Galaxies & stars books

New observational windows at ultraviolet, infrared and millimetric wavelengths (provided by ROSAT, IRAM, IUE, IRAS,...  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 collection of seven reviews covering the following constituents of the interstellar medium: dust, molecular gas,...  Read More >>

Measurements of the composition of various bodies and particles in the solar system and the galaxy give us a remarkably...  Read More >>

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

"The ""Great Atlas of the Stars"" is a guide to the night sky that enables all generations of stargazers to look...  Read More >>

This text summarises our knowledge of the properties, origin, orbital evolution and accretion mechanism of extraterrestrial...  Read More >>

The Energetic Gamma-Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET) instru­ ment on the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory left as a...  Read More >>

The Third Microquasar Workshop (or the 'Fifth' Workshop on Galactic Relativ­ istic Jet Sources), was held in Granada,...  Read More >>

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Once you have looked at the night sky on a moonless night it is not hard to realise why so much of our science and...  Read More >>

The author demonstrates how the dark matter problem is now connected with two of the hottest areas in recent cosmology:...  Read More >>

The SOC proposed a program with extended general overviews and highlights of non-evolved and evolved binaries, with...  Read More >>

The term proto-planetary nebulae (PPNe) in the context of the late stages of stellar evolution was created only...  Read More >>

Dark matter has become one of the most exciting and central fields of astrophysics, particle physics and cosmology....  Read More >>

This book is a simple, non-technical introduction to cosmology, explaining what it is and what cosmologists do....  Read More >>

Proceedings of the 4th Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society (SEA), held in Santiago de Compostela,...  Read More >>

Starbursts are regions characterized by a particularly rapid star formation process and are quite often located...  Read More >>

The proceedings of the international conference held in honor of Lodewijk Woltjer, focus on the physics, origin...  Read More >>

More than half of all stars in the universe formed and evolved as binary systems and their study is essential for...  Read More >>

Conceived more than six years ago, this book took much effort to develop, and several updates in parts of the book...  Read More >>

At the time of writing, in fact, books of this kind were not available with the exception of the excellent book...  Read More >>

This monograph is the first book exclusively devoted to Electrohydrodynamics in Dusty and Dirty Plasmas with extended...  Read More >>

This proceedings volume contains reviews on major particle astrophysics topics in the field of dark matter, as well...  Read More >>

Dedicated to supernova remnants in their earliest phase of evolution, the main goals of this book are to provide...  Read More >>