Galaxies & stars books

This volume covers all aspects of cosmology and extragalactic astronomy at an advanced level. Topics are developed...  Read More >>

Now containing material on abundances from stellar populations, nebular analysis, and meteoric isotopic anomalies,...  Read More >>

This extensively illustrated book has been up-dated and thoroughly revised to include the most recent observational...  Read More >>

This second volume of a comprehensive three-volume course on theoretical astrophysics deals with stellar physics....  Read More >>

Guiding the reader through all the stages that lead to the formation of a star such as our Sun, this advanced textbook...  Read More >>

Messier's M31, the Andromeda Galaxy, is the only extragalactic object visible to the naked eye, and retains an almost...  Read More >>

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Presents a success story of modern astrophysics - how the application of known physics to models of stars can, together...  Read More >>

John Flamsteed (1646–1719), the first Astronomer Royal, complied a 'Catalogue of British Stars' but quarrelled with...  Read More >>

Eta Carinae is now acknowledged as the most massive, most luminous star in our region of the Galaxy, and it may...  Read More >>

Planetary Nebulae and How to Observe Them is for amateur astronomers who want to go beyond the Messier objects,...  Read More >>

Exciting results are blooming, thanks to a convergence between unprecedented asteroseismic data obtained by the...  Read More >>

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In the 42 years that Edward Pickering directed the Harvard College Observatory, he and his team of women ocomputerso...  Read More >>

The last major conference on infrared astronomy was the IAU Symposium No.  Read More >>

Extensively revised throughout, the fourth edition of this authoritative text provides a thorough introduction to...  Read More >>

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The term “chemical evolution of galaxies” refers to the evolution of abundances of chemical species in galaxies,...  Read More >>

It was a general feeling among those who attended the NATO / ARW meeting on the Galaxy Distances and Deviations...  Read More >>

We thank all the authors of the papers in this volume for the trouble they took in preparing written versions of...  Read More >>

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In the early evolution, so called ""E-AGB""-phase, the stars are a bit bluer than, but otherwise very similar to,...  Read More >>

The 4th European Regional Meeting in Astronomy, entitled ""Stars and Star Systems"", was held in Uppsala, Sweden,...  Read More >>

A collection of contributions from the 'International School of Physics' Enrico Fermi , held in Varenna, Italy...  Read More >>

Recent advances in the instrumentation used to observe star forming regions in both our own Milky Way and in external...  Read More >>