The Pillars of Creation : giant molecular clouds, star formation, and cosmic recycling /: giant molecular clouds, star formation, and cosmic recycling. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Martin Beech.
• Other Names: Beech, Martin, 1959-
• Contents: Preface; References; Contents; 1: Reading the Sky; Invoking Buridan's Donkey; Halley's Lucid Spots; Wright's Via Lactea; The Star-Gauging Siblings; It All Begins with M1; The Columns Arrayed Before Us; An Evening with Norton; Further Revelations from Norton; The Gathering of Stars; The Spectra of William Huggins; The View Going Forward; References; 2: In the Eye of the Beholder; Let There Be Light; A Quantum Mechanical Aside; Unweaving Light; The Color of Excitation; Seeing Red in Orion; Tools of the Trade; Colors of the Crab; Coronal Gas and a Cosmic Onion. Pulsars and Free ElectronsReferences; 3: The Dark Clouds Revealed; Kapteyn Tries Again; A System of Stars, or Many Star Systems; Trumpler's Dim View; Baade's Improbable Window; Seeing the Blues; Interstellar Extinction; References; 4: The Hyperfine Split and Atomic Jitters; Star Noise; Dialing Radio HI; The Molecular Giants Emerge; Born of Stardust; The Pillars of Creation; Are GMCs Dangerous?; Life in a Molecular Cloud; References; 5: In the Grip of Gravity; The Life and Times of a Molecular Cloud; Getting to Know the Stars; Making Stars the Lockyer Way; The Jeans Criterion. Young Stellar Objects The Stellar Birth Line; Acquiring Stardom; B2FH; The Engines of Evolution; First and Last; References; 6: It's a Far Flung Life; References; Appendix The Magnitude Scale and Interstellar Extinction; Index.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Springer
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 523.1/125; 500; Popular works; Molecular clouds; Stars -- Formation; Astronomy; Chemistry, Organic; Astrobiology; Molecular clouds; Stars -- Formation; Science -- Cosmology; Science -- Chemistry -- Organic; Science -- Astronomy; Relativity physics; Organic chemistry; UFOs & extraterrestrial beings; Popular astronomy & space; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319487755; 3319487752
• Related ISBNs: 9783319487748
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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