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The Multinational History of Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory
Springer 2006; US$ 139.99Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory is quite an interesting place for historians: several changes of nationality between France and Germany, high-profile scientists having been based there, and so on. This volume offers historical facts and references on the first decades of the Observatory history. more...
A Visitor's Guide to the Kitt Peak Observatories
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 22.00A guide to the Kitt Peak telescopes. more...
Short-period Binary Stars
Springer 2008; US$ 139.99Short-period binaries run the gamut from widely separated stars to black-hole pairs; in between are systems that include neutron stars and white dwarfs, and partially evolved systems such as tidally distorted and over-contact systems. These objects represent stages of evolution of binary stars, and their degrees of separation provide critical clues... more...
Multiple Stars Across the H-R Diagram
Springer 2007; US$ 84.99The ESO workshop "Multiple Stars across the H-R Diagram" was held in Garching on July 12-15, 2005. The topics included observations of multiple stars from ground and space, dynamical and stellar evolution in multiple systems, effects of the environment on multiplicity, formation and early evolution of multiple stars, and special components... more...
New Worlds in the Cosmos
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 52.00Account of the successful search for planets outside our Solar System. more...
Exoplanets
Springer 2011; US$ 23.99"Exoplanets: Finding, Exploring, and Understanding Alien Worlds" probes the basis for possible answers to the fundamentals questions asked about these planets orbiting stars other than our Sun. This book examines what such planets might be like, where they are, and how we find them. Until around ten years ago, the only planets that we knew... more...
The Earth as a Distant Planet
Springer 2010; US$ 109.99In The Earth as a Distant Planet, the authors become external observers of our solar system from a distance and try to determine how one can understand how Earth, the third in distance to the central star, is essentially unique and capable of sustaining life. The knowledge gained from this original perspective is then applied to the search for other... more...
Europe to the Stars
Wiley 2013; US$ 49.95The creation of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in 1962 was the culmination of the dream of leading astronomers from five European countries. Over the years, as more member states joined, ESO constructed the La Silla and Paranal observatories, as well as the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) together with partners. ESO is... more...
The Jewel on the Mountaintop
Wiley 2013; US$ 75.00Authored by ESO senior advisor Claus Madsen, the present book comprises 576 action-packed pages of ESO history and dramatic stories about the people behind the organisation. This is the ultimate historical account about ESO and its telescopes in the southern hemisphere, but also about a truly remarkable European success story in research. Spanning... more...
Zdenek Kopal's Binary Star Legacy
Springer 2005; US$ 179.99An international conference entitled "Zdenek Kopal's Binary Star Legacy" was held on the occasion of the late Professor Kopal's 90th birthday in his home town of Litomy?l/Czech Republic and dedicated to the memory of one of the leading astronomers of the 20th century. Professor Kopal, who devoted 60 years of his scientific life to the exploration of... more...









