The Sky at Night

Description

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 space research. This is the 13th volume, not only a record of the programmes but also of the great advances and discoveries during the period covered - eclipses, comets, and the strange chemical lakes of Titan, for instance, but also anniversaries such as the fifteenth “birthday” of the Hubble Space Telescope, and not forgetting the programme celebrating the Sky at Night’s 50th year, attended by astronaut Piers Sellars and many others who appeared on the programme over the years. All the chapters are self-contained, and fully illustrated. In this new Sky at Night book you will find much to entertain you. It will appeal to amateurs and professionals alike. Front Matter....Pages i-xv Eye on the Universe....Pages 1-3 The Turbulent Sun....Pages 5-8 Comet Crash....Pages 9-11 The Search for Life Elsewhere....Pages 13-16 Mapping the Sky....Pages 17-18 News from the Planets....Pages 19-23 Spanish Ring....Pages 25-27 The Sizes of the Stars....Pages 29-32 The Edge of the Solar System....Pages 33-35 The Telescopes of Mauna Kea....Pages 37-40 Turkish Delight....Pages 41-43 Ringed World....Pages 45-48 Matter We Cannot See....Pages 49-51 Gamma-Ray Bursters....Pages 53-55 Wandering Giants....Pages 57-59 The Problem of Pluto....Pages 61-63 Non-identical Twins....Pages 65-67 The Sounds of the Stars....Pages 69-71 Space-Man....Pages 73-75 Exploring Mars....Pages 77-79 The Lakes of Titan....Pages 81-86 Fiftieth Anniversary....Pages 87-89 SuperWASP....Pages 91-93 Scorpion in the Sky....Pages 95-98 The August Perseids....Pages 99-102 Black Holes: And Black Magic....Pages 103-105 Jodrell Bank: Fiftieth Anniversary....Pages 107-108 The Grand Collision....Pages 109-112 Holmes’ Comet....Pages 113-115 Cosmic Debris....Pages 117-119 Nearest Star....Pages 121-123 The Flight of the Phoenix....Pages 125-128 Devil’s Advocate....Pages 129-131 Galaxy Zoo....Pages 133-135 Four Hundred Years of the Telescope....Pages 137-140 The Merry Dancers....Pages 141-143 The Fountains of Enceladus....Pages 145-147 The Herschel Telescope....Pages 149-151 Onward to the Moon....Pages 153-157 Forty Years on....Pages 159-160 Impact!....Pages 161-162 Life?....Pages 163-165 Erratum....Pages E1-E1 Back Matter....Pages 167-169