A compact yet comprehensive account concerned with how key aspects of stellar structure, evolution and nucleosynthesis can be understood in terms of basic physics. Begins with the most elementary factors and progresses to more advanced physical…
Requiring no astronomical background, this excellent introductory examines the physics of dust particles in interstellar, circumstellar and extragalactic space. After presenting relevant astronomical concepts, the author discusses the physical…
The publication of The Internal Constitution of the Stars by Arthur Eddington in 1926 was a major landmark in the development of modern theoretical astrophysics. Not only did Eddington effectively create the discipline of the structure, constitution,…
Verhandeling over het verschijnsel van exploderende sterren welke veel invloed hebben op het ontstaan van materie in het heelal
Wat zijn nova's, om maar niet te spreken van gigantische bewegende zonnen, de Supernova's? Sinds het ontstaan van onze…