About stars : their formation, evolution, compositions, locations and companions
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TextPublication details: Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., 2020 Description: xviii, 368 pagesISBN: 9781786347121Subject(s): Stars | Stars -- Formation | Stars -- EvolutionDDC classification: 524 Online resources: Table of content | Reviews Summary: On a clear and moonless night, especially in remote areas such as deserts, myriads of points of light cover the sky. The great majority of them are stars, many like the Sun, but so far away that they can only be seen as point sources of light. The problem faced by astronomers is to find their properties and distances, just from the light they emit. This is done by using the knowledge of science, mainly physics, acquired from small-scale experiments carried out on Earth. However, the stars themselves are laboratories in which matter behaves in ways that cannot be reproduced on Earth so, in finding out about stars, we complement scientific knowledge gained from earthbound experimentation.
This book describes the means — some very ingenious — by which to explore the properties, locations and planetary companions of stars, and provides a sound foundation for further study.
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| 524 LEB-A Introduction to stellar astrophysics (An) | 524 OJH-P Probing the long term evolution of low mass X-Ray binaries | 524 TYS-A Astrophysics for people in a hurry | 524 WOO-A About stars : their formation, evolution, compositions, locations and companions | 524(031) SHI-E Encyclopedia of Planetary Sciences | 524(031) SHI-E Encyclopedia of Planetary Sciences | 52-43 HAR-A Accretion processes in star formation |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
On a clear and moonless night, especially in remote areas such as deserts, myriads of points of light cover the sky. The great majority of them are stars, many like the Sun, but so far away that they can only be seen as point sources of light. The problem faced by astronomers is to find their properties and distances, just from the light they emit. This is done by using the knowledge of science, mainly physics, acquired from small-scale experiments carried out on Earth. However, the stars themselves are laboratories in which matter behaves in ways that cannot be reproduced on Earth so, in finding out about stars, we complement scientific knowledge gained from earthbound experimentation.
This book describes the means — some very ingenious — by which to explore the properties, locations and planetary companions of stars, and provides a sound foundation for further study.
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