Dr. Louis Komzsik is an engineer and mathematician, a graduate of the Technical University and the Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences, both in Budapest Hungary. He immigrated to the US in 1981 and since then worked as engineer in the industry and taught mathematics at several California universities. He is the author of a handful of internationally known mathematical and engineering textbooks. In this easily readable volume, he wrote about the...

The James Webb Space Telescope or JWST was launched on Christmas in 2021 to provide the most sensitive telescopic views of the Universe.It has already revolutionized our real world views of the early Universe and these observations question our current theories of the creation of the Universe.This book gets into the history of the JWST, the instruments it carries, new observations, and ideas of what these anomalies mean. We review some of the most...

On July 23, 1999, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, the most powerful X-ray telescope ever built, was launched aboard the space shuttle Columbia. Since then, Chandra has given us a view of the universe that is largely hidden from telescopes sensitive only to visible light. In Chandra's Cosmos, the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's Chandra science spokesperson Wallace H. Tucker uses a series of short, connected stories to describe the telescope's...

Read how the author exposes the blunders of some of the greatest minds of the 20th century.Learn how the Universe really works.Is this author the greatest mind of the 21st century? Read the book to find out why.

El 11 de febrero de 2016, el anuncio de un descubrimiento sacudió el mundo y fue tapa de los principales diarios: por primera vez se habían detectado ondas gravitacionales. ¡Sí! Esas que un siglo antes había predicho Albert Einstein en su teoría de la relatividad. La física argentina Gabriela González era entonces la líder y vocera de la colaboración científica LIGO, y las autoras y los autores de este libro fueron parte de ese descubrimiento...

Sara Seager is professor of planetary science and physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Over the past twenty years, astronomers have identified hundreds of extrasolar planets--planets orbiting stars other than the sun. Recent research in this burgeoning field has made it possible to observe and measure the atmospheres of these exoplanets. This is the first textbook to describe the basic physical processes--including radiative transfer,...

Have you ever looked up on a dark night and wondered what the deal was with all those stars? Have you ever been around your coworkers or friends who were talking about the planets or stars above and you simply had no understanding about what they were saying? Well, this book was, written for you. Two regular guys, who are NOT astrophysicists, have described for you the entire Universe in plain and simple language anyone can understand. It's a short...

Welcome to Physics Nerd!In this exciting book, you will:Discover the building blocks of matter and the quantum weirdness that defies common sense.Understand the invisible forces that hold the universe together, from the gravity that grounds us to the electromagnetism that lights up our world.Step into the realm of spacetime, where black holes devour stars and time itself can slow down.Explore the laws that govern energy and matter, and marvel at exotic...

As our closest stellar companion and composed of two Sun-like stars and a third small dwarf star, Alpha Centauri is an ideal testing ground of astrophysical models and has played a central role in the history and development of modern astronomy-from the first guesses at stellar distances to understanding how our own star, the Sun, might have evolved. It is also the host of the nearest known exoplanet, an ultra-hot, Earth-like planet recently discovered. Just...

Para Françoise Hardy existen dos tipos de astrología. La más difundida procede de una charlatanería, a menudo endeble, que abandona los cimientos científicos de la astrología para limitarse a jugar con símbolos abstractos y admitir la creencia en un fatalismo absoluto; carente de cualquier relación seria con la astronomía, es capaz de poner las palabras más absurdas en boca del cielo astral. Por el contrario, la otra astrología, denominada...