The Sun Today

• Main Author: Vita-Finzi, Claudio (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy-Observations.; Astrophysics.; Geophysics.; Climate change.; Atmospheric sciences.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.; Astrophysics and Astroparticles.; Geophysics/Geodesy.; Climate Change.; Atmospheric Sciences.

From the reviews of other books by Claudio Vita-Finzi: The Sun - A User's Manual (2008) ....this, jargon-free, concise, beautifully illustrated and eminently readable book... D.W. Hughes, Times Literary Supplement Solar History (2013) ....a book that is supremely informative, intensely stimulat...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• 1..A commonplace star
• 2..An inconstant star
• 3..Solar composition
• 4.The solar body
• 5. The solar furnace
• 6. Solar magnetism
• 7. Sun and weather
• Index. .