How do I get started in astronomy? Should I buy binoculars or a telescope? What can I expect to see? This wonderful beginners' guide to astronomy covers all the information you need to get started. This second edition has been fully updated and now includes new illustrations, the latest astronomy equipment and celestial events through to the year 2025. It starts by explaining the basic techniques and equipment you need for exploring the skies before taking you on a tour of the night sky, c...

Top ten Sunday Times Bestseller‘Engaging, ambitious and creative’ GuardianWhere are we? Are we alone? Who are we? Why are we here? What is our future?Human Universe tackles some of the greatest questions that humans have asked to try and understand the very nature of ourselves and the Universe in which we live.Through the endless leaps of human minds, it explores the extraordinary ...

Aristarchus of Samos (also known as Aristarchos) lived between 310 and 230 B.C. He was a mathematician and astronomer, and was the first to suggest the heliocentric model of the universe. His only surviving work, On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon, discusses this model.

Trying to get a sense of scale in the Solar System can be difficult, because the distances involved are outside the realm of ordinary experience. Planets and other bodies also move at much greater speeds than ordinary household objects. For example, 1 km/sec is pretty fast for a bullet, but slow compared to any of the planets. It would take you a very long time to get anywhere in the Solar System, moving at that speed. In order to get a sense of the speeds of things, let's start with some ...

An extraterrestrial civilization created human civilization and all other life on Earth. There was a time when mankind knew about these beings, but as religion and science took over the world, people forgot their true origins.Religion and science remain at odds, but they continue to work together to erase all knowledge of the extraterrestrials. The only thing that hints at the truth is the continued reports of unidentified flying objects and other unexplained pheno...

The subject of Sun, Moon and Stars, based on thematic studies conducted by Fernando D'Amico and Jacques Wisman, is proposed in this book as a themed walk through the passages of Scripture from the Old and New Testament. The biblical text (KJV) is presented deliberately devoid of additional comments to offer an immediate and direct perception of the selected track.The thematic reading of the biblical text opens to the reader as a fascinating experience that allows him to benefit in a...

Universe and Solar System Series: Theories of the UniverseHaving trouble on Physics? Need to find out information about the Big Bang theories, and how the Universe came to existence?. This is an excellent book if you need, or want; to learn about the Big Bang Theory, String Theory, Inflation Theory, and the theories of how scientists predict our universe will end. All of the information in my eBook has been validated by my tutors; and have received the grade Distinction.

The past few years have seen an incredible explosion in our knowledge of the universe. Since its 2009 launch, the Kepler satellite has discovered more than two thousand exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system. More exoplanets are being discovered all the time, and even more remarkable than the sheer number of exoplanets is their variety. In Exoplanets, astronomer Michael Summers and physicist James Trefil explore these remarkable recent discoveries: planets revolving aroun...

Physics and Chemistry of the Solar System, 2nd Edition, is a comprehensive survey of the planetary physics and physical chemistry of our own solar system. It covers current research in these areas and the planetary sciences that have benefited from both earth-based and spacecraft-based experimentation. These experiments form the basis of this encyclopedic reference, which skillfully fuses synthesis and explanation. Detailed chapters review each of the major planetary bodies as well as aste...

Volume 31 is a continuation of Volume 30. It's a republication of "Sunflower Diaries," Volume 31. it covers news articles of Psychic Significance for 7/19 of 2014. It cites how scientists noticed that all the Sunspots on the surface of the Sun disappeared on 7/17 of 2014 on the day I didn't publish. It also cites Alex Pettyfer getting into a fight with bodybuilders a day after I cited "Beastly." This volume is especially unique because it cites calendar dates from a publication in 2013 of ...

The Mythology of the Night Sky is intended primarily for amateur astronomers who would like to know the mythology behind the names of constellations and planets. It deals with the 48 constellations identified by the ancient Greek astronomer Ptolemy, as well as all the planets of our solar system and their moons, which are named after Roman gods.To assist practical observers the book gives the location and description of each constellation, including named stars and deep-sk...

Meteorites - as well as shooting stars and meteors - result from a collision of a solid body from space with our Earth, but only meteorites are able to penetrate the Earth's protective shield, the atmosphere, and fall to the Earth's surface. Before the return of lunar samples, they were the only materials from beyond the Earth which we could take in hand and study.This book gives a concise and up-to-date description of meteorites - fall phenomena, chemical and mineral composition, c...