Sun, Earth and Sky

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lang, Kenneth R. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2006.
• Edition: Second Edition.
• Subjects: Physics.; Geophysics.; Astronomy.; Astrophysics.; Cosmology.; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; Geophysics/Geodesy.

This Second Edition of Sun, Earth and Sky updates the popular text by providing comprehensive accounts of the most recent discoveries made by five modern solar spacecraft during the past decade. Their instruments have used sound waves to peer deep into the Sun’s inner regions and measure the tempera...

Table of Contents:

• Good 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.