Libro temática solar: Sun, earth and sky

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PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
ICARUS
CHAPTER 1 GOOD DAY, SUNSHINE
1.1 The Rising Sun
1.2 Fire of Life
1.3 Sunlight
1.4 Daytime Star
1.5 Cosmic Laboratory
1.6 Ingredients of the Sun
1.7 Children of the Cosmos
1.8 Describing the Radiation
1.9 Invisible Fires
CHAPTER 2 ENERGIZING THE SUN
2.1 Awesome Power, Enormous Times
2.2 The Sun's Central Pressure Cooker
2.3 Nuclear Fusion, Anti-Matter and Hydrogen Burning
2.4 Diluting the Radiation
2.5 Convection and Granulation
2.6 The Sun's Remote Past and Distant Future
CHAPTER 3 GHOSTLIKE NEUTRINOS
3.1 The Elusive Neutrino
3.2 Neutrinos from the Sun
3.3 Detecting Almost Nothing
3.4 Solving the Solar Neutrino Problem
CHAPTER 4 TAKING THE PULSE OF THE SUN
4.1 Trapped Sounds
4.2 Ode to the Sun
4.3 Looking Inside the Sun
4.4 Breaking the Symmetry
4.5 Internal Flows
CHAPTER 5 A MAGNETIC STAR
5.1 Magnetic Fields in the Visible Photosphere
5.2 The Solar Chromosphere and its Magnetism
5.3 Bipolar Sunspots, Magnetic Loops and Active Regions
5.4 Cycles of Magnetic Activity
5.5 Internal Dynamo
CHAPTER 6 AN UNSEEN WORLD OF PERPETUAL CHANGE
6.1 The Sun's Visible Edge Is an Illusion
6.2 The Million-Degree Corona
6.3 Corona! Heating
6.4 Closed Corona! Loops and Open Coronal Holes
6.5 The Eternal Solar Wind
6.6 Ulysses, SOHO and the Origin of the Sun's Winds
6.7 The Distant Frontier
CHAPTER 7 THE VIOLENT SUN
7.1 Energetic Solar Activity
7.2 Solar Flares
7.3 Flare Radiation from Energetic Accelerated Particles
7.4 Energizing Solar Flares
7.5 Erupting Prominences
7.6 Corona! Mass Ejections
7.7 Predicting Explosions on the Sun
CHAPTER 8 ENERGIZING SPACE
8.1 The Ingredients of Space
8.2 Earth's Magnetic Cocoon
8.3 Penetrating Earth's Magnetic Defense
8.4 Storing Invisible Particles Within Earth's Magnetosphere
8.5 Northern and Southern Lights
8.6 Geomagnetic Storms
8.7 Space Weather
CHAPTER 9 TRANSFORMING THE EARTH'S LIFE-SUSTAINING ATMOSPHERE
9.1 Fragile Planet Earth ? The View From Space
9.2 Clear Skies and Stormy Weather
9.3 The Life-Saving Greenhouse Effect
9.4 The Earth's Changing Atmosphere and Oceans
9.5 Our Sun-Layered Atmosphere
9.6 The Vanishing Ozone
9.7 The Inconstant Sun
9.8 The Heat is On
9.9 The Ice is Coming
QUOTATION REFERENCES
GLOSSARY
DIRECTORYOF WEB SITES
FURTHER READING
AUTHOR INDEX
SUBJECTINDEX

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