Galaxies & stars books

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

Space observations are currently providing a glimpse of various new states of matter possibly present in compact...  Read More >>

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

Provides an overview of the history of ideas about the sun and the stars, from antiquity to modern times. Covering...  Read More >>

Research of the interstellar medium (ISM) has advanced rapidly over the years. We are able to investigate the ISM...  Read More >>

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The Cologne-Bonn-Zermatt symposium is a well established series of conferences, occurring on a 5-year cycle, on...  Read More >>

The?rsteditionofthistextappearedin1994.Shortlyafterthethirdprinting, our editor suggested that we attempt a second...  Read More >>

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Presents the results of the workshop discussions on the jet phenomenon on different astrophysical scales and covers...  Read More >>

This is one of a two-volume set that deal with the entire Milky Way - this first volume looks at what can be seen...  Read More >>

Offers the technology/media support package that includes: 6 Interactives; PowerWeb (web-based research and interactive...  Read More >>

This book explains, in a form intelligible to graduate students, its relation to the formation of new stars, to...  Read More >>

Observing and Measuring Visual Double Stars .  Read More >>

The international colloquium ""Open Issues in Local Star Formation and Early Stellar Evolution"" was focused on...  Read More >>

Features the proceedings of the plenary sessions of the Joint European and National Astronomical Meeting (2002)....  Read More >>

We present detailed studies of the infrared spectra of carbon-rich evolved stars. Theses studies yield insight in...  Read More >>

at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 1997 and at the Hong Kong University in 1999. We approached...  Read More >>

Presents maps that are arranged in slices known as gores, each covering approximately one-fifth of the sky. This...  Read More >>

Finally, we learn about the modern study of interstellar matter: the discovery of complex organic molecules between...  Read More >>

The Orion Nebula is the closest center of massive star formation—a stellar nursery that reproduces the conditions...  Read More >>

Unresolved problems of radiation hazard prediction and spacecraft protection, radiation experiments on board the...  Read More >>

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

This volume contains the Proceedings of the Fifth Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society (Sociedad...  Read More >>