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020			_a9781139629003 (ebook)
020			_z9781107052659 (hardback)
020			_z9781107672642 (paperback)
040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP _dBD-SySUS.
050	0	0	_aQB521 _b.G65 2014
082	0	0	_a523.7 _223
100	1		_aGolub, Leon, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aNearest Star : _bThe Surprising Science of our Sun / _cLeon Golub, Jay M. Pasachoff.
250			_a2nd ed.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2014.
300			_a1 online resource (330 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520			_aHow 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.
650		0	_aSun
700	1		_aPasachoff, Jay M., _eauthor.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781107052659
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139629003
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c36980 _d36980