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Stellar Evolution, Second Edition covers the significant advances in the understanding of birth, life, and death of stars.This book is divided into nine chapters and begins with a description of the characteristics of stars according to their brightness, distance, size, mass, age, and chemical composition. The next chapters deal with the families, structure, and birth of stars. These topics are followed by discussions of the chemical composition and the evolution of main-sequence stars. A show more chapter focuses on the unique features of the sun as a star, including its evolution, magnetic fields, act show lessTags
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- Original publication date
- 1967
- First words
- The study of stellar evolution has much in common with the study of evolution in biology.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)The most important of these are (a) evolution after the red-giant branch, (b) the evolution of very close binaries, (c) the origin of stars and galaxies.
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- English
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