Bibliograph

Sun, earth, and sky, Kenneth R. Lang

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Sun, earth, and sky, Kenneth R. Lang

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-269) and indexes

Illustrations

mapsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Sun, earth, and sky

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

32050358

Responsibility statement

Kenneth R. Lang

Summary

This lavishly illustrated book introduces the sun, its physics, and its impact on life here on Earth. Using the most recent results based on radio telescope and satellite observations, the author describes the sun's awesome nuclear energy processes, its mysterious neutrino flux, its seismic activity, its magnetic fields and sunspots, its corona, solar flares and prominences, the solar wind, and the hugely important and multifaceted role of sunlight in both sustaining and endangering life on Planet Earth. Written in a light and friendly style, this is a delightful book for all who wish to understand the latest discoveries about the sun. It would make an ideal gift for all students of astronomy and related disciplines as well as for amateur astronomers.--Amazon.com adaptation of publisher description

Table Of Contents

Ch. 1. Good Day, Sunshine. 1.1. The Rising Sun. 1.2. Fire of Life. 1.3. Sunlight. 1.4. Daytime Star. 1.5. Cosmic Laboratory. 1.6. Ingredients of the Sun. 1.7. Children of the Stars. 1.8. Describing the Radiation. 1.9. Invisible Fires -- Ch. 2. Energizing the Sun. 2.1. Awesome Power, Enormous Times. 2.2. The Sun's Central Pressure Cooker. 2.3. Nuclear Fusion, Anti-Matter and Hydrogen Burning. 2.4. Diluting the Radiation -- Ch. 3. Ghostlike Neutrinos. 3.1. The Elusive Neutrino. 3.2. Neutrinos from the Sun. 3.3. Detecting Almost Nothing. 3.4. Solving the Solar Neutrino Problem -- Ch. 4. Taking the Pulse of the Sun. 4.1. Trapped Sounds. 4.2. Ode to the Sun. 4.3. Looking Inside the Sun. 4.4. Breaking the Symmetry. 4.5. Back to the Future -- Ch. 5. A Magnetic Star. 5.1. Islands of Intense Magnetism. 5.2. Bipolar Sunspots, Magnetic Loops and Active Regions. 5.3. Cycles of Magnetic Activity. 5.4. Internal Dynamo -- Ch. 6. An Unseen World of Perpetual Change. 6.1. The Sun's Visible Edge Is an IllusionGood day, sunshine -- Energizing the sun -- Ghostlike neutrinos -- Taking the pulse of the sun -- A magnetic star -- An unseen world of perpetual change -- The violent sun -- Energizing space -- Transforming the Earth's life-sustaining atmosphere -- Fire and ice

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