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Dust in Galaxies (Paperback)
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Dust in Galaxies (Paperback)
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Without interstellar dust, the Universe as we see it today would
not exist. Yet at first we considered this vital ingredient merely
an irritating fog that prevented a clear view of the stars and
nebulae in the Milky Way and other galaxies. We now know that
interstellar dust has essential roles in the physics and chemistry
of the formation of stars and planetary systems, the creation of
the building blocks of life, and in the movement of those molecules
to new planets. This is the story in this book. After introducing
the materials this interstellar dust is made of, the authors
explain the range of sizes and shapes of the dust grains in the
Milky Way galaxy and the life cycle of dust, starting from the
origins of dust grains in stellar explosions through to their
turbulent destruction. Later on we see the variety of processes in
interstellar space involving dust and the events there that cause
the dust to change in ways that astronomers and astrobiologists can
use to indirectly observe those events. This book is written for a
general audience, concentrating on ideas rather than detailed
mathematics and chemical formulae, and is the first time
interstellar dust has been discussed at an accessible level.
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