The Sun As A Star

Author : Roger John Tayler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Science
ISBN : 052146837X

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The Sun as a Star by Roger John Tayler Pdf

As our nearest star, the Sun offers a unique opportunity to study stellar physics in action. Following the success of his previous books, Galaxies and The Stars, Roger Tayler presents the first full picture of how studies of the Sun and the solar system help us understand stars in general and other planetary systems. Using mathematics appropriate for advanced undergraduate students in physics, this textbook provides a broad and wide-ranging introduction to the Sun as a star. Succinct derivations of key results - such as the properties of spectral lines, the theory of stellar oscillations, plasma physics, magnetohydrodynamics and dynamo theory - are provided in a number of handy appendices, ensuring that the book is completely self contained. Altogether, this is an invaluable textbook for students studying the Sun, stars, the solar-terrestrial environment and the formation of planetary systems.

Author : Nicola Yoon
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780385683692

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The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon Pdf

#1 New York Times bestselling author Nicola Yoon is back with her second book, and just like Everything, Everything, it's an instant classic with a love story that's just as intense as Maddy and Olly's--get ready for Natasha and Daniel. This book is inspired by Big History (to learn about one thing, you have to learn about everything). In The Sun is Also a Star, to understand the characters and their love story, we must know everything around them and everything that came before them that has affected who they are and what they experience. Two teens--Daniel, the son of Korean shopkeepers, and Natasha, whose family is here illegally from Jamaica--cross paths in New York City on an eventful day in their lives--Daniel is on his way to an interview with a Yale alum, Natasha is meeting with a lawyer to try and prevent her family's deportation to Jamaica--and fall in love.

Author : Frank Asch
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0152063978

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The Sun Is My Favorite Star by Frank Asch Pdf

A girl describes why she loves the Sun and the many ways in which it helps the earth and the life upon it.

Author : Dick Frizzell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 099514656X

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The Sun Is a Star by Dick Frizzell Pdf

'The universe -- and everything in it -- is always expanding into tomorrow . . . What a scene, eh? More magic than magic. Magic, mysterious and beautiful. And here we are. On the third rock from the sun, figuring it out.'In this enchanting book for readers of all ages, renowned New Zealand painter Dick Frizzell takes his lifelong interest in the stars, the planets, space and the universe and turns it into a book that demystifies everything from White Dwarves and blackholes to space travel. His artist friends, including John Pule, Greg O'Brien, JohnReynolds, Judy Darragh, Reuben Patterson, Grahame Sydney, Karl Maughan, AniO'Neill, Reg Mombassa and Wayne Youle, provide the illustrations.

Author : Christopher Cooper
Publisher : Race Point Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781627880763

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Our Sun by Christopher Cooper Pdf

Our sun is one star among 50 billion in the galaxy. Our galaxy is only one among 50 billion in the universe. With a vastness this incomprehensible, it is easy to feel like we are mere specks of sand on an endless shore. But our sun is special. Though roughly 150 million kilometers separate us, we could not be more connected. Literally, everything you see comes from the sun. The words you are reading now are really photons that left the sun about 8 minutes ago only to bounce off this page and into your eyes. We owe our very existence to our sun. It provides just enough heat to keep our fragile bodies from freezing to ice or burning to a crisp. Every bite of food we eat we owe to the sun, whose energy is converted into plants that provide sustenance for everything up the food chain. DIV/divDIVWe have understood the sun’s importance for millennia. The earliest humans, awestruck by its blazing splendor, left drawings of the sun on cave walls. Nearly every civilization, no matter where it sprang up on the planet, has revered the sun. Myths about the sun were the basis of the earliest deities of ancient Sumerian, Hindu, Egyptian, Chinese, and Meso-American cultures. Before Apollo, the ancient Greeks worshiped the sun-god Ares. Before Zeus, the ancient Romans worshiped Sol./divDIV/divDIVThroughout our history, the sun has been central to humanity’s quest for meaning in the universe. But our history has been a brief moment in our sun’s 4.5 billion year life. Only recently, through advances in science and technology, have we begun to understand our sun - where it came from, how it functions, how it affects our lives and how it eventually will destroy our planet./divDIV/divDIVOur Sun is a comprehensive, easy-to-understand guide to everything we know about our closest star. Illustrated with stunning pictures from NASA’s newly-launched Solar Dynamics Observatory, Our Sun will reveal the science behind the sun, trace its impact on human history, and reveal its growing importance to our future way of life./div

Author : Kate Petty
Publisher : Copper Beach Books
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0761305939

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The Sun is a Star by Kate Petty Pdf

Provides information about stars, the sun and the planets, comets, and other astronomical phenomena.

Author : Franklyn M. Branley
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2002-05-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780064452021

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The Sun by Franklyn M. Branley Pdf

The sun brings heat, warmth, and energy to the Earth. What is the sun made of? How big is it? How far away? Read and find out!

Author : Dane Rudhyar
Publisher : Aurora Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0943358132

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The Galactic Dimension of Astrology by Dane Rudhyar Pdf

Rudhyar expands traditional Astrological philosophy by introducing a galactic view of the solar system. Contents include: A Galactic Approach to the Solar System; Planets of Organic Functioning; The Uranus-Neptune Polarity; Pluto and the Experience of Depth, Void, and Recentring; The Interpenetrating Cycles of Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto; Transpersonal Relationships and the Galactic Community; etc.

Author : Colin Stuart
Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781789290455

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Rebel Star by Colin Stuart Pdf

A fascinating and comprehensive guide to the sun - our home star - which remains the greatest mystery in the solar system, and why understanding it is pivotal to our future existence here on Earth. In 1869, a great mystery was born. As astronomers observed a total solar eclipse, for the first time they saw the faint glow of the solar corona, the sun's outer atmosphere. Measurements of a previously unknown wavelength that made up this solar light sparked hot debate among scientists, but it was another sixty years before they discovered that this wavelength was in fact iron being burned at a staggering 3 million degrees Celsius. With the sun's surface only 6,000 degrees, this shouldn't be possible. What we now knew about the sun appeared to defy the laws of physics - and nature. But as well as being shrouded in intriguing mystery, the unpredictable nature of the sun's corona poses a serious threat to our life here on earth - the destructive potential of solar storms, caused by solar material travelling out into space at around 1 million miles an hour, is huge. Remaining beyond our reach until now, a new generation of ambitious solar missions are currently travelling closer to the sun than any previous spacecraft in history. As we enter this unprecedented era of heliophysics, there has never been a better time to get to grips with the workings of our home star.

Author : Martha E. H. Rustad
Publisher : Millbrook Press ™
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781467792004

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Does Sun Sleep? by Martha E. H. Rustad Pdf

Have you ever watched the sun rise or set? Do you know why the moon changes shape every night? Join Mr. Cruz's class as they observe patterns in the nighttime sky. They'll learn why the moon glows, what groups of stars are called when they make shapes, and if the sun actually does sleep at night!

Author : Louise Willingham
Publisher : SRL Publishing Ltd
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Not Quite Out by Louise Willingham Pdf

William Anson is done with relationships, thanks. He's starting the second year of his medicine degree single, focused, and ready to mingle with purely platonic intentions. Meeting Daniel, a barely recovered drug addict ready to start living life on his own terms, might just change that. There are two problems. One: William isn't out. What's the point in telling your friends you're bisexual when you aren't going to date anyone? Two: Daniel's abusive ex-boyfriend still roams the university campus, searching for cracks in Daniel's recovery. No matter how quickly William falls for Daniel, their friendship is too important to risk ruining over a crush. William is fine with being just friends for the rest of forever. Well, not quite. Content warning - This book includes references to abortion, PTSD, drug addiction, abusive relationships, and self-harm.

Author : Simon F. Green,Mark H. Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2004-02-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521546222

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An Introduction to the Sun and Stars by Simon F. Green,Mark H. Jones Pdf

Compiled by a team of experts, this textbook has been designed for elementary university courses in astronomy and astrophysics. It starts with a detailed discussion of our nearest star, the Sun, and describes how solar physicists have come to understand its internal workings. It then considers how astronomers go about studying the basic physical properties and life-cycles of more distant stars, and culminates with a discussion of the formation of exotic objects such as neutron stars and black holes. Written in an accessible style that avoids complex mathematics, and illustrated in colour throughout, this book is suitable for self-study and will appeal to amateur astronomers as well as undergraduate students. It contains numerous helpful learning features such as boxed summaries, student exercises with full solutions, and a glossary of terms. The book is also supported by a website hosting further teaching materials.

Author : Gary Rottman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Artifcial satellies
ISBN : UCSD:31822030856223

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SORCE by Gary Rottman Pdf

Author : John A. Eddy
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0160838088

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The Sun, the Earth, and Near-earth Space by John A. Eddy Pdf

" ... Concise explanations and descriptions - easily read and readily understood - of what we know of the chain of events and processes that connect the Sun to the Earth, with special emphasis on space weather and Sun-Climate."--Dear Reader.

Author : David Jefferis
Publisher : Crabtree Publishing Company
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0778737330

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The Sun by David Jefferis Pdf

Introduces the sun, its physical characteristics, and the history of human observation of the sun.