First results from Hinode; proceedings.9781583816646 First results from Hinode; proceedings. Workshop on First Results From Hinode (2007: Dublin, Ireland) Ed. by Sarah A. Matthews et al. Astronomical Soc./Pacific 2008 200 pages $77.00 Hardcover Astronomical Society of the Pacific The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) was founded in San Francisco in 1889. It has the legal status of a nonprofit organization. It is the largest general astronomy society in the world, with members from over 70 countries. Conference series; v.397 QB501 Launched in 2006 from Japan as Solar B to advance understanding of solar physics, Hinode ("sunrise") became the space mission's formal name after its first successful orbit. In introducing 54 papers that presented a sample of its first results and related theoretical models at the 2007 ASP conference, Matthews (UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory The Mullard Space Science Laboratory (MSSL) is the United Kingdom's largest university space research group. MSSL is the Department of Space and Climate Physics of the University College London. UCL was one of the first universities in the world to conduct space research. , Surrey, UK) and coauthors from NASA and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) is an astronomical research organisation comprising several facilities in Japan, as well as an observatory in Hawaii. It was established in 1988 as an amalgamation of three existing research organizations - the Tokyo Observatory of explain Hinode's mission to provide information on how solar magnetic fields are formed, evolve, and interact with plasmas to create the photospheric pho·to·sphere n. The visible outer layer of a star, especially of the sun. pho  to·spher and
chromospheric chro·mo·sphere n. 1. An incandescent, transparent layer of gas, primarily hydrogen, several thousand miles in depth, lying above and surrounding the photosphere of a star, such as the sun, but distinctly separate from the corona. 2. phenomena observed. A minor quibble: the views obtained from space are undoubtedly of better resolution than the group photo of participants. Not indexed. ([c]20082005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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