The Star by Which We Live: Discovering the Secrets of the Sun

The Star by Which We Live: Discovering the Secrets of the Sun


Yazar Rudolf Kippenhahn
Yayınevi Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 9780471943631
Baskı yılı 1994
Sayfa sayısı 280
Ağırlık 0.45 kg
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This is a survey of our current knowledge of the closest and most important star. It unravels the complexities of astrophysics in language that is easy to understand. After reviewing how our knowledge of the Sun has been acquired over the centuries, it ex
The Suns energy; sunspots; sunlight; telescopes, spectra and eclipses; the monochromatic sun; the magnetic sun; solar plasma; tracking down the solar dynamo; the sun inside a computer; oscillations of the Sun; the radio sun; to the Sun; Sun and Earth; tap