Supermassive black holes are now believed to play an important role in the evolution of the Universe. Every respectable galaxy ...
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Continue readingOn the occasion of the retirement of Ulrich Schwarz, a symposium was held in Groningen in May of 1996, celebrating his contributions ...
Continue readingThis volume documents the contributions presented at the Seventh Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society (Sociedad ...
Continue reading"This volume presents a multi-disciplinary approach to the physical mechanisms which structure the shape, evolution and ...
Continue readingThis book recounts results obtained via the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) on comets, in the close environment of pre-main ...
Continue readingThis book addresses the possible origins, development and fate of intelligent life in the universe. The author presents a ...
Continue readingThis book contains an up-to-date review of the structure and evolution of disk galaxies from both the observational and theoretical ...
Continue readingThis is a proceedings book of the symposium "Mapping the Galaxy and Nearby Galaxies" held on Ishigaki Island, Okinawa, ...
Continue readingThe possibilities of astronomical observation have dramatically increased over the last decade. Major satellites, like the ...
Continue readingThe biggest questions in astronomy are those of how the planets, stars, galaxies, and the Universe were formed. ORIGINS describes ...
Continue readingIntroduces the experimental and theoretical particle physics background underlying several aspects of cosmology: matter anti-matter ...
Continue readingAstronomers have used telescopes, operating at the visible wavelengths that we see with our eye, to reveal the true extent ...
Continue readingThis book contains a collection of lecture notes written by recognized experts in the field of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). ...
Continue readingThis book contains the proceedings of a workshop held at ESO headquarters in Garching in 2004, the first meeting devoted ...
Continue readingThis book is a personal account of the evolution of millimeter-wave astronomy at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. ...
Continue readingFor us to keep the Sun shining, we must first change our attitudes. We must put profit and short-term thinking aside. And ...
Continue readingHumans evolved when the Sun was in the great void of the Local Bubble. The Sun entered the present environment of interstellar ...
Continue readingThis book assumes only a basic knowledge of physics but looks in detail at many topics, including energy levels in atoms, ...
Continue readingPart one of this detailed book provides a comprehensive review of star clusters – including open, globular, extragalactic, ...
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