Part one of this detailed book provides a comprehensive review of star clusters – including open, globular, extragalactic, ...
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                Starbursts are important features of early galaxy evolution. Many of the distant, high-redshift galaxies we are able to detect ...
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                Supernovae mark the deaths of massive stars or of white dwarfs in binary systems. Even when they occur in galaxies millions ...
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                Published under the auspices of the Royal Astronomical Society, this volume contains a set of extensive school tested lectures, ...
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                This volume consists of papers developed from a joint ACE/ISSI symposium on the "Composition of Matter" honoring the occasion ...
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                This book is devoted to the selected lectures presented in the 6th NATO-ASI series entitled "The Electromagnetic Spectrum ...
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                This book presents the evolution of the heliosphere through an entire solar activity cycle. The last solar cycle (cycle 23) ...
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                Describing interstellar matter in our galaxy in all of its various forms, this book also considers the physical and chemical ...
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                Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory is quite an interesting place for historians: several changes of nationality between ...
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                Barrie Jones addresses the question "are we alone?", which is one of the most frequently asked questions by scientists ...
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                This book describes the state-of-the art instruments for measuring the solar irradiance from soft x-ray to the near infrared ...
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                In the last 45 years, X-ray astronomy has become an integral part of modern astrophysics and cosmology. There is a wide range ...
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                This set of lectures collects surveys of open problems in celestial dynamics and dynamical astronomy applied to solar, extra-solar ...
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                Professor Kopal, who devoted 60 years of his scientific life to the exploration of close binary systems, initiated a breakthrough ...
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