TY  - BOOK
AU  - Eddy,John A.
ED  - National Aeronautics and Space Administration (U.S.).
TI  - The Sun, the Earth, and Near-Earth Space: a guide to the sun-earth system
SN  - 9780160838071
AV  - QB539 .T4 .E349 2009
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
KW  - Solar-terrestrial physics
KW  - Solar activity
KW  - Climatic changes
KW  - Effect of solar activity on
KW  - Weather
KW  - Heliosphere (Astrophysics)
KW  - Sun
KW  - Outer space
KW  - Earth
N1  - Cover title; "830-I"; "NP-2009-1-066-GSFC"; This book was made possible by NASA Living With a Start grant number NNG06EC631; Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-293) and index
N2  - This colorful book provides concise explanations and descriptions-easily read and readily understood-of what is now known of the chain of events and processes that connect the Sun to the Earth, with special emphasis on space weather and sun-climate.

In a world of warmth and light and living things we soon forget that we are surrounded by a vast universe that is cold and dark and deadly dangerous, just beyond our door. On a starry night, when we look out into the darkness that lies around us, the view can be misleading in yet another way: for the brightness and sheer number of stars, and their chance groupings into familiar constellations, make them seem much nearer to each other, and to us, that in truth they are. And every one of them--each twinkling, like a diamond in the sky--is a white-hot sun, much like our own. The nearest stars in our own galaxy--the Milky Way-- are more than a million times further away from us than our star, the Sun. We could make a telephone call to the Moon and expect to wait but a few seconds between pieces of a conversation, or but a few hours in calling any planet in our solar system
ER  -