02129nam a22003498a 4500 CR9781139629003 UkCbUP 20171023125052.0 m|||||o||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 121130s2014||||enk s ||1 0|eng|d 9781139629003 (ebook) 9781107052659 (hardback) 9781107672642 (paperback) UkCbUP UkCbUP rda QB521 .G65 2014 523.7 23 Golub, Leon, author. Nearest Star : The Surprising Science of our Sun / [electronic resource] Leon Golub, Jay M. Pasachoff. 2nd ed. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014. 1 online resource (330 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). How did the Sun evolve, and what will it become? What is the origin of its light and heat? How does solar activity affect the atmospheric conditions that make life on Earth possible? These are the questions at the heart of solar physics, and at the core of this book. The Sun is the only star near enough to study in sufficient detail to provide rigorous tests of our theories and help us understand the more distant and exotic objects throughout the cosmos. Having observed the Sun using both ground-based and spaceborne instruments, the authors bring their extensive personal experience to this story revealing what we have discovered about phenomena from eclipses to neutrinos, space weather, and global warming. This second edition is updated throughout, and features results from the current spacecraft that are aloft, especially NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, for which one of the authors designed some of the telescopes. Sun Pasachoff, Jay M., author. Print version: 9781107052659 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139629003 Cambridge Books Online 229903 229903