Galaxies & stars books

Observing variable stars is one of the major contributions amateur astronomers make to science. There are 36,000...  Read More >>

Provides a set of images of Local Group Galaxies and shows the important objects, including many thousands of individual...  Read More >>

This material also includes tables of line frequencies from 12 MHz to 30THz (AlOJLm) as well as FORTRAN computer...  Read More >>

The search for dark matter in the universe is one of the central fields of astrophysics, particle physics and cosmology....  Read More >>

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After a historical perspective for research and an overview of interstellar environments, this work examines gas-dust...  Read More >>

Hernanz and JosT (both of the Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya, Spain) present 94 papers from the May 2002...  Read More >>

These include comprehensive articles by leaders in fields extending from stellar atmospheres through properties...  Read More >>

This work consists of about 20 lectures on theoretical and observational aspects of astrophysical black holes. The...  Read More >>

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Written for active researchers and graduate students, Dark Sky, Dark Matter answers the questions of ""why is the...  Read More >>

Optics of Cosmic Dust describes what we currently know about cosmic dust, how we know it, and the research efforts...  Read More >>

Focuses on the chemical and morphological properties of dust particles, both cosmological and terrestrial, and some...  Read More >>

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Many important observational clues about our understanding of how stars and planets form in the interior of molecular...  Read More >>

Galaxies have a history. This has become clear from sky surveys which have shown that distant galaxies, formed early...  Read More >>

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Mergers are the mechanisms by which galaxy clusters are assembled through the hierarchical growth of smaller clusters...  Read More >>

Astronomer James Kaler takes us on a tour of the 100 most interesting stars, describing their characteristics and...  Read More >>

Black holes exist in galactic nuclei and in some X-ray binaries found in our own galaxy and the large Magellanic...  Read More >>

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

VON STEIGER / The Astrophysics of Galactic Cosmic Rays 3 I: KEY OBSERVATIONS ON GALACTIC COSMIC RAYS M. CHRISTIAN...  Read More >>

A wide range of topics are covered, ranging from supernovae to active galactic nuclei, cosmic gamma rays to neutrinos...  Read More >>

As recently as ten years ago it was still being debated whether galactic stellar-mass black holes existed or not.It...  Read More >>

A range of topics are covered in this volume, from supernovae to active galactic nuclei, and cosmic gamma rays to...  Read More >>