Nearest Star: the Surprising Science of Our Sun

Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001. Large octavo in black cloth; no jacket; 267 pages: illustrations (some color); 25 cm.; like new copy with no jacket; boards are clean and free of bumps; pags are clen, crisp, bright and free of marks and creases; binding is tight and square; a gently used copy. Fine copy. . Hardcover. ISBN: 0674004671

In English. Abstract: Two of the world's leading solar scientists show how astronomers study the Sun and what they have discovered about phenomena from eclipses to neutrinos, space weather, and global warming. Includes illustrations from the latest solar missions and the newest telescopes. 22 color illustrations. 67 halftones. Leon Golub & Jay M. Pasachoff, two of the world's leading solar scientists, invite readers into an open-ended narrative of discovery about what we know about the Sun & how we have learned it; Contents: Introduction; Once and future sun; What we see; What we don't see; Eclipses; Space missions; Between fire and ice; Space weather.