What are the stars? [electronic resource] / Ganesan Srinivasan.

9783642453021 electronic book
3642453023 electronic book
9783642453014

Berlin : Springer, 2014.

English

1 online resource : illustrations.

10.1007/978-3-642-45302-1 doi

QB801

523.8

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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