Hidden Bibliographic Details
| ISBN: | 9783642453021
3642453023
3642453015
9783642453014
9783642453014
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ScienceDirect, viewed Mar. 20, 2014).
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| Summary: | The outstanding question in astronomy at the turn of the twentieth century was: What are the stars and why are they as they are? In this volume, the story of how the answer to this fundamental question was unravelled is narrated in an informal style, with emphasis on the underlying physics. Although the foundations of astrophysics were laid down by 1870, and the edifice was sufficiently built up by 1920, the definitive proof of many of the prescient conjectures made in the 1920s and 1930s came to be established less than ten years ago. This book discusses these recent developments in the context of discussing the nature of the stars, their stability and the source of the energy they radiate.
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| Other form: | Printed edition: 9783642453014
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| Standard no.: | 10.1007/978-3-642-45302-1
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