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NASA's Cosmos
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| New discoveries from NASA's investigations of the Cosmos will be shared with
the general public, space scientists, students and teachers through the
writing and publication of two new books, entitled "The Sun From Space, Second
Edition"; and "Astrophysical Formulae, Fourth Edition: An On Line Reference",
building upon a proven track record with NASA and AISRP. This work will
bring scientific credibility, human interest, and visual excitement to NASA
accomplishments. In a logical extension of proven abilities, the Principal
Investigator will use the past ten years of NASA Space Science results to
update, extend and stengthen two books, including one of them in on line,
electronic form. "The Sun From Space, Second Edition" will demonstrate how
recent Solar Spacecraft have helped solve fundamental solar problems such as
the heating of solar corona, the origin of the Sun's winds, the nature of
solar flares
and coronal mass ejections, and the Space Weather interactions of the Sun
with either the Earth or with unprotected astronauts and spacecraft in
outer space or on the Moon or Mars.
"Astrophysical Formulae, Fourth Edition: An On Line Reference" wiil be
published in an updated electronic version, with its own search engine.
It will demonstrate how NASA spacecraft have contributed to studies of
black holes, cosmic evolution, the expanding Universe, dark energy, dark
matter, gamma ray bursts, planets around other stars, pulsars, quasars, and
the three-degree cosmic microwave background. Springer Verlag has agreed to
publish both books in late 2008, or early 2009, providing sufficient time to
assimilate new findings from recently launched spacecraft. |
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