The Supernova Story / / Laurence Marschall.
Astronomers believe that a supernova is a massive explosion signaling the death of a star, causing a cosmic recycling of the chemical elements and leaving behind a pulsar, black hole, or nothing at all. In an engaging story of the life cycles of stars, Laurence Marschall tells how early astronomers...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021] ©1994 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Science Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (343 p.) :; 74 figs |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface (1994)
- Preface (1988)
- Acknowledgments
- CHAPTER 1. A VIEW FROM PLANET EARTH
- CHAPTER 2. MESSAGES IN STARLIGHT
- CHAPTER 3. NEW STARS IN ANCIENT TIMES
- CHAPTER 4. SUPERNOVAE AND THE REVOLUTION IN SCIENCE
- CHAPTER 5. THE LONG WAIT
- CHAPTER 6. WHY STARS EXPLODE
- CHAPTER 7. WISPS AND TATTERS
- CHAPTER 8. THE EYE OF THE STORM
- CHAPTER 9. SEEDING THE STARS
- CHAPTER 10. COSMIC DIMENSIONS
- CHAPTER 11. A DEATH IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD
- CHAPTER 12. INTO THE FUTURE
- Epilogue (1994)
- Bibliographical Notes
- Glossary
- Index