Product Description: The world's first mountain-top observatory and America's first big-science research center, Lick Observatory exemplifies astronomy's dramatic development in the past century. A dedicated Confederate naval officer and his jack-of-all-trades foreman used the bequest of a miserly California eccentric to transform an isolated mountain peak into the world's premier research observatory...read more

Product Description: This is the biography of James E. Keeler (1857-1900), a distinguished pioneer of astrophysics, the application of the methods of physics to understanding the nature of the stars, nebulae, planets, comets, and other objects that populate the universe...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Drawing on his experience as historian of astronomy, practicing astrophysicist, and director of Lick Observatory, Donald Osterbrock uncovers a chapter in the history of astronomy by providing the story of the Yerkes Observatory."An excellent description of the ups and downs of a major observatory...read more

Product Description: George Willis Ritchey was the builder of the first large, successful American reflecting telescopes and worked closely with George Ellery Hale, the phenomenal fund raiser and organizer of observatories; Mount Wilson Observatory stands today as a monument to their collaboration...read more

Product Description: What is the origin of the universe? How did life appear on Earth and why was much of that life destroyed at various times in Earth's history? In this book four noted scientists-physicist Alan H. Guth, astronomer George Wetherill, biologist Lynn Margulis, and paeleobiologist David Raup- propose answers to these questions, discussing the newest developments in some exciting areas of current research...read more

Gathers articles about William Herschel, Henry Norris Russell, globular clusters, molecular clouds, the coronas of galaxies, superluminous objects, supernovas and pulsars

Product Description: This graduate-level text/reference covers gaseous nebulae and the emission regions in Seyfert galaxies, quasars, and other types of active galactic nuclei. Written by a world-renowned expert in the field, this book is invaluable for graduate students and researchers in this important research area...read more