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Author:   Leon Golub ,  Jay M. Pasachoff
Publisher:   Harvard University Press
Imprint:   Harvard University Press
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.481kg
ISBN:  

9780674010062

ISBN 10:   067401006
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   30 November 2002
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface 1. Introduction 2. The Once and Future Son 3. What We See 4. What We Don't See 5. Eclipses 6. Space Missions 7. Between Fire and Ice 8. Space Weather Bibliography Glossary Acknowledgments Illustration Credits Index

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Golub and Pasachoff do not simply present an account of scientific fact. Rather, they show us how the process of science works... Nearest Star will surely leave you with a renewed appreciation for the beauty, complexity, and importance of our nearset star, the sun.--Jennifer Birriel Astronomy Magazine

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... Nearest Star invites readers into an open-ended narrative of discovery about what we know about the Sun and how we have learned it.

Author Information

Leon Golub is an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and is the head of one of the teams working with NASA's Transition Region and Coronal Explorer (TRACE) spacecraft. Jay M. Pasachoff is Field Memorial Professor of Astronomy at Williams College and, having viewed 31 solar eclipses, is Chair of the Working Group on Eclipses of the International Astronomical Union.

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