Stellar Evolution
2nd Edition
Published on 22. October 2013
180 pages
978-1-4832-7948-0 (ISBN)
Description
Stellar Evolution, Second Edition covers the significant advances in the understanding of birth, life, and death of stars. This book is divided into nine chapters and begins with a description of the characteristics of stars according to their brightness, distance, size, mass, age, and chemical composition. The next chapters deal with the families, structure, and birth of stars. These topics are followed by discussions of the chemical composition and the evolution of main-sequence stars. A chapter focuses on the unique features of the sun as a star, including its evolution, magnetic fields, activity, corona, and neutrinos. Other chapters consider the life histories of individual stars from their birth to their death. The concluding chapter describes the massive changes in Earth's galaxy with time and their observational characteristics. This book will prove useful to astronomers and researchers.
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A. J. Meadows
Stellar Evolution
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04/1978
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Pergamon
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Preface to the Second EditionChapter 1 The Characteristics of Stars2 Stellar Families3 The Structure of Stars4 The Birth of Stars5 The Main Sequence6 The Sun as a Star7 Red Giants and After8 Old Age and Death9 Stars and GalaxiesFurther ReadingIndex
