The Sun (Hardcover)

~ (Author), Michael Carlowicz (Author)

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Product Description

Awe-inspiring and familiar, comforting yet sometimes frightening, the sun is the center around which all life revolves. Now, an expert on solar images teams up with a noted science writer to present a photographic book devoted entirely to the sun, illustrating the star we know and revealing recent discoveries.

Dramatic images from photographers, observatories, and satellites are organized as viewed first from the ground, then from earth's atmosphere and the edge of space, and finally from the surface of the sun itself. Through these images and a clear, precise text, the authors explore the intricate dance between the sun and earth, examining this relationship in both mythical and scientific terms. Perhaps best of all, the book's compact, square size makes The Sun as inviting to hold as it is to read.

About the Author

Photo researcher and sun-watcher Steele Hill has been a media specialist for the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) mission since 1996. He is probably more familiar with the images from SOHO and other recent solar missions than anyone else on the planet. Hill lives in Maryland.

A science writer and editor, as well as the author of Storms from the Sun, Michael Carlowicz has written dozens of articles on space and earth sciences, most recently for Oceanus magazine and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. He lives on Cape Cod.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 240 pages
• Publisher: "Harry N. Abrams, Inc." (May 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0810955229
• ISBN-13: 978-0810955226
• Product Dimensions: 6.2 x 6.1 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #529,722 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful images, July 24, 2006

By	Lyudmila Zinkova - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

That book is about the sun, but the sun is so much more than just the sun. The sun gives us amazing Northern Lights, sparkling solar coronas, mysterious green flashes, wonderful halos, pillars and so on, and so on. The book has inspiring pictures of all these phenomenas. One also will see the pictures of prominences and flares. I really recommend that awesome book.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You will be frightened, March 9, 2007

By	Jeff Smith (New York, New York) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Ever wonder about the big glowing thing above you that seems to be all over the place all the time during the day? Wonder no more. Holy @#%*!! Why isn't everyone flipping out at how amazing the sun is!? And that we have mind blowingly close, beautiful, evil, haunting pictures of it?! Seriously, there is this thing that's setting off its own arsenal of countless numbers of hydrogen bombs all at once and on itself, and we're constantly spinning around it, and there is a book that give you a beyond crazy close look at it. If this book had come out 100 years ago it would be hailed as the most amazing thing mankind had ever seen. Now it just sort of sits on a bookshelf in the astronomy section. Get with it people, and go stare at the sun.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome Pictures, July 6, 2006

By	Serendipity (VA) - See all my reviews

This little book has amazing pictures of the Sun. Great little conversation piece for the coffee table...especially if you've worked on some of the missions that took the pictures.