Galaxies & stars books

From 12 April to 14 April 1988, 120 of Gerard and Antoinette de Vaucouleurs's friends and colleagues gathered at...  Read More >>

The International Astronomical Union has encouraged the study of our galaxy through a series of symposia. In preparing...  Read More >>

Proceedings of a Meeting Organized in the Context of XVIII IAU General Assembly, held in Patras, Greece, August...  Read More >>

A handy and comprehensive reference to the most interesting celestial objects. It takes readers on a photographic...  Read More >>

"""Special Courses ('Ciclo de Cursos Especiais', CCE, in Portuguese) ... XVth Special Courses (XV CCE)""--P. 1."...  Read More >>

Based on a number of new discoveries resulting from 10 years of Chandra and XMM-Newton observations and corresponding...  Read More >>

The symposium ""Star Clusters in the Era of Large Surveys"" was held in Lisbon on Sep 9-10 during the JENAM 2010....  Read More >>

The program of the conference included the results and techniques of Supernova surveys, photometric and spectral...  Read More >>

The purpose of the conference, of which this volume contains the proceedings, was to bring together the leaders...  Read More >>

Proceedings of IAU Symposium 42, held at St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland, August 11-13, 1970  Read More >>

The Milky Way Galaxy offers a unique opportunity to study the structure and contents of a major stellar system in...  Read More >>

The interstellar medium (or ISM) is the matter that exists in the space between the star systems in a galaxy. This...  Read More >>

A collection of articles from the author's 'Deep-Sky Wonders' column in Sky & Telescope magazine.  Read More >>

"This only up-to-date reference on stellar populations and development models includes coverage of distant galaxies,...  Read More >>

Magnetic Fields play a key role in the physics of star formation on all scales: from the formation of the large...  Read More >>

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This book summarizes the gathering of information on and the growing understanding of M33 from the 1920s, when Hubble...  Read More >>

Providing a mosaic of the entire sky, this unique atlas is unparalleled in detail and completeness, making it indispensable...  Read More >>

Offers a brief overview of different topics related with fundamental parameters, dynamics and large astronomical...  Read More >>

In particular this research concentrates on a recently identified group of neutron stars, known as RRATs, which...  Read More >>

The book presents a comparison of the various scenarios for star formation, discusses the basic physics underlying...  Read More >>

The publication of the morphology - density relation by Alan Dressler in 1980 brought into the limelight the role...  Read More >>

This volume of lecture notes brings together the knowledge on pulsations of the Sun and the stars, with a particular...  Read More >>

A major achievement of nineteenth-century astronomy, Admiral William Henry Smyth's Sidereal Chromatics (1864) presented...  Read More >>

A fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and a pioneer in modern astronomy, Isaac Roberts made significant advances...  Read More >>