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Astronomer Harwit has finally updated his classic textbook to encompass the exciting developments of the decade since its last edition. It is ideal for those Scientific American readers who are mathematically literate and who want to pursue topics…

This book presents a comprehensive, unified view of the obseving methods and tools of contemporary astrophysics. The collection of information coming from the celestial sources, the methods to process it, the fundamental laws of physics which control…

Astrophysics With a PC is the first book to appear in the English language for amateur astronomers who want to explore astrophysics with a personal computer. Among the subjects covered are the morphology of comet tails, meteor dynamics, distance…

Dit boekje bespreekt de levensloop van lichte, middelzware en zware sterren. Daarnaast wordt ook aandacht besteed aan de vergelijking van de theorie met de waarnemingen. In appendix is de wiskundige behandeling van polytroopsterren gegeven.

Voor aardse stervelingen is de afstand naar de maan al onvoorstelbaar groot, maar sterrenkundigen zijn gewend te werken met afstanden van miljoenen of miljarden lichtjaren. Hoe meet men al die afstanden en hoe ver in het heelal kunnen we eigenlijk…

Here the reader will find a description of the current state of experimentaland theoretical investigations of neutron stars in all their manifestations:radio pulsars, X-ray pul- sars, X-ray bursters, transient X-ray sources, andso on. The approach…