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