From black clouds to black holes /
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| Author / Creator: | Narlikar, Jayant Vishnu, 1938- |
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| Edition: | 3rd ed. |
| Imprint: | Singapore : World Scientific, c2012. |
| Description: | xii, 202 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | World Scientific series in astronomy and astrophysics ; v. 13 World Scientific series in astronomy and astrophysics ; v. 13. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8921997 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Prologue
- Chapter 1. On Stars and Humans
- Chapter 2. Light: The Storehouse of Information
- Chapter 3. The Vital Statistics of Stars
- Chapter 4. How Far are the Stars?
- Chapter 5. A Star is Born
- Chapter 6. The Secret of Stellar Energy
- Chapter 7. The Origin of Chemical Elements
- Chapter 8. When Stars Explode
- Chapter 9. Very Dense Stars
- Chapter 10. Black Holes
- Chapter 11. Binary and Variable Stars
- Chapter 12. The Quest Continues
- Epilogue
- Appendix: Powers of Ten, Logarithms and the Magnitude Scale
- Credits for Images
- Index
