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The Sun Today (eBook)

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2019 | 1st ed. 2018
XI, 111 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-04079-6 (ISBN)

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The Sun Today - Claudio Vita-Finzi
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There are several billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy. One of them is the middle-aged G2V yellow dwarf that rules our lives.  The Sun Today discusses the Sun's appearance and composition, its internal workings, and the various kinds of radiation it emits, and it puts forward a novel explanation for coronal heating. The book draws on the findings of telescopic observation, space missions, and technical and theoretical advances in many fields, and shows why we need to know more if we are to understand and manage our foothold in the Universe.

From the reviews of other books by Claudio Vita-Finzi:

The Sun - A User's Manual (2008)

....this, jargon-free, concise, beautifully illustrated and eminently readable book ...
D.W. Hughes, Times Literary Supplement

 

Solar History (2013)

....a book that is supremely informative, intensely stimulating and enjoyable to read...
Ian Seymour, Astronomy Now

 

A History of the Solar System (2016)

...there is a huge amount of useful information in this book that would benefit  anyone who needed more detail than is available in a typical popular science title.
Brian Clegg, Popular Science



Claudio Vita-Finzi was born in Sydney, Australia, and educated in Argentina and the UK (BSc, PhD, ScD were all obtained at Cambridge University). He taught Geology and Planetary Science at University College London before moving to the Natural History Museum where he has been Scientific Associate in the Department of Earth Sciences working on solar fluctuations since 2001. He was awarded the Warren Prize of the US Academy of Sciences in 1994 and was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1997 and the British Academy in 2012. His books include The Mediterranean Valleys (1969), Recent Earth History (1973), Archaeological Sites (1978), Recent Earth Movements (1986), Monitoring the Earth (2002), Planetary Geology (2005), The Sun: A User's Manual (2008), Solar History (2012), and A History of the Solar System (2016), the last three published by Springer.

Claudio Vita-Finzi was born in Sydney, Australia, and educated in Argentina and the UK (BSc, PhD, ScD were all obtained at Cambridge University). He taught Geology and Planetary Science at University College London before moving to the Natural History Museum where he has been Scientific Associate in the Department of Earth Sciences working on solar fluctuations since 2001. He was awarded the Warren Prize of the US Academy of Sciences in 1994 and was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1997 and the British Academy in 2012. His books include The Mediterranean Valleys (1969), Recent Earth History (1973), Archaeological Sites (1978), Recent Earth Movements (1986), Monitoring the Earth (2002), Planetary Geology (2005), The Sun: A User's Manual (2008), Solar History (2012), and A History of the Solar System (2016), the last three published by Springer.

Preface

1. A commonplace star 

A G2V starSun-like stars

Observing the Sun

2.An inconstant star

The solar constant

Spectral effects

3.Solar compositionThe photosphereAbundancesMeteoritesThe solar bodySolar volumeSolar diameterWaves and vibrations5. The solar furnaceThe nuclear coreCoronal heating6. Solar magnetismThe heliosphereThe Global FieldMagnetic structures on the solar surfaceImpact on the Earth7. Sun and weatherGalactic cosmic raysUVHeliohydrologyIndex

Erscheint lt. Verlag 21.1.2019
Zusatzinfo XI, 111 p. 72 illus., 68 illus. in color.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Astronomie / Astrophysik
Technik
Schlagworte climate change • global warming • heliophysics • Planetary climate change • Solar energy • Solar Luminosity • solar radiation • Solar Storm • solar wind • Space climate • Space Missions • Sun and Climate Change • Sun's influence • Sun's interaction with Earth • Sun's variability
ISBN-10 3-030-04079-8 / 3030040798
ISBN-13 978-3-030-04079-6 / 9783030040796
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