Nearest Star - Softcover

Golub, Leon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107672643 ISBN 13: 9781107672642

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2014

Synopsis

How 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 to 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 the telescopes.

About this title

Book Description:

The Sun is the only star near enough to study in sufficient detail to help us understand more distant and exotic objects in the cosmos. This Second Edition from two experienced solar astronomers is updated throughout, and features results from the current spacecraft, especially NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory.

About the Author:

Leon Golub is a Senior Astrophysicist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, and has been studying the Sun and solar-type stars since the Skylab missions in 1973-4 and the Einstein Observatory in 1978. He is the head of the Solar-Stellar X-ray Group at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and has been involved in building and flying cutting-edge space instrumentation for the past thirty years. He is Chair of the Solar Physics Division of the American Astronomical Society and has written many popular articles on subjects ranging from astronomy and philosophy to music criticism.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1107672643
• ISBN 13: 9781107672642
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 330