The Sun from Space

• Main Author: Lang, Kenneth R. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Series: Astronomy and Astrophysics Library,
• Subjects: Physics.; Physical geography.; Astronomy.; Astrophysics.; Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences.; Geophysics/Geodesy.; Popular Science in Astronomy.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76953-8

This volume is a comprehensive, up-to-date account of solar astrophysics and how our perception and knowledge of this star have evolved as mankind has elucidated ever more of its mysteries. The emphasis of this second edition of The Sun from Space is on the last decade, which includes the findings o...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Instruments for a revolution
• 2. Discovering space
• 3. Exploring unseen depths of the sun
• 4. Solving the suns heating crisis
• 5. Winds across the void
• 6. Our violent sun
• 7. Space weather.