Planetary Nebulae

A. Acker

ISBN 10: 0792324404 / ISBN 13: 9780792324409

Editore: Springer Netherlands, Springer Netherlands Aug 1993, 1993

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This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Planetary nebulae are a keystone for the understanding of the evolution of stars, for deep insights into the physical processes prevailing in highly excited dilute nebulae, and for the chemical evolution in galaxies. These objects, displaying an intriguing morphology, have a `short' lifetime of a few tens of thousands of years, and have become one of the best studied classes of celestial sources. However, despite large and successful efforts from both the observational and theoretical side, planetary nebulae still keep some of their secrets (like the widely unknown distances) and will undoubtedly also be objects of thorough investigations in the years to come.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 648 pp. Englisch.

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• Titolo: Planetary Nebulae
• Editore: Springer Netherlands, Springer Netherlands Aug 1993
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0792324404
• ISBN 13: 9780792324409
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu

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Riassunto

Planetary nebulae are a keystone for the understanding of the evolution of stars, for deep insights into the physical processes prevailing in highly excited dilute nebulae, and for the chemical evolution in galaxies. These objects, displaying an intriguing morphology, have a "short" lifetime of a few tens of thousands of years, and have become one of the best studied classes of celestial sources. However, despite large and successful efforts from both the observational and theoretical side, planetary nebulae still keep some of their secrets (like the widely unknown distances) and will undoubtedly also be objects of thorough investigations in the years to come.

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`... the editors have done a good job and I can wholeheartedly recommend this volume to both non-specialists and active researchers.'
Space Science Reviews, 75 (1996)