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The point of this book is to provide a brief, easy-to-read but comprehensive overview of stars: where they came from; what they are made of; what will happen to them, and what they mean to us from a scientific, aesthetic and cultural point of view. The book will focus on stars and astronomy, and will keep technical physics to a minimum.
Geschrieben für:
General readers
Inhalt
- Stars:
- Beginnings.
- Defining a star.
- Chemical composition.
- Age.
- Gravitational compression.
- Nuclear reactions.
- Collections:
- Distances and luminosities.
- Doubles, multiples, and masses.
- Clusters.
- Our Galaxy.
- Other galaxies.
- The universe of galaxies.
- Kinds:
- The Sun.
- Spectra and classes.
- The HR diagram.
- Dwarfs and giants.
- Supergiants.
- White dwarfs.
- Parade:
- The night sky.
- Constellations.
- Naming the stars.
- Your fortune please.
- Timekeepers.
- The navigator.
- Bazaar:
- Variable stars.
- Pitch and catch.
- Strange chemistries.
- Planetary nebulae.
- Supernovae.
- Neutron stars.
- Linkages:
- Main sequence evolution.
- Growth.
- Transformation.
- Cataclysm.
- Darkness.
- Dawn: Nebulae.
- Building blocks.
- Collapse.
- Birth.
- Disks and planets.
- Looking outward.
Der Autor
James B. Kaler is Professor of Astronomy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has held both Fulbright and Guggenheim Fellowships, and has been awarded medals for his work from the University of Liege (Belgium) and the University of Mexico. He is the author of six books and dozens of articles on astronomy, including The Little Book of Stars (Copernicus Books, 2000) and lectures frequently. He also directs and maintains several educational websites, including the highly regarded and award-winning "Stars of the Week" site at the University of Illinois: http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/~kaler/sow/sow.html.
Springer Berlin, 2001, 184 S.
16,00 Euro
Hardcover, 30 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-387-95005-1
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