The stars of heaven
Title:
The stars of heaven
Author:
Pickover, Clifford A.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2001]
©2001
Physical Description:
xx, 233 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
Stellar parallax and the quest for transcendence -- joy and Paschen of starlight -- Spectral classes, temperatures, and doppler shifts -- Luminosity and the distance modulus -- Hertzsprung-Russell, mass-luminosity relations, and binary stars -- Last tango on the heliopause -- Stellar evolution and the helium flash -- Stellar graveyards, nucleosynthesis, and why we exist -- Some final thoughts.
ISBN:
9780195148749
Format :
Book
