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The sun has been an object of fascination and scientific interest to humans since the time of the ancient Greeks. With minimum technical language, this book gives an account of what we now know about the sun's interior, its surface and atmosphere, its role in our solar system, and its relation to other stars. The ways that solar power is being converted to useful forms of energy are also explained. The book is aimed at anyone interested in learning about the latest developments in solar studies, from those at high-school level to the nonspecialist professional.
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Professor Kenneth Phillips is Visiting Professor, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London, and specialises in solar physics and X-ray and ultraviolet spectroscopy. He is co-author of Ultraviolet and X-ray Spectroscopy of the Solar Atmosphere and has authored over 300 research papers. In 2009, he was awarded the Gold Medal of the University of Wroclaw, Poland, for collaborative projects with the solar group there, and from 2002 to 2005, held a National Research Council Senior Research Associateship at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. He worked for 25 years in the Space Science Department, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire and is also Honorary Professor at Queen's University, Belfast.
Table of Contents
1. History of solar observation: from sun worship to the space age; 2. Solar interior; 3. The solar photosphere; 4. The solar chromosphere; 5. The solar corona; 6. The active Sun; 7. The Sun and the solar system; 8. The Sun and other stars; 9. Solar energy; 10. Observing the Sun; Epilogue; Glossary; Appendices: physical and astronomical constants finding the heliographic co-ordinates of a sunspot; Bibliography.