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Our Explosive Sun
Springer 2011; US$ 23.99The Sun, which is our own star at the center of the Solar System, gives rise to all life on Earth and is the driver of photosynthesis in plants and the source of all food and energy for living things. As seen with the naked eye, the Sun appears as a static and quiet yellow disk in the sky. However, it is a stormy and ever-changing star that contributes... more...
Fundamentals Of Solar Astronomy
World Scientific Publishing Company 2005; US$ 75.40There are several textbooks available on solar astronomy which deal with advanced astrophysical aspects of solar physics, and books which provide very elementary knowledge about the Sun. This book will help to bridge the gap. It aims to stimulate interest in solar astronomy, presenting at one place the basic methods and techniques used in the field,... more...
Blowing Bubbles in the Cosmos
Oxford University Press 2004; US$ 44.99Many astrophysical bodies produce winds, jets or explosions, which blow bubbles. From a nonmathematical perspective, based on the understanding of bubbles, this book addresses various topics in astrophysics including supernovae, the production of structure in the Early Universe, the environments of supermassive black holes and gamma-ray bursts. more...
Hutchinson Trends in Science - Astronomy
Helicon Publishing 2006; US$ 29.66Overview of the development of astronomy in the 20th century. more...
Basics of the Solar Wind
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 63.00Introduction to solar wind for researchers and graduate students in atmospheric physics and astrophysics. more...
Solar Journey
Springer 2006; US$ 199.99Lays the foundation for a study of the influence of interstellar material on the solar system and Earth as we travel through the Milky Way Galaxy. Topics include the interaction between the solar wind and interstellar dust and gas, cosmic ray modulation, magnetospheres, temporal variations in the solar environment, and more. more...
Physics of the Solar Corona
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 2006; US$ 84.99Based on spacecraft observations, this book provides an introduction to solar physics. It introduces the solar corona, which has a temperature of several million degrees, and sets it in the context of basic plasma physics. It also describes spectacular phenomena, such as solar flares and coronal mass ejections and their effects on the Earth. more...
Multi-Wavelength Observations of Coronal Structure and Dynamics
Elsevier Science 2002; US$ 270.00These are the Proceedings of the Yohkoh 10th Anniversary Meeting, a COSPAR Colloquium held in Kona, Hawaii, USA, on January 20-24, 2002. The title of the meeting was Multi-Wavelength Observations of Coronal Structure and Dynamics. In these proceedings the many and varied advances of the dynamics solar atmosphere in the past ten years of observations... more...









