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How does the Galaxy Work?

"This volume presents a multi-disciplinary approach to the physical mechanisms which structure the shape, evolution and ...

ISO Science Legacy

This book recounts results obtained via the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) on comets, in the close environment of pre-main ...

Island Universes : Structure and Evolution of Disk Galaxies

This book contains an up-to-date review of the structure and evolution of disk galaxies from both the observational and theoretical ...

Jets From Young Stars III : Numerical MHD and Instabilities

This volume contains the lecture notes of the Third JETSET School on Jets from Young Stars focussing on Numerical MHD and ...

Jets from Young Stars

This volume contains the edited lecture notes of the First JETSET School on Jets from Young Stars: Models and Constraints, ...

Jets from Young Stars II : Clues from High Angular Resolution Observations

This volume contains the edited lecture notes of the Second JETSET School on Jets from Young Stars: Clues from High Angular ...

Mapping the Galaxy and Nearby Galaxies

This is a proceedings book of the symposium "Mapping the Galaxy and Nearby Galaxies" held on Ishigaki Island, Okinawa, ...

Multiple Stars Across the H-R Diagram : Proceedings of the ESO Workshop held in Garching, Germany, 12-15 July 2005

Stars show a marked tendency to be in systems of different multiplicity, ranging from simple binaries and triples to globular ...

Multiwavelength Mapping of Galaxy Formation and Evolution

The possibilities of astronomical observation have dramatically increased over the last decade. Major satellites, like the ...

New Light on Dark Stars

There has been very considerable progress in research into low-mass stars, brown dwarfs and extrasolar planets during the ...

Pattern Asterisms

Orion is a familiar constellation. He even looks like a hunter – at least it’s easy to visualize his belt and sword.Since ...

Planetary Nebulae Beyond the Milky Way

This book contains the proceedings of a workshop held at ESO headquarters in Garching in 2004, the first meeting devoted ...

Plasma Physics and Controlled Nuclear Fusion

The primary objectives of this book are, firstly, to present the essential theoretical background needed to understand recent ...

Scattering from Model Nonspherical Particles

The scattering of electromagnetic radiation by nonspherical particles has become an increasingly important research topic ...

Sirius : Brightest Diamond in the Night Sky

Sirius - A Diamond in the Night will tell two stories. The first and most obvious is why the star known as Sirius has been ...

Sirius Matters

Since very early times Sirius was a point of attraction in the night sky. It served to synchronize calendars in antiquity ...

Solar Journey: The Significance of our Galactic Environment for the Heliosphere and Earth

Humans evolved when the Sun was in the great void of the Local Bubble. The Sun entered the present environment of interstellar ...

Solar Sails :A Novel Approach To Interplanetary Travel

This book describes solar sails, how they work and what they will be used for in the exploration of space in an easily readable ...

Solar-Type Activity in Main-Sequence Stars

Solar-type activity over the whole range of the electromagnetic spectrum is a phenomenon inherent in the majority of low- ...

Spectroscopy: The Key to the Stars

This book assumes only a basic knowledge of physics but looks in detail at many topics, including energy levels in atoms, ...

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