A Hundred Billion Stars - Couverture souple

Rigutti, Mario

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0262680505 ISBN 13 : 9780262680509

Editeur : The MIT Press, 1986

Synopsis

Starting from the solar system and shooting outward to the hundred billion stars of our galaxy, Mario Rigutti celebrates the wonder of celestial events by making them understandable to the nonscientist. He underscores the power of the methods of modern science by putting them into the context of our everyday lives. Among the subjects Rigutti clarifies along the way are the sources and fate of the sun's energy; the measurement of stellar distances, magnitudes, temperatures, and masses; the spectral classification of the stars; the importance of binary stars; the nature of pulsars, supernovae; and planetary nebulae; the interstellar dust and gas; and the life cycles of stars like the sun and of more massive stars.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Mario Rigutti is Professor of Astronomy at the University of Naples and Director of the Naples Astronomical Observatory. The original Italian edition of A Hundred Billion Stars was awarded the European science-writing prize, GLAXO "CEE."

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The MIT Press
• Date d'édition: 1986
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0262680505
• ISBN 13: 9780262680509
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 316
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