Bücher von Claudio Vita-Finzi

There are several billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy. One of them is the middle-aged G2V yellow dwarf that rules our lives. The Sun Today discusses the Sun's appearance and composition, its internal workings, and the various kinds of radiation it emits, and it puts forward a novel explanation for coronal heating. The book draws on the findings of telescopic observation, space missions, and technical and theoretical advances in many fields, and shows why we need to know more if we are to understand and manage our foothold in the Universe.From the reviews of other books by Claudio Vita-Finzi:The Sun - A User's Manual (2008)....this, jargon-free, concise, beautifully illustrated and eminently readable book... D.W. Hughes, Times Literary SupplementSolar History (2013)....a book that is supremely informative, intensely stimulating and enjoyable to read... Ian Seymour, Astronomy NowA History of the Solar System (2016)...there is a huge amount of useful information in this book that would benefit anyone who needed more detail than is available in a typical popular science title. Brian Clegg, Popular Science

This well illustrated book presents a compact history of the Solar System from its dusty origins 4,600,000 years ago to the present day.

Beyond the four centuries of sunspot observation, our knowledge of solar history depends on analogy with main sequence stars, on modelling, and on indirect measures of solar activity. This title includes the analysis of lunar rocks and meteorites for evidence of solar flares and other components of the solar cosmic-ray flux, and more.