Research Catalog

Title

Nearest star : the surprising science of our sun / Leon Golub & Jay M. Pasachoff.

Author

Golub, L. (Leon)

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2001.

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Additional Authors

Pasachoff, Jay M.

Description

xii, 267 pages : illustrations (some color); 25 cm

Summary

• "Unlike the myriad points of light we gaze at in the night sky, our nearest star allows us to study the wonders of stellar workings at blindingly close range - from a mere 93 million miles away. And what do we see? In this book, two of the world's leading solar scientists unfold all that history and science - from the first cursory observations to the measurements obtained by the latest state-of-the-art instruments on the ground and in space - have revealed about the Sun.
• Following the path of science from the very center of this 380,000,000,000,000,000,000-megawatt furnace to its explosive surface, Nearest Star invites readers into an open-ended narrative of discovery about what we know about the Sun and how we have learned it."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

Sun

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-243) and index.

Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. The Once and Future Sun -- 3. What We See -- 4. What We Don't See -- 5. Eclipses -- 6. Space Missions -- 7. Between Fire and Ice -- 8. Space Weather.

ISBN

0674004671 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

00063213

OCLC

• 44905108
• ocm44905108
• SCSB-4212589

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries