Travel to space and back with astronaut Chris Hadfield's "enthralling" bestseller as your eye-opening guide (Slate). Colonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged nearly 4000 hours in space. During this time he has broken into a Space Station with a Swiss army knife, disposed of a live snake while piloting a plane, and been temporarily blinded while clingi…
We tend to think of the Sun as an image of its disk. Recent years have broughtincreasingly sophisticated images of that disk in the light of single spectral lines andimages of active emissions from its surface and its corona with higher and higherspatial resolution. However, we have no such images of solar energetic particles(SEPs). In a photon-dominated discipline, SEPs are stealthy and obscur…