capturing the first one on film. A Light in the Darkness is the story of one of the greatest astrological achievements of...
Bloomsbury Wildlife, 2019. — 272 p. — ISBN13: 978-1472964595. Темные Небеса: Поездка в Дикую Ночь In this beautifully written nature narrative, Tiffany Francis explores nocturnal landscapes and investigates how our experiences of the night-time world have permeated our history, folklore, science, geography, art, and literature. Darkness has shaped our lives for millennia, and...
The Experiment, LLC, 2021. — 314 p. — ISBN 9781615197361. These 100 amazing stars shine a light on astronomy’s greatest hits and their enduring impact on our culture. With roughly 100 billion stars in the Milky Way alone, the cosmos is simply too vast for an unabridged tell-all. But here’s the next best thing: 100 stars—bright and faint, near and far, famous and obscure, long...
Collins, 2023. — 112 p. — ISBN 978-0008580235. Солнце: руководство для начинающих по нашей местной звезде Despite its apparent unchanging appearance in the daytime sky, the Sun is incredibly dynamic and shrouded in mystery. In this guide, Dr. Ryan French explores history, science and modern observations to uncover the mysteries of the Sun. From ancient astronomers who hailed...
Ivy Press, 2013. — 160 p. — ISBN: 978-1-84831-597-6 How hot is Venus? Can you distinguish between a pulsar and a quasar? Is there a universe or a multiverse? Where do we fit into the infinitely grand scheme of things? How do we map the Cosmic Microwave Background? Most tantalizing of all: Is there anyone out there? The answers to these and many other far-out questions lie in your...
San Francisco, USA: Chronicle Books, 2018. — 152 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4521-6719-0. Science is really beautiful. With original illustrations that deftly explain the strange-but-true world of science, Seeing Science offers a curated ride through the great mysteries of the universe. Artist and lay scientist Iris Gottlieb explains among other things: neap tides, naked mole rats, whale...
Basic Books, 2024 — 320 p. Our books, our movies—our imaginations—are obsessed with extra dimensions, alternate timelines, and the sense that all we see might not be all there is. In short, we can’t stop thinking about the multiverse. As it turns out, physicists are similarly captivated. In The Allure of the Multiverse, physicist Paul Halpern tells the epic story of how science...
Allen & Unwin, 2022. — 304 p. — ISBN-13 9781760877200. «Первые астрономы» — это первая книга, раскрывающая богатые знания о звездах и планетах, которыми владели первые люди по всему миру. The First Astronomers is the first book to reveal the rich knowledge of the stars and the planets held by First Peoples around the world. Our eyes have been drawn away from the skies to our...
Spacetime Publications Limited, 2018. — 256 p. — ISBN: 1984819194. The world-famous cosmologist and #1 bestselling author of A Brief History of Time leaves us with his final thoughts on the biggest questions facing humankind. Stephen Hawking was the most renowned scientist since Einstein, known both for his groundbreaking work in physics and cosmology and for his mischievous...
Cotta, 2020. — 177 S. Stephen Hawkings Vermächtnis In seinem letzten Buch gibt Stephen Hawking Antworten auf die drängendsten Fragen unserer Zeit und nimmt uns mit auf eine persönliche Reise durch das Universum seiner Weltanschauung. Seine Gedanken zu Ursprung und Zukunft der Menschheit sind zugleich eine Mahnung, unseren Heimatplaneten besser vor den Gefahren unserer Gegenwart...
Phoenix Books, 2009. — 117 p. — ISBN-13 978-1597776110. Stephen Hawking is widely believed to be one of the world’s greatest minds, a brilliant theoretical physicist whose work helped reconfigure models of the universe and define what’s in it. Imagine sitting in a room listening to Hawking discuss these achievements and place them in historical context; it would be like hearing...
W.H. Freeman and Company, 2001. — 338 p. — ISBN 0-8050-7133-4. In the dramatic tradition of the best-selling Longitude, Parallax charts the historical path of observational astronomy’s most daunting challenge: measuring the distance to a star. The greatest scientific minds applied themselves in vain to the problem across the millennia, beginning with the ancient Greeks. Not...
Dover Publications, 2013. — 320 p. — ISBN 0-486-31591-6, 978-0-486-31591-1. In the dramatic tradition of the best-selling Longitude, Parallax charts the historical path of observational astronomy’s most daunting challenge: measuring the distance to a star. The greatest scientific minds applied themselves in vain to the problem across the millennia, beginning with the ancient...
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. — 250 p. — ISBN10: 0226345777; ISBN13: 978-0226345772 Gazing up at the heavens from our backyards or a nearby field, most of us see an undifferentiated mess of stars—if, that is, we can see anything at all through the glow of light pollution. Today’s casual observer knows far less about the sky than did our ancestors, who depended on...
Norton, 2018. — 315 p. Black holes are the most extreme objects in the universe, and yet they are ubiquitous. Every massive star leaves behind a black hole when it dies, and every galaxy harbors a supermassive black hole at its center. Frighteningly enigmatic, these dark giants continue to astound even the scientists who spend their careers studying them. Which came first, the...
Basic Books, 2024. — 751 p. — ISBN 5-89394-169-1 A leading astronomer and gifted teacher takes readers on a wondrous tour—”perfect for anyone who enjoyed Astrophysics for People in a Hurry” (Publishers Weekly)—of how science confronts the big questions about the origins, destiny, and fundamental nature of our universe Humans have learned a lot about the world around us and the...
Princeton University Press, 2022. — 240 p. With known exoplanets now numbering in the thousands and initiatives like 100 Year Starship and Breakthrough Starshot advancing the idea of interstellar travel, the age-old dream of venturing forth into the cosmos and perhaps even colonizing distant worlds may one day become a reality. A Traveler’s Guide to the Stars reveals how. Les...
White Owl, 2020. — 386 p. — ISBN 978 1 52677 187 2. "Maintaining its appealing style and presentation, the Yearbook of Astronomy 2021 contains comprehensive jargon-free monthly sky notes and an authoritative set of sky charts to enable backyard astronomers and sky gazers everywhere to plan their viewing of the year's eclipses, comets, meteor showers, and minor planets as well...
HarperCollins Publ., 2022. — 112 p. — ISBN-13 9780008532611. Наблюдение за нашей Солнечной системой: руководство для начинающих Study the ever-changing face of the Moon, watch the steady march of the planets against the stars, witness the thrill of a meteor shower, or the memory of a once-in-a-generation comet. The sights in our Solar System are dynamic reminders of our...
New York, USA, The Experiment, LLC, 2018. — 240 p. — ISBN: 161519486X. An eye-opening celebration of the marvels of space, time, the cosmos, and more. How to Love the Universe is a new kind of science writing by an author truly enamored of the world around him. In ten short chapters of lyrical prose-each one an ode to a breathtaking realm of discovery-Stefan Klein uses everyday...
München: Complett-Media, 2017. История учений о строении вселенной от начала и до наших дней. Популярное изложение. Содержание: Kulturgeschichte der Elemente Naturphilosophie Einführung in die Relativitätstheorie Einführung in die Quantenmechanik Der Anfang von Allem Dunkle Kräfte und Energie Der Kreislauf der Materie Bildnachweise
Sourcebooks, 2020. — 336 p — ISBN 978-1492681076, 1492681075. The story of the people who see beyond the stars―an astronomy book for adults still spellbound by the night sky. Humans from the earliest civilizations through today have craned their necks each night, using the stars to orient themselves in the large, strange world around them. Stargazing is a pursuit that continues...
Knopf, 2020. — 160 p. From the acclaimed author of Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space – an authoritative and accessible guide to the most alluring and challenging phenomena of contemporary science. Through her writing, astrophysicist Janna Levin has focused on making the science she studies not just comprehensible but also, and perhaps more important, intriguing...
Basic Books, 2024. — 616 р. — ISBN 9781541602960 A New York Times–bestselling astrophysicist and a Nobel laureate take us on “a mesmerizing exploration” (Jennifer Doudna) to discover how and where the universe breathed itself into life For a long time, scientists have wondered how life has emerged from inanimate chemistry, and whether Earth is the only place where it exists....
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021. — 240 pp. Harvard’s top astronomer lays out his controversial theory that our solar system was recently visited by advanced alien technology from a distant star. In late 2017, scientists at a Hawaiian observatory glimpsed an object soaring through our inner solar system, moving so quickly that it could only have come from another star. Avi Loeb,...
USA: Amherst Media, Inc., 2019. — 128 p. — ISBN13: 978-1-68203-340-1. The Sun: Images from Space has extraordinary images of beauty with over 130 incredible details of our Sun taken from space. These images come from Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) Mission instruments in conjunction with other various instruments such as those on the Mars Rover. Our Sun, a yellow dwarf star,...
Scribner, 2020. — 240 p. From one of the most dynamic rising stars in astrophysics, an eye-opening look at five ways the universe could end, and the mind-blowing lessons each scenario reveals about the most important ideas in cosmology. We know the universe had a beginning. But what happens at the end of the story? With lively wit and wry humour, astrophysicist Katie Mack takes...
4th Edition. — John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey, Canada, 2017. — 250 p. — ISBN: 1119374243. Your updated guide to exploring the night sky Do you know the difference between a red giant and a white dwarf? From asteroids to black holes, this easy-to-understand guide takes you on a grand tour of the universe. Featuring updated star maps, charts, and an insert with...
5th Edition. — John Wiley & Sons Ltd., For Dummies, 2023. — 411 p. — ISBN 978-1-394-16310-6. An accessible guide to the wonders of the night sky, now updated From asteroids to black holes, from quasars to white dwarfs, this new edition of Astronomy For Dummies takes backyard stargazers on a grand tour of the universe. Featuring star maps, charts, gorgeous full-color...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 224 p. — ISBN-13 9782020951609. Сталкивающиеся миры: как космические столкновения сформировали планеты и жизнь Simone Marchi presents the emerging story of how cosmic collisions shaped both the solar system and our own planet, from the creation of the Moon to influencing the evolution of life on Earth. The Earth emerged out of the upheaval and...
Springer International Publishing AG, 2017. — 231 p. — ISBN: 3319607405. Whether you’re interested in visiting Apollo landing sites or the locations of classic sci-fi movies, this is the tourist guide for you! This tourist guide has a twist – it is a guide to a whole different world, which you can visit from the comfort of your backyard with the aid of nothing more...
Toronto, Canada: Simon Schuster, 2019. — 290 p. — ISBN: 978-1-9821-0685-0. Справочник Землянина по Космосу: Черные дыры, Карликовые Планеты... Beloved science commentator Bob McDonald takes us on a tour of our galaxy, unraveling the mysteries of the universe and helping us navigate our place among the stars. How big is our galaxy? Is there life on those distant planets? Are we...
Constable & Robinson Ltd., 2010. — 317 p. — (Brief History series). — ISBN: 978-0-7624-3622-4. Since the dawn of time, men have gazed at the stars and attempted to chart the heavens. Beginning at Stonehenge and ending with the current crisis in String Theory, the story of this eternal question to uncover the mysteries of the universe describes a narrative that includes some of...
Harvard University Press, 2020. — 304 p. The astonishing science of neutron stars and the stories of the scientists who study them. Neutron stars are as bewildering as they are elusive. The remnants of exploded stellar giants, they are tiny, merely twenty kilometers across, and incredibly dense. One teaspoon of a neutron star would weigh several million tons. They can spin up...
London, UK: Thames & Hudson Ltd., 2020. — 340 p. — ISBN: 978-0-500-29519-9. For millennia, humans have looked to the celestial sphere to explain the cosmos,first recording the movements of the Moon 25,000 years ago. Since the Enlightenmentand the dawn of the space age, scientists have been unravelling cosmic mysteries, andraising astonishing new questions for future generations...
Ten Speed Press, 2024. — 112 p. Discover the ancient myths and fascinating science of the world’s most striking celestial phenomena—eclipses—in this educational, beautifully illustrated guide by the acclaimed author of What We See in the Stars. Awe-inspiring, majestic, and always a little otherworldly, eclipses have captivated our imaginations for thousands of years.
Little, Brown and Company, 2024. — 256 p. The James Webb Space Telescope is transforming the universe right before our eyes—and here, for the first time, is the inside account of how the mission originated, how it performs its miracles of science, and what its revolutionary images are revealing. Pillars of Creation tells the story of one of the greatest scientific achievements...
Epublibre, 2019. El libro de Y. I. Perelman pone al lector en contacto con problemas aislados de la astronomía, con sus maravillosos progresos científicos, y describe en forma seductora los fenómenos más importantes del cielo estrellado. El autor trata muchos fenómenos habituales, de observación diaria, desde un punto de vista totalmente nuevo e inesperado, y revela su...
W. W. Norton & Company, 2023. — ISBN: 978-0-393-86730-5. Под инопланетным небом: Путеводитель по Вселенной A rip-roaring tour of the cosmos with the Bad Astronomer, bringing you up close and personal with the universe like never before. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to travel the universe? How would Saturn’s rings look from a spaceship sailing just above them? If...
De Gruyter, 2014. — 128 p. — ISBN: 978-3-11-044027-0. Далекие Горизонты Времени: Время и Мышление во Вселенной. The book raises and resolves specific questions in the physics of time, such as how and why someone can be simultaneous with events that are in fact days apart. It examines further abiding issues in the physics of time, and suggests that such phenomena can only exist...
2nd Edithon. — Adams Media, 2020. — 256 p. — ISBN: 978-1-5072-1382-7 Discover the amazing wonders of the night sky with this expanded edition to 100 Things to See in the Night Sky, perfect for every amateur stargazer and armchair astronomer! Keep your feet on the ground and experience the night sky to the fullest by exploring planets, satellites, and constellations with this...
Adams Media, 2017. — 201 p. — ASIN B06ZZLYV1P, ISBN: 1507205058. The night sky is full of amazing things to see-from shooting stars and constellations to planets and satellites-but it can be hard to tell what you're seeing, or where to look for the best view. 100 Things to See in the Night Sky gives you a clear picture of what you can see on any given night, either using a...
Random House, 2013. — 396 p. Cosmos is a 1980 popular science book by astronomer and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Carl Sagan. Its 13 illustrated chapters, corresponding to the 13 episodes of the Cosmos TV series, which the book was co-developed with and intended to complement, explore the mutual development of science and civilization. One of Sagan's main purposes for the book...
Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012. — 272 p. — ISBN: 978-0-374-70975-4. We've long understood black holes to be the points at which the universe as we know it comes to an end. Often billions of times more massive than the Sun, they lurk in the inner sanctum of almost every galaxy of stars in the universe. They're mysterious chasms so destructive and...
Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017. — 224 p. — ISBN: 978-0374279745. In "The Zoomable Universe", the award-winning astrobiologist Caleb Scharf and the acclaimed artist Ron Miller take us on an epic tour through all known scales of reality, from the largest possible magnitude to the smallest. Drawing on cutting-edge science, they begin at the limits of the...
2018. — 163 p. — ISBN: 164327001X. Prior to the 1920s it was generally thought, with a few exceptions, that our galaxy, the Milky Way, was the entire Universe. Based on the work of Henrietta Leavitt with Cepheid variables, astronomer Edwin Hubble was able to determine that the Andromeda Galaxy and others had to lie outside our own. Moreover, based on the work of Vesto Slipher,...
World Scientific Publishing Company, 2015. — x+376 p. — ISBN: 978-9814667166. A look up at the night sky reveals a treasury of wonders. Even to the naked eye, the Moon, stars, planets, the Milky Way and even a few star clusters and nebulae illuminate the heavens. For millennia, humans struggled to make sense of what's out there in the Universe, from all we can see to that which...
Harvard University Press, 2019. — 320 p. — ISBN: 978-0-674-97588-0 (print), 978-0-674-24338-5 (EPUB), 978-0-674-24337-8 (PDF). The award-winning former editor of Science News shows that one of the most fascinating and controversial ideas in contemporary cosmology ― the existence of multiple parallel universes ― has a long and divisive history that continues to this day. We...
Princeton University Press, 2022. — 304 p. Just over half a century since Neil Armstrong first stepped foot on the lunar surface, a new space race to the Moon is well underway and rapidly gaining momentum. Laying out a vision for the next fifty years, Back to the Moon is astrophysicist Joseph Silk’s persuasive and impassioned case for putting scientific discovery at the...
UK and USA: The Berkeley Bookstore; Lyndon N. Smith, 2020. — 306 p. — ISBN-13 9798566552750. Почему вы не можете отправить ракету на Марс: некоторые личные размышления о науке и обществе Hey you, all lovers of science and technology, this richly illustrated book is for you, no matter what age and what level of understanding of physics you have. This is a combination of humour...
Columbia University Press, 2024. — 638 р. — ISBN 978-0-231-55458-9 On the surface of the Sun, spots appear and fade in a predictable cycle, like a great clock in the sky. In medieval Russia, China, and Korea, monks and court astronomers recorded the appearance of these dark shapes, interpreting them as omens of things to come. In Western Europe, by contrast, where a cosmology...
New York: Prometheus Books, 2014. — 447 p. — ISBN-13 9781616149703. Бог и Мультивселенная: расширяющийся взгляд человечества на космос Cosmologists have reasons to believe that the vast universe in which we live is just one of an endless number of other universes within a multiverse—a mind-boggling array that may extend indefinitely in space and endlessly in both the past and...
Profile Books, 2016. — 204 p. — ISBN 9781782831501. In Calculating the Cosmos, Ian Stewart presents an exhilarating guide to the cosmos, from our solar system to the entire universe. He describes the architecture of space and time, dark matter and dark energy, how galaxies form, why stars implode, how everything began, and how it's all going to end. He considers parallel...
MIT Press, 2019. — 302 p. — ISBN: 978-0262043182. The Hubble Space Telescope has revolutionized our understanding of the universe. It has, among many other achievements, revealed thousands of galaxies in what seemed to be empty patches of sky; transformed our knowledge of black holes; found dwarf planets with moons orbiting other stars; and measured precisely how fast the...
Brian Thomas and Mary Evelyn Tucker, Keystone Typesetting, Inc., USA, 2011. –109 p. – ISBN: 0300171900 Today we know what no previous generation knew: the history of the universe and of the unfolding of life on Earth. Through the astonishing combined achievements of natural scientists worldwide, we now have a detailed account of how galaxies and stars, planets and living...
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2004. — 352 p. ISBN13: 9780393059922 Genres: Science Evolution, Science Astronomy Cosmology, Life Origin, Cosmology, Science Physics Cosmology, Evolution, Professional Technical Science B5 "Drawing on the current cross-pollination among geology, biology, astrophysics, and cosmology, Origins explains the soul-stirring leaps in our understanding of...
W. W. Norton & Company, 2017. — 224 p. The #1 New York Times Bestseller: The essential universe, from our most celebrated and beloved astrophysicist. What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There’s no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed astrophysicist and best-selling author Neil...
W. W. Norton & Company Ltd., 2009 — 208 p. ISBN10: 0393337324, ISBN13: 978-0393337327 The New York Times bestseller: You gotta read this. It is the most exciting book about Pluto you will ever read in your life.—Jon Stewart When the Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History reclassified Pluto as an icy comet, the New York Times proclaimed on page...
Penguin Press, 2023. — 448 p. From the bestselling authors of Soonish , a brilliant and hilarious off-world investigation into space settlement Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no war, no Twitter—beckons, and settling the stars finally seems within our grasp. Or is it? Critically acclaimed, bestselling authors Kelly...
New York: Scientific American Edit., 2022. — 180 p. — (Scientific American ebooks). — ISBN 9781250121608. Чудеса космоса "Cosmos" comes from a Greek word for an orderly and systematic universe. In this eBook, we present the most riveting discoveries and mind-bending ideas about our cosmic home, from what we know of the origins of the universe and the cartography of space to the...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012. - 155p.
Of all the natural disasters that could befall us, only an Earth impact by a large comet or asteroid has the potential to end civilization in a single blow. Yet these near-Earth objects also offer tantalizing clues to our solar system's origins, and someday could even serve as stepping-stones for space exploration. In this...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2016. — 575 с. — ISBN 978-5-9524-5195-7. Это необычная книга для тех, кто интересуется красотой и чудесами звездного неба. Изучив труды древних авторов, Аллен написал увлекательную историю о том, как люди разных культур давали имена созвездиям, как в течение многих веков их описывали в литературе и устных преданиях, о том. какие невероятные ассоциации...
М.: Либроком, 2009. — 737 с. Брайан Грин — один из ведущих физиков современности, автор «Элегантной Вселенной» — приглашает нас в очередное удивительное путешествие вглубь мироздания, которое поможет нам взглянуть в совершенно ином ракурсе на окружающую нас действительность. В книге рассматриваются фундаментальные вопросы, касающиеся классической физики, квантовой механики и...
М.: Молодая гвардия, 1971. — 94 с. В ноябре 1970 года наша планета стала весить на 756 килограммов меньше. Люди подарили Луне маленький кусочек Земли, и он начал путешествовать по загадочному Морю Дождей. «Луноход-1», пожалуй, одна из самых удивительных машин, созданных человеком. Ему пришлось работать в невероятно трудных условиях, он сражался с лунным «морозом» и «жарой»,...
Москва: АСТ, 2018. — 301 с. — (Научпоп Рунета). — ISBN: 978-5-17-109423-2. Покорители далеких планет часто становятся героями книг или фантастических фильмов. Они пересекают пояса астероидов, проносятся мимо живописных планет-гигантов, поднимаются на склоны инопланетных гор и любуются внеземными закатами… Будущее наступило, но не такое, как мы хотели. Теперь изучают и открывают...
Перев. с англ. — М.: София, 2008. — 416 с. Эта книга, конечно же, не развлекательное чтение. Это то, что называется «интеллектуальный бестселлер». Чем, собственно, занимается современная физика? Какова нынешняя модель Вселенной? Как понимать «многомерность» пространства и времени? Что такое параллельные миры? Автор этой книги, Мичио Каку, очень авторитетный ученый-физик....
Харків: Книжковий Клуб сімейного дозвілля, 2018. — 320 с. — ISBN: 978-1-4767-7761-0. Як виник Всесвіт? І як з’явилася наша реальність? І чому ми взагалі існуємо? Лоуренс Крайс запрошує вас у захопливу подорож, щоб дізнатися відповіді на ці та інші питання. В цій книзі він доступною мовою розповідає про фізику та її витоки, наукові дослідження появи Всесвіту, ділиться історіями...
Пер. с норв. Е. Иванова. — М.: Городец, 2022. — 256 с. — (Скандинавская линия «НордБук»). — ISBN 978-5-907483-06-4. За могущественной видимой Вселенной, которая ночами окутывает нас, скрывается нечто иное и гораздо более впечатляющее. Большинство астрономов сегодня считают, что девяносто пять процентов содержимого Вселенной невидимо. Все, что мы наблюдаем в повседневной жизни и...
СПб.: Питер, 2025. — 320 с. — ISBN 978-5-4461-4122-7. Ученые знают о том, как устроены наш мир, Вселенная, но знания эти чаще всего выражаются в виде формул, которые кажутся нам беспорядочным нагромождением букв и символов. Благодаря Шону Кэрроллу вы увидите в них вдохновляющую поэзию, взлетите в небеса, окрыленные ею, чтобы смотреть на чудесную многомерную страну –...
Переводчик: Каролина Льоренте-Касас. —- СПб.: Азбука-Аттикус, 2023. — 352 с. — ISBN 978-5389209572. С тех пор как Галилей впервые направил телескоп на звезды, астрономия стала кладезем развития творческого начала и бесконечным источником открытий. Эмили Левеск описывает мир профессионального астронома, прославляет изобретательность и любознательность и не перестает удивляться...
Москва: АСТ, 2017. — 200 с. — (Библиотека вундеркинда). В настоящее время астрономия – самая динамично развивающаяся наука. Ее вновь хотят ввести в школах. Но знаете ли вы, как устроено мироздание? Ответы на этот и множество других вопросов в своей новой книге дает известный популяризатор науки, автор бестселлера «Физика на пальцах» Александр Никонов. Из чего состоят звезды?...
СПб.: ТИД Амфора, 2015 . — 530 с. 8 илл. Пер. с англ. А. Сергеева. ISBN: 978-5-367-03594-0, 978-5-367-03595-7 Книга знаменитого американского астрофизика и популяризатора науки К. Сагана рассказывает об эволюции Вселенной, формировании галактик и зарождении жизни и разума. Автор прослеживает пути познания Вселенной – от прозрений древних мыслителей через открытия Кеплера,...
М.: МЦНМО, 2019. — 353 c. В книге представлены развернутые и отредактированные записи лекций, прочитанных в последние годы студентам различных специальностей. Базой для них стал межфакультетский курс МГУ «Основы астрономии». Эти лекции можно использовать как вводный курс для студентов естественно-научных факультетов (физиков, химиков, биологов, географов и геологов), а также...
СПб.: Питер, 2016. — 352 с.: ил. — (New Science). — ISBN: 978-5-496-01745-9. Наше происхождение началось не на Земле, а, на самом деле, в космосе. Основываясь на научных открытиях и исследованиях, где пересекаются несколько наук — геология, биология, астрофизика и космология, — вы узнаете, как сформировались наши знания о космосе. В этой книге Нил Деграсс Тайсон и Дональд...
3-е издание. — СПб.: Питер, 2024. — 386 с. — (New Science). — ISBN 978-5-4461-4089-3. «В начале всех начал была физика». 14 миллиардов лет. Полет нормальный. А ведь когда-то, сразу после Большого взрыва, Вселенная увеличилась настолько, что достигла размеров грейпфрута. За эти 10^(–33) секунды в ее истории прошла целая эпоха. Когда-то во Вселенной было настолько жарко, что в...
М.: Эксмо, 2019. — 321 с. — (Космос на ладони. Лучшие книги про Вселенную). Как будет выглядеть инопланетная жизнь, когда человечество ее обнаружит? Ученые Трефил и Саммерс (профессора физики и астрономии) предлагают читателям совершить воображаемое путешествие по далеким мирам и экзопланетам. Авторы используют самые современные научные данные для построения гипотез о том, как,...
Б.м.: Издательские решения, 2018. — 86 с. — ISBN 978-5-4490-4120-3. Об освоении воздушной целины Марса, о посадке космического самолёта с комбинированными силовыми установками, способными одинаково эффективно работать как в воздушной, так и в космической среде, о легкомоторном самолёте, работающем на низких высотах над Марсом. Условия обеспечения безопасности полётов,...
М.: АСТ, 2015. — 400 с.: 30 ил. — (Золотой фонд науки). — ISBN: 978-5-17-091484-5. Одиноки ли мы во Вселенной? Какие условия необходимы, чтобы возникла планета, пригодная для жизни? Надеется ли современная наука на встречу с внеземным разумом? И прав ли был Николай Коперник, когда утверждал, что мы сами и наше место в мироздании ничем не примечательны? Чтобы ответить на эти...
7-е изд. — М.: Экология и жизнь, 2006. — 312 с., ил. 24 с. — ISBN: 5-94702-029-7. К 90-летию со дня рождения радиоастронома № 1 И.С. Шкловского вновь издается его самая известная и, пожалуй, самая знаменитая из всех научно-популярных книг. Она посвящена проблеме возможности существования жизни, в том числе и разумной, на других планетных системах. Вместе с тем в книге...
М.: Янус, 1996. — 432 с. Посвящена проблеме возможности существования жизни, в том числе и разумной, на других планетных системах. Вместе с тем книга содержит достаточно полное и доступное изложение результатов современной астрофизики. Книга получила первую премию на конкурсе Общества "Знание" на лучшую научно-популярную книгу. Пятое издание было переработано в соответствии с...
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