Friday, December 30, 2005

Happy New Year!

The IfA Library staff wishes everyone a happy and safe venture into 2006.

New Books in Manoa!

ASP Proceedings:

333. Tidal evolution and oscillations in binary stars : third Granada workshop on stellar structure
Claret, Antonio.
QB 821 .T52 2004

337. The Nature and evolution of disks around hot stars
Ignace, Richard.
QB 843 .E2 N38 2004


The Observation and analysis of stellar photospheres
Gray, David F.
QB 809 .G67 2005


IAU symposium 225
Impact of gravitational lensing on cosmology
REF IAU Symp. 225

Friday, December 16, 2005

New Books in Manoa!

IAU symposium 227
Massive star birth : a crossroads of astrophysics
REF IAU Symp. 227

Large Millimeter Telescope : neighbors explore the cosmos
QB 4 .L68 O98 2005

Physics and chemistry of the solar system.
Lewis, John S.
QB 501 .L497 2004

Optical remote sensing : science and technology.
Egan, Walter G.
QC 441 .E34 2004

Orion Nebula : where stars are born.
O'Dell, C. Robert
QB 855.9 .O75 O34 2003

Monday, December 12, 2005

New Books in Manoa!

Beyond Jupiter : the story of planetary astronomer Heidi Hammel.
Bortz, Alfred B.
QB 36 .H36 B67 2005


IAU Colloquium 198
Near-field cosmology with dwarf elliptical galaxies
QB 858 .J47 2005

Thursday, December 08, 2005

New Books in Manoa!

Can't you guys read? cartoons on academia.
Harris, Sidney.
NC 1429 .H33315 A4 1991a

A Gentle Rain of Starlight : the story of astronomy on mauna kea
West, Michael J.
REF QB 82 .M38 W47 2005

Mauna Kea : a guide to Hawaii's sacred mountain
Lang, Leslie
QB 82 .M38 L36 2005

Polarization in spectral lines.
Degl'Innocenti, Egidio Landi.
QC 441 .D29 2004

Tuesday, December 06, 2005

HOKU Newsletter

The latest edition of HOKU is now online, with a brand new look!

Monday, December 05, 2005

New Books in Manoa!

Astronomy hacks.
Thompson, Robert Bruce.
QB 64 .T46 2005

Dust in the galactic environment.
Whittet, D. C. B.
QB 791 .W45 2003

Dynamics of galaxies.
Dynamics of galaxies.
QB 857 .B47 2000

The initial mass function 50 years later.
Salpeter, Edwin E.
QB 814 .I55 2005

Probing galaxies through quasar absorption lines : proceedings of the 199th colloquium of the International Astronomical Union
QB 860 .P7 2005

The universal book of astronomy from the Andromeda Galaxy to the zone of avoidance.
Darling, David J.
QB 14 .D37 2004

Friday, December 02, 2005

Nature Podcast

Toby Owen discussed results on the atmosphere of Titan obtained from the Cassini Huygens probe in the 1st December Nature podcast.

If you have iTunes you can go to the Advanced menu, click on Subscribe to Podcast, and paste in this URL: http://www.nature.com/nature/podcast/rss/nature.xml

Nature Podcast will appear under the Podcast menu in iTunes; click the Update button to download the current Podcast.

Alternatively, you can go directly to the Nature Podcast page and listen to any of the recent podcasts using Quicktime.

Toby's segment is the second and is followed by a segment discussing results obtained on Titan's surface.