You too can follow in the steps of the great astronomers such as Hipparchus Galileo Kepler & Hubble who all contributed so much to our modern understanding of the cosmos This book gives the student oramateur astronomer the following tools to replicate some of these seminal observations from their own homes With your own eyes Use your own observations & measurements to discover & confirm the phenomena of the seasons the analemma & the equation of time the logic behind celestial coordinates & even the precession of the equinoxes With a consumer-grade digital camera Record the changing brightness of an eclipsing binary star & show that a pulsating star changes color as it brightens & dims Add an inexpensive diffraction grating to your camera & see the variety of spectral features in the stars & demonstrate that the Sun's spectrum is similar to one particular type of stellar spectrum With a backyard telescope Add a CCD imager & you can measure the scale of the Solar System & the distance to a nearby star You could even measure the distance to another galaxy & observe the cosmological redshift of the expanding universe Astronomical Discoveries You Can Make Too! doesn't just tell you about the development of astronomy; it shows you how to discover for yourself the essential features of the universe ...

Fluxx is a card game in which the cards themselves determine the current rules of the game By playing cards you change numerous aspects of the game how to draw cards how to play cards & even how to win At the start of the game each player holds three cards & on a turn a player draws one card then plays one card By playing cards you can put new rules into play that change numerous aspects of the game how many cards to draw or play how many cards you can hold in hand or keep on the table in front of you & (most importantly) how to win the game Astronomy Fluxx takes you to outer space featuring stunning NASA photographs of planets & other astronomical objects Learn about space & humankind's space flight history in this latest installment in the educational Fluxx series Players 2-6 Playing time 5-30 mins Ages 8 ...

All the winning & shortlisted images from the 2016 Insight Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition which is hosted by the Royal Observatory Greenwich Foreword by German fine-art photographer Wolfgang Tillmans The images are submitted in one of the following categories Earth & Space Our Solar System Deep Space Young Astronomy Photographer of the Year And can also be entered for one of the special prizes Best Newcomer People & Space Robotic Scope Each image is accompanied by caption photographer location & technical details Exhibition Every year the Royal Observatory Greenwich hosts a free exhibition of the winners of the Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition showcasing some incredible images of the sky wwwrmgcoukastrophoto ...

All the winning & shortlisted images from the 2017 Insight Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition hosted by the Royal Observatory Greenwich The images are submitted in one of the following categories Image Categories Earth & Space O Iur Solar System Deep Space Young Astronomy Photographer of the Year Special Prize Categories Best Newcomer People & Space Robotic Scope Each image is accompanied by caption photographer location & technical details Exhibition Every year the Royal Observatory Greenwich hosts a free exhibition of the winners of the Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition showcasing some incredible images of the skywwwrmgcoukastrophoto ...

Astrophysics is the physics of the stars & more widely the physics of the Universe It enables us to understand the structure & evolution of planetary systems stars galaxies interstellar gas & the cosmos as a whole In this Very Short Introduction the leading astrophysicist James Binney shows how the field of astrophysics has expanded rapidly in the past century with vast quantities of data gathered by telescopes exploiting all parts of the electromagnetic spectrum combined with the rapid advance of computing power which has allowed increasingly effective mathematical modelling He illustrates how the application of fundamental principles of physics
- the consideration of energy & mass & momentum
- & the two pillars of relativity & quantum mechanics has provided insights into phenomena ranging from rapidly spinning millisecond pulsars to the collision of giant spiral galaxies This is a clear rigorous introduction to astrophysics for those keen to cut their teeth on a conceptual treatment involving some mathematics ABOUT THE SERIES The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly Our expert authors combine facts analysis perspective new ideas & enthusiasm to make interesting & challenging topics highly readable

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IN SPACE! The 17th title in the brilliantly funny & exciting ASTROSAURS series Meet Captain Teggs Stegosaur & the crew of the amazing spaceship DSS Sauropod as the Astrosaurs fight evil across the galaxy! Killer carnivores have discovered a strange liquid with the power to turn back time 144 pages black & white Cole Steve ...

Another hilarious action-packed adventure from the Astro-nomically popular Steve Cole Meet Captain Teggs Stegosaur & the crew of the amazing spaceship DSS Sauropod as the ASTROSAURS fight evil across the galaxy! But the planet is not what it seems & some nasty egg-eating oviraptors are hot on their tail 144 pages black & white Cole Steve ...

Another action-packed adventure from the astro-nomically popular Steve Cole Meet Captain Teggs Stegosaur & the crew of the amazing spaceship DSS Sauropod as the ASTROSAURS fight evil across the galaxy! Some cunning carnivore crooks have the power to swap places with other dinosaurs
- & Teggs & Iggy become their first victims! Trapped in the wrong bodies & lost in space can the two astrosaurs survive to put things right?
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Young Teggs Stegosaur is a pupil at Astrosaurs Academy
- where dinosaurs train to be Astrosaurs The biggest volcano on Astro Prime
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dinosaurs with twitching claws razor-sharp teeth anddeadly udders?! These aren't mutants
- they're MOO-tants! This is a deadly
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