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Nearest star : the surprising science of our sun
- 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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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Pasachoff, Jay M.
- Description
- xii, 267 pages : illustrations (some color); 25 cm
- Summary
- Two of the world's leading solar scientists show how astronomers study the Sun and what they have discovered about phenomena from eclipses to neutrinos, space weather, and global warming. Includes illustrations from the latest solar missions and the newest telescopes. 22 color illustrations. 67 halftones. Leon Golub & Jay M. Pasachoff, two of the world's leading solar scientists, invite readers into an open-ended narrative of discovery about what we know about the Sun & how we have learned it.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-243) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Once and future sun -- What we see -- What we don't see -- Eclipses -- Space missions -- Between fire and ice -- Space weather.
- ISBN
- 0674004671
- 9780674004672
- 067401006X
- 9780674010062
- LCCN
- 00063213
- OCLC
- ocm44905108
- 44905108
- SCSB-1223800
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library