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Morphological Astronomy

Author : Fritz Zwicky
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642875440
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (428 download)

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Download or read book Morphological Astronomy written by Fritz Zwicky and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Man has a great tendency to get lost or to hide, as the case may be, in a jungle of details and in unnecessary complications. Why do anything simply if you can do it complicated? And still, life itself presents a sufficient number of problems to keep us busy. There would seem to be no need to create additional difficulties, just for the fun of it, especially if these self-made difficulties become practically insuperable and if in the end they cause much unhappiness. The morphological mode of thought and of action was conceived to break the vicious hold which the parasitic wild growth of complications exerts on life in all of its phases. Morphological thought and action are likely to be of value in all human activities, once such thought and action have been clearly delineated and fully developed, and once they have been practised by a sufficiently large number of people. Since the morphological method is of the greatest universality, the choice of the field to which one applies it first is not particulary critical. The author intends to write two or three books on the morphology of several large scale problems, which are both of a technical and of a general social nature. The present book is concerned in particular with some implications of morphological thinking in astronomy. We shall above all emphasize the basic character of the morphological approach, and we shall demonstrate its constructive power in a number of specific cases.

Galaxy Morphology

Author : B. W. Holwerda
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780750334990
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Galaxy Morphology written by B. W. Holwerda and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Galaxy morphology is a long-standing subfield of astronomy, moving from visual qualifications to quantitative morphometrics. This book covers the descriptions developed by astronomers to describe the appearance of galaxies, primarily in optical, ultraviolet and near-infrared wavelengths.

Toward a New Millennium in Galaxy Morphology

Author : David L. Block
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401141142
Total Pages : 798 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Toward a New Millennium in Galaxy Morphology written by David L. Block and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Africa - a land of paradigm shifts. A land where we are willing to leave behind the old, to bravely accept the new. What do we need to exit the dark ages in the morphology of galaxies? How prevalent is the cherishing of old concepts? Traditional morphology has been `mask-oriented', focusing on masks of dust and gas which may constitute only 5 percent of the dynamical mass of a galaxy. Some of the world's foremost astronomers flew to South Africa to address morphologically related issues at an International Conference, the proceedings of which are contained in this volume. Examine predicted extinction curves for primordial dust at high redshift. Stars evolve; why not dust? Read about the breakdown of the Hubble sequence at a redshift of one. Explore the morphology of rings; the mysteries of metal-rich globular clusters; vigorous star-formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud; the world of secular evolution, where galaxies change their shapes within one Hubble time. And much more. Examine a new kinematical classification scheme of the unmasked, dust-penetrated near-infrared images of spiral galaxies. This volume contains over 80 refereed contributions (including 18 in-depth keynote review articles), 40 pages of questions and answers, a panel discussion transcribed from tape and 24 colour plates. The volume is unique in that contributions from both high and low redshift experts are represented at a level readily accessible to postdoctoral students entering the exciting world of morphology - whether it be of the local, or more distant, Universe.

NASA Conference Publication

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 744 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book NASA Conference Publication written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Essays on the History of Rocketry and Astronautics

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays on the History of Rocketry and Astronautics written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Space Observatories

Author : Jean-Claude Pecker
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 940103320X
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Space Observatories written by Jean-Claude Pecker and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Le ciel est, par-dessus le toit, The sky is, up above the roof, Si bleu, si calme! So blue, so calm! Un arbre, par-dessus Je toit, A tree there, up above the roof, Berce sa palme. Waves leaves of palm. La cloche, dans le ciel qu'on voit, A church bell, in the sky I see, Doucement tinte. Softly tolls. Un oiseau, sur l'arbre qu'on voit, A bird, upon the tree I see, Chante sa plainte. Sadly calls. PAUL VERLAINE Like Verlaine, we are in prison. The prison is our Earth, "which is so pretty"; our atmosphere and its clouds, its "marvellous clouds". (You would think that Verlaine, Prevert and Baudelaire had been comparing notes!) The sky is up above the roof ... A tree there, up above the roof ... Stars in the sky, like birds ... their rays, like bells (and here we are with Apollinaire!) What we see opens the way to what we guess at; what we observe Ieads us towards the unobservable. A poem releases images, and the invisible grows big with reality. Astronomcrs are a little like poets (indirectly from the Greek 7tostco, make): they make the universe by interpreting messages, extrapolating spectra, and inventing 'models' of the cosmos or of stars - fictional constructions whose observable part constitutes only a small fraction of the whole, and which only the inductive logic of the theoretician allows us to consider as representing unique physical reality.

Inner Space/Outer Space

Author : Edward Kolb
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226450322
Total Pages : 682 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Inner Space/Outer Space written by Edward Kolb and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1986-04 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inner Space/Outer Space brings together much of the exciting work contributing to a new synthesis of modern physics. Particle physicists, concerned with the "inner space" of the atom, are making discoveries that their colleagues in astrophysics, studying outer space, can use to develop and test hypotheses about the events that occurred in the microseconds after the Big Bang and that shaped the universe as we know it today. The papers collected here, from scores of scientists, constitute the proceedings of the first major international conference on research at the interface of particle physics and astrophysics, held in May 1984. The editors have written introductions to each major section that draw out the central themes and elaborate on the primary implications of the papers that follow.

Penetrating Bars through Masks of Cosmic Dust

Author : David L. Block
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402028628
Total Pages : 890 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Penetrating Bars through Masks of Cosmic Dust written by David L. Block and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE EDITORS: DAVID L. BLOCK AND KENNETH C. FREEMAN (SOC CO-CHAIRS), IVANIO PUERARI, ROBERT GROESS AND LIZ K. BLOCK 1. Harvard College Observatory, 1958 The past century has truly brought about an explosive period of growth and discovery for the physical sciences as a whole, and for astronomy in particular. Galaxy morphology has reached a renaissance . . The year: 1958. The date: October 1. The venue: Harvard College Observatory. The lecturer: Walter Baade. With amazing foresight, Baade penned these words: "Young stars, supergiants and so on, make a terrific splash - lots of light. The total mass of these can be very small compared to the total mass of the system". Dr Layzer then asked the key question: " . . . the discussion raises the point of what this classification would look like if you were to ignore completely all the Population I, and just focus attention on the Population II . . . " We stand on the shoulders of giants. The great observer E. E. Barnard, in his pioneering efforts to photograph the Milky Way, devoted the major part of his life to identifying and numbering dusty "holes" and dust lanes in our Milky Way. No one could have dreamt that the pervasiveness of these cosmic dust masks (not only in our Galaxy but also in galaxies at high redshift) is so great, that their "penetration" is truly one of the pioneering challenges from both space-borne telescopes and from the ground.

Space Settlements

Author : Richard D. Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Space Settlements written by Richard D. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

In Search of Dark Matter

Author : Ken Freeman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387276181
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book In Search of Dark Matter written by Ken Freeman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-08-25 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written for the educated non-scientist and scientist alike, it spans a variety of scientific disciplines, from observational astronomy to particle physics. Concepts that the reader will encounter along the way are at the cutting edge of scientific research. However the themes are explained in such a way that no prior understanding of science beyond a high school education is necessary.

Teaching & Researching Big History: Exploring a New Scholarly Field

Author : Leonid Grinin
Publisher : ООО "Издательство "Учитель"
ISBN 13 : 5705740271
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Teaching & Researching Big History: Exploring a New Scholarly Field written by Leonid Grinin and published by ООО "Издательство "Учитель". This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to the working definition of the International Big History Association, ‘Big History seeks to understand the integrated history of the Cosmos, Earth, Life and Humanity, using the best available empirical evidence and scholarly methods.’ In recent years Big History has been developing very fast indeed. Big History courses are taught in the schools and universities of several dozen countries. Hundreds of researchers are involved in studying and teaching Big History. The unique approach of Big History, the interdisciplinary genre of history that deals with the grand narrative of 13.8 billion years, has opened up a vast amount of research agendas. Big History brings together constantly updated information from the scientific disciplines and merges it with the contemplative realms of philosophy and the humanities. It also provides a connection between the past, present, and future. Big History is a colossal and extremely heterogeneous field of research encompassing all the forms of existence and all timescales. Unsurprisingly, Big History may be presented in very different aspects and facets. In this volume the Big History is presented and discussed in three different ways. In its first part, Big History is explored in terms of methodology, theories of knowledge, as well as showcasing the personal approach of scholars to Big History. The second section comprises such articles that could clarify Big History's main trends and laws. The third part of this book explores the nature of teaching Big History as well as profiling a number of educational methods. This volume will be useful both for those who study interdisciplinary macroproblems and for specialists working in focused directions, as well as for those who are interested in evolutionary issues of Astrophysics, Geology, Biology, History, Anthropology, Linguistics and other areas of study. More than that, this edition will challenge and excite your vision of your own life and the exciting new discoveries going on around us!

Galaxy Morphology and Classification

Author : Sidney Van den Bergh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521623359
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (216 download)

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Download or read book Galaxy Morphology and Classification written by Sidney Van den Bergh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-04-16 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise and up-to-date guide to the shape of galaxies and how they can be classified, by one of the pioneers of the field.

Transactions of the International Astronomical Union

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Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 806 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transactions of the International Astronomical Union written by and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Century of Space Science

Author : J.A. Bleeker
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401003203
Total Pages : 1819 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Century of Space Science written by J.A. Bleeker and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 1819 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most attractive features of the young discipline of Space Science is that many of the original pioneers and key players involved are still available to describe their field. Hence, at this point in history we are in a unique position to gain first-hand insight into the field and its development. To this end, The Century of Space Science, a scholarly, authoritative, reference book presents a chapter-by-chapter retrospective of space science as studied in the 20th century. The level is academic and focuses on key discoveries, how these were arrived at, their scientific consequences and how these discoveries advanced the thoughts of the key players involved. With over 90 world-class contributors, such as James Van Allen, Cornelis de Jager, Eugene Parker, Reimar Lüst, and Ernst Stuhlinger, and with a Foreword by Lodewijk Woltjer (past ESO Director General), this book will be immensely useful to readers in the fields of space science, astronomy, and the history of science. Both academic institutions and researchers will find that this major reference work makes an invaluable addition to their collection.

Birth and Evolution of Massive Stars and Stellar Groups

Author : Wilfried Boland
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400954786
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Birth and Evolution of Massive Stars and Stellar Groups written by Wilfried Boland and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of a Symposium held in Dwingeloo, The Netherlands, September 24-26, 1984 in honour of Adriaan Blaauw on the occasion of his 70th birthday

Shrouds of the Night

Author : David L. Block
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387789758
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (877 download)

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Download or read book Shrouds of the Night written by David L. Block and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-01-05 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Milky Way has captivated the mind of multitudes ever since the beginning of time. Particularly striking are its apparent dusty gaping voids. With the advent of near-infrared technology, astronomers have discovered an awesome new view of its structure, and of the structure of other galaxies around us. Galaxies are encased within Shrouds of the Night: shrouds or veils of cosmic dust, which have given us a totally incomplete picture of what our majestic Universe actually looks like. In this book, we feature some of the remarkable early photographic work of masters such as Isaac Roberts and Edward Barnard, before presenting to the reader the unmasked (dust penetrated) view of our cosmos, using some of the world’s largest ground and space-based telescopes.

Scale Relativity and Fractal Space-time

Author : Laurent Nottale
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 1848166508
Total Pages : 766 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Scale Relativity and Fractal Space-time written by Laurent Nottale and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2011 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive survey of the state-of-the-art in the development of the theory of scale relativity and fractal space-time. It suggests an original solution to the disunified nature of the classical-quantum transition in physical systems, enabling quantum mechanics to be based on the principle of relativity provided this principle is extended to scale transformations of the reference system. In the framework of such a newly-generalized relativity theory (including position, orientation, motion and now scale transformations), the fundamental laws of physics may be given a general form that goes beyond and integrates the classical and the quantum regimes. A related concern of this book is the geometry of space-time, which is described as being fractal and nondifferentiable. It collects and organizes theoretical developments and applications in many fields, including physics, mathematics, astrophysics, cosmology and life sciences.