Starlight

by Robinson, Keith

• ISBN13: 9781441907073
• ISBN10: 1441907076
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-09-29
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

When you look up at the sky at night and see the stars, do you understand what you're looking at? What is starlight made up of, and how does it travel to us? How are stars born, and how do they die? How do we figure out how far away are the stars and how massive they are? Can we know which stars will go supernova and which will end up as white dwarfs or black holes? How long will our Sun continue to shine down on us, and how do we know its age?

Table of Contents

A River of Starlight	p. 1
Starlight by Numbers	p. 7
From Light to Starlight	p. 23
Space - The Great Radiation Field	p. 59
A Multitude of Magnitudes for the Colors of Starlight	p. 87
The Photons Must Get Through - Radiative Transfer	p. 119
First Look Inside a Star - The Atmosphere	p. 145
Deep Inside aStar	p. 175
In the Space Between Stars	p. 215
A Star Story-10 Billion Years in the Making	p. 235
The Greek Alphabet	p. 265
Astronomical and Physical Units and Constants	p. 267
The Doppler Effect	p. 271
Index	p. 273
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