Galaxies & stars books

The book begins with a historical introduction, ""Star Formation: The Early History"", that presents new material...  Read More >>

Dark matter research is one of the most fascinating and active fields among current high-profile scientific endeavours....  Read More >>

Three eminent scientists, each well known for the clarity of their writing, present for students and researchers...  Read More >>

Star clusters are at the heart of astronomy, being key objects for our understanding of stellar evolution and galactic...  Read More >>

This text provides a complete survey of the astrophysics of planetary nebulae, including theory and observations....  Read More >>

The ""standard candles"", used to set up the extragalactic distance scale, reviewed in this book include cepheid...  Read More >>

Born during the gravitational collapse of luminous stars - a birth heralded by spectacular supernova explosions...  Read More >>

This volume contains the written versions of the lectures given at the 26th course of the renowned Saas-Fee series....  Read More >>

Digital sky surveys, high-precision astrometry from satellite data, deep-space data from orbiting telescopes, and...  Read More >>

Unique in its breadth of coverage and level of presentation, this revised textbook provides more on the nature of...  Read More >>

The topics included observations of multiple stars from ground and space, dynamical and stellar evolution in multiple...  Read More >>

This book contains an up-to-date review of the structure and evolution of disk galaxies from both the observational...  Read More >>

The study of the physical processes at work in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) has kept a large number of astronomers...  Read More >>

Various kinds of masks obscure our view of our galaxy, the Milky Way, as well as of other galaxies. This volume...  Read More >>

In the last decade extra-galactic planetary nebulae (PNe) have gained increasing importance. They are found in galaxies...  Read More >>

For every galaxy in the field or in clusters, there are about three galaxies in groups. The current generation of...  Read More >>

This book discusses the beginnings of the process of galaxy formation from cosmological observations and calculations....  Read More >>

This work is intended to give a comprehensive overview of the current state of knowledge in solar and stellar modelling....  Read More >>

Mason Space Sci Rev (2007) 130: 3–4 DOI 10.1007/s11214-007-9240-0 Acknowledgement Published online: 21 July 2007...  Read More >>

I have spent many wonderful nights observing at a variety of places around the world, but many of my fondest memories...  Read More >>

Oftentimes, however, the supermassive black holes that lie at the centers of AGN are cocooned in gas and dust that...  Read More >>

Even a suitable skeptic of certain pronouncements about the age and structure of the Universe should be pleased...  Read More >>

There has been very considerable progress in research into low-mass stars, brown dwarfs and extrasolar planets during...  Read More >>

Describing interstellar matter in our galaxy in all of its various forms, this book also considers the physical...  Read More >>

Providing the first comprehensive historical study of the New General Catalogue, this book is an important resource...  Read More >>