From Black Clouds to Black Holes
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From Black Clouds to Black Holes

  1. 172 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

From Black Clouds to Black Holes

About this book

This book describes in nontechnical language one of the success stories of modern (twentieth-century) astronomy. It presents us with the physical picture of what constitutes a star, a description of how a star evolves with time, how its shape and brightness change, how it manufactures the chemical elements deep in its interior, what makes it explode… The presentation also includes exotic objects such as supernovae, pulsars, neutron stars and white dwarfs, and of course, black holes. This revised edition brings the discussion up to date with the inclusion of astronomical events like Supernova 1987A and findings from the Hubble Space Telescope as well as other observations. The book is appropriate as supplementary material for an elementary course on astronomy and astrophysics.

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Yes, you can access From Black Clouds to Black Holes by Jayant V Narlikar in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Physical Sciences & Astronomy & Astrophysics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
WSPC
Year
1995
eBook ISBN
9789813103191

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. 1. On Stars and Humans
  4. 2. Light: The Storehouse of Information
  5. 3. The Vital Statistics of Stars
  6. 4. How Far are the Stars?
  7. 5. A Star is Born
  8. 6. The Secret of Stellar Energy
  9. 7. The Stars As Fusion Reactors
  10. 8. When Stars Explode
  11. 9. Very Dense Stars
  12. 10. Black Holes
  13. 11. The Quest Continues
  14. Appendix: Powers of Ten, Logarithms and the Magnitude Scale
  15. Index