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Scientific objectives of the Hot Universe Baryon Surveyor (HUBS) mission
The Hot Universe Baryon Surveyor (HUBS) is a proposed space-based X-ray telescope for detecting X-ray emissions from the hot gas content in our...
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13 Microbiology of Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents: Lessons for Mars Exploration
A large proportion of the Earth (70 %) is covered by seas and oceans. Oceanic waters below one kilometre depth constitute the deep-sea, which...
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The Sun
Our Sun is the only star whose surface we can study in detail due to its proximity. Through space missions are also in situ measurements possible.
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Feebly-interacting particles: FIPs 2022 Workshop Report
Particle physics today faces the challenge of explaining the mystery of dark matter, the origin of matter over anti-matter in the Universe, the...
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From Vision to Photography
Among the most important senses that humans use to experience the material world is vision. Vision gives rise to visual perception that is considered...
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Laser Spectroscopy
TheSpectroscopylaser wide applicability of lasers in spectroscopy is due to several factors. As we have seen, very high intensities can be obtained...
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Turbulenz- und Chaostheorien
Auch wenn Menschen mit Chaos- und Turbulenz-Phänomenen meist eher Ungutes verbinden, so ermöglichen die im Zusammenhang mit diesen beiden Begriffen...
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Higgs mass from neutrino-messenger mixing
The discovery of the Higgs particle at 125 GeV has put strong constraints on minimal messenger models of gauge mediation, pushing the stop masses...
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A Modern Commentary on W. F. Denning’s Telescopic Work for Starlight Evenings (1891)
An Essay Dedicated to David Gray.
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QCD and strongly coupled gauge theories: challenges and perspectives
We highlight the progress, current status, and open challenges of QCD-driven physics, in theory and in experiment. We discuss how the strong...
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The Extended Solar Atmosphere
This chapter discusses the Sun’s outer atmosphere, the million-degree corona, which expands away from the Sun in fast, uniform winds and slow, gusty...
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Størmer’s Auroral Studies
Utterly fascinating lights appear in and vanish from the polar skies with ever-changing forms that defy categorization. Across recorded history these...
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Life in the Saturnian Neighborhood
The Cassini–Huygens mission has revealed a very active and diverse Saturnian system in which several satellites show promising conditions for...
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History
Claudius Ptolemaeus who lived in the second century (83–161 AD) was an ancient mathematician, geographer, astronomer, and astrologer in Roman Egypt....
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Catalogue of Minor Planet Names and Discovery Circumstances
Discovered 1801 Jan. 1 by G. Piazzi at Palermo. (* MC 3, 604) Named after the Roman goddess of corn and harvests, daughter of Rhea {see planet (577)}...
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Stars and Stellar Systems
Notes on stellar colors spectral types, and physical quantities of stars are followed by cataloging of variable stars and their classification. The...
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Chronology
This table covers all kinds of high-rate phenomena, such as percussion, blast, shock waves, explosions, implosions and impact as well as milestones...
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General Survey
Percussion, concussion, collision, impact, explosion, implosion, detonation and shock waves are rapid mechanical phenomena that are related to each...
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Uranus: The toppled giant
For more than 5,000 years it was generally accepted that there were just five planets (in addition to the Earth) circling the Sun. There had been...
