The Sky at Night

• Main Author: Moore, Patrick. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2010.
• Subjects: Physics.; Astronomy.; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.; Popular Science in Astronomy.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6409-0

For more than 50 years now Sir Patrick Moore has presented the BBC Television series Sky at Night; not a month has been missed  a record for any television series, and a record which may never be broken. Every three years or so a book is published covering the main events in both astronomy and spac...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword
• Introduction
• Acknowledgments
• Eye on the Sky
• The Turbulent Sun
• Comet Crash
• The Search for Life Elsewhere
• Mapping the Sky
• News from the Planets
• Spanish Ring
• The Sizes of the Stars
• The Edge of the Solar System
• The Telescopes of Mauna Kea
• Turkish Delight
• Ringed World
• Matter We Cannot See
• Gamma Ray Bursters
• Wandering Giants
• The Problem with Pluto
• Non-Identical Twins
• The Sounds of the Stars
• Space-Man
• Exploring Mars
• The Lakes of Titan
• The Lakes of Titan Continued
• Fiftieth Anniversary
• SuperWASP
• Scorpion in the Sky
• The August Perseids
• Black Holes and Black Magic
• Jodrell Bank-50th Anniversary
• The Grand Collision
• Holme's Comet
• Cosmic Debris
• Nearest Star
• The Flight of the Phoenix
• Devil's Advocate
• Galaxy Zoo
• Four Hundred Years of the Telescope
• The Merry Dancers
• The Fountains of Enceladus
• The Herschel Telescope
• Onward to the Moon
• Forty Years On
• Impact!
• Life?
• Index.