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Extreme Stars - At the Edge of Creation (Paperback)
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Extreme Stars - At the Edge of Creation (Paperback)
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Loot Price R578
Discovery Miles 5 780
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Over the past 200 years, our knowledge of stars has expanded
enormously. From seeing myriad dots of different brightnesses, we
haved moved on to measure their distances, temperatures, sizes,
chemical compositions, and even ages, finding both young and
ancient stars that dwarf our Sun and are dwarfed by it. Unique in
its approach, Extreme Stars describes the lives of stars from a new
perspective by examining their amazing features. The result is a
refreshing, up-to-date, and engaging overview of stellar evolution,
suitable for everyone interested in viewing or studying the stars.
Ten chapters, generously illustrated throughout, explain the
natures of the brightest, the largest, the hottest, and the
youngest, among other kinds of stars, ending with a selection of
the strangest stars the Universe has to offer. Extreme Stars shows
how stars develop and die and how each extreme turns into another
under the inexorable twin forces of time and gravity. James B.
Kaler is Professor of Astronomy at the University of Illinois,
Champaign-Urbana. He has held Fulbright and Guggenheim Fellowships,
has been awarded medals for his work from the University of Liege
in Belgium and the University of Mexico, and most recently was
selected to give the Armand Spitz lecture by the Great Lakes
Planetarium Association. His research area, in which he has
published over 100 papers, involves dying stars. Kaler has also
written for a variety of popular magazines, including Astronomy,
Sky & Telescope, and Scientific American. His previous books
include The Ever-Changing Sky (Cambridge, 1996), Stars and their
Spectra (Cambridge, 1997), Cosmic Clouds (Scientific American
Library Paperback, 1998), and The Little Book of Stars (Copernicus,
2000). He is a current member of the Board of Directors of the
Astronomical Society of the Pacific and is a frequent guest on
radio and television shows.
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