Guide to the Universe: Stars and Galaxies
1st Edition
Published on 22. December 2009
232 pages
978-1-57356-749-7 (ISBN)
Description
This up-to-date volume offers student researchers an unexcelled primer on current scientific knowledge about stars.
This volume in the Greenwood Guides to the Universe series provides the most up-to-date understanding available of the current knowledge about stars. Scientifically sound, but written with the student in mind, Stars is an excellent first step for young people researching the exciting scientific discoveries that continue to extend our knowledge of the universe. Stars is organized thematically to help students better understand these most interesting heavenly bodies.
Stars discusses all areas of what is known about the subject. It will help student understand things such as white dwarfs, neutron stars, pulsars, and black holes. And it will answer student questions such as: Why do stars have different colors and how are they classified? How do we know what stars are made of? How did scientists figure out how stars evolved?
This volume in the Greenwood Guides to the Universe series provides the most up-to-date understanding available of the current knowledge about stars. Scientifically sound, but written with the student in mind, Stars is an excellent first step for young people researching the exciting scientific discoveries that continue to extend our knowledge of the universe. Stars is organized thematically to help students better understand these most interesting heavenly bodies.
Stars discusses all areas of what is known about the subject. It will help student understand things such as white dwarfs, neutron stars, pulsars, and black holes. And it will answer student questions such as: Why do stars have different colors and how are they classified? How do we know what stars are made of? How did scientists figure out how stars evolved?
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
File size
2,20 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-57356-749-7 (9781573567497)
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Content
Series Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 What Is a Star?
2 Star Light, Star Bright
3 Putting Together the Puzzle of Stellar Evolution
4 Variable Stars and Multiple Star Systems
5 What Makes a Galaxy?
6 The Milky Way
7 Arms in Disk Galaxies
8 Galaxy Interactions
9 Active Galaxies
10 Galaxy Evolution
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 What Is a Star?
2 Star Light, Star Bright
3 Putting Together the Puzzle of Stellar Evolution
4 Variable Stars and Multiple Star Systems
5 What Makes a Galaxy?
6 The Milky Way
7 Arms in Disk Galaxies
8 Galaxy Interactions
9 Active Galaxies
10 Galaxy Evolution
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
