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The stars of heaven /
Do a little armchair space travel, rub elbows with alien life forms, and stretch your mind to the furthest corners of our uncharted universe. With this astonishing guidebook, you don't have to be an astronomer to explore the mysteries of stars and their profound meaning for human existence. Cli...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2004.
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| Edición: | 1st Oxford University Press pbk. ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ch. 1. Stellar parallax and the quest for transcendence
- ch. 2. The joy and Paschen of starlight
- ch. 3. Spectral classes, temperatures, and doppler shifts
- ch. 4. Luminosity and the distance modulus
- ch. 5. Hertzsprung-Russell, mass-luminosity relations, and binary stars
- ch. 6. Last tango on the heliopause
- ch. 7. Stellar evolution and the helium flash
- ch. 8. Stellar graveyards, nucleosynthesis, and why we exist
- ch. 9. Some final thoughts.