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Communicating the science of the 11-year sunspot cycle to the general public

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2015

A. R. Choudhuri
A. R. Choudhuri*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore - 560012, India email: arnab@physics.iisc.ernet.in
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Astrophysics is one branch of science which excites the imagination of the general public. Pioneer science popularizers like George Gamow and Fred Hoyle wrote on different aspects of astrophysics. However, of late, we see a trend which I find disturbing. While it has become extremely fashionable to write popular science books on cosmology, other areas of astrophysics are grossly neglected.

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Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 10 , Highlights H16: Highlights of Astronomy , August 2012 , pp. 638
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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2015 

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