Starlight An Introduction to Stellar Physics for Amateurs /

• Main Author: Robinson, Keith. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2009.
• Edition: 1.
• Series: Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy Series,
• Subjects: Science (General).; Astronomy.; Popular Science.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.; Popular Science in Astronomy.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0708-0

When you look up at the sky at night and see the stars, do you understand what youre 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 wil...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - The River of Starlight
• Starlight by Numbers
• From Light to Starlight
• Space - The Great Radiation Field
• A Multitude of Magnitudes for the Colors of Starlight
• The Photons Must Get Through - Radiative Transfer
• First Look Inside a Star - The Atmosphere
• Deep Inside a Star
• In Space Between Stars
• A Star Story - 10 Billion Years in the Making
• Appendix 1: The Greek Alphabet
• Appendix 2: Astronomical and Physical Units and Constants
• Appendix 3: The Doppler Effect
• Index.