Astrophysics

The Spatialities of Radio Astronomy examines the multidisciplinary overlap between the spatial disciplines and the studies of science and technolog...

This book offers new findings on the impact of galaxy mergers on galaxy evolution and related processes. Galaxies are astronomical objects composed...

This third edition of The Physics of the Interstellar Medium continues to introduce advanced undergraduates to the fundamental processes and the wi...

Identifying and measuring the elemental x-rays released when materials are examined with particles (electrons, protons, alpha particles, etc.) or p...

Some 400 years after the first known patent application for a telescope by Hans Lipperhey, The Astronomy Revolution: 400 Years of Exploring the Cos...

First Published in 1992. This book arose as a result of the authors work on the review Solitary Vortices in Plasmas written for the Soviet Journal ...

Helping readers understand the complicated laws of nature, Advanced Particle Physics Volume II: The Standard Model and Beyond explains the calculat...

This third edition of The Physics of the Interstellar Medium continues to introduce advanced undergraduates to the fundamental processes and the wi...

Black holes are one of the most fascinating predictions of general relativity. They are the natural product of the complete gravitational collaps...

Orbital motions have always been used to test gravitational theories which, from time to time, have challenged the then-dominant paradigms. This bo...

How did life originate? Is there life beyond Earth? What is the future of life on our planet? The rapidly growing multidisciplinary field of astrob...

In the Middle Ages and early modernity, celestial observation was frequently a subject for verbal rather than numerical and geometrical recording....

Opportunities for High-Power, High-Frequency Transmitters to Advance Ionospheric/Thermospheric Research is the summary of a workshop convened by th...

A rigorous and scientific analysis of the myriad possibilities of life beyond our planet.Are we alone in the universe? This tantalizing question ha...

Impressive events of magnetic energy release, such as solar and stellar flares and coronal mass ejections, take place in the atmospheric layers abo...

This book explores the questions of What, Why, When, How and Where we might find extra-Terrestrials (a.k.a. Aliens) and their habitats throughout t...

This book aims to present the topic of nonlinear and chaotic dynamics in a manner that is useful and beneficial to students and young researchers f...

Scopo del testo e' introdurre i concetti base della fisica stellare, della fisica delle galassie e della cosmologia con approccio essenzialmente fi...