Sun, Earth and Sky (eBook)

Kenneth R. Lang (Autor)

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2007 | 2nd ed. 2006
XV, 284 Seiten
Springer New York (Verlag)
978-0-387-33365-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Written in a light and friendly style, this lavishly illustrated book introduces the Sun and its physics, and describes all aspects of the Sun's interaction with us on Earth. The second edition of this book updates the popular text by providing comprehensive accounts of the most recent discoveries made by five modern solar spacecraft during the past decade. It contains a number of images never before seen in print. Breakthrough observations with the underground Sudbury Neutrino Observatory are also included. The new edition further provides modern interpretations of ozone depletion and global warming.

Professor Lang has written several books about the Sun, as well as widely used reference works in astronomy and astrophysics. He has carried out radio observations of the active Sun with the Very Large Array in support of the SOHO spacecraft, teaches an extremely popular introductory course about the Sun to Tufts University students with non-scientific majors, and has served for two years as Visiting Senior Scientist in Solar Physics at NASA Headquarters.

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This Second Edition of Sun, Earth and Sky updates the popular text by providing comprehensive accounts of the most recent discoveries made by five modern solar spacecraft during the past decade. Their instruments have used sound waves to peer deep into the Sun's inner regions and measure the temperature of its central nuclear reactor, and extended our gaze far from the visible Sun to record energetic outbursts that threaten Earth. Breakthrough observations with the underground Sudbury Neutrino Observatory are also included, which explain the new physics of ghostly neutrinos and solve the problematic mismatch between the predicted and observed amounts of solar neutrinos. This new edition of Sun, Earth and Sky also describes our recent understanding of how the Sun's outer atmosphere is heated to a million degrees, and just where the Sun's continuous winds come from. As humans we are more intimately linked with our life-sustaining Sun than with any other astronomical object, and the new edition therefore provides modern interpretations of ozone depletion and global warming that are related to both the Sun and to human activities. Written in a light and friendly style, this lavishly illustrated book introduces the Sun and its physics, and describes all aspects of the Sun's interaction with us on Earth.

Inhalt

Preface to the Second Edition 6
Preface to the First Edition 8
Contents 12
Good Day, Sunshine 17
Energizing the Sun 37
Ghostlike Neutrinos 55
Taking the Pulse of the Sun 77
A Magnetic Star 95
An Unseen World of Perpetual Change 121
The Violent Sun 151
Energizing Space 179
Transforming the Earth's Life-Sustaining Atmosphere 207
Quotation References 247
Glossary 251
Directory of web sites 283
Further reading 284
Author Index 286
Subject Index 289

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.12.2007
• Zusatzinfo: XV, 284 p.
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Corona • Planet • Satellite • Solar • Solar flare • solar wind • Star • Sun • SunSPOT
• ISBN-10: 0-387-33365-7 / 0387333657
• ISBN-13: 978-0-387-33365-6 / 9780387333656