EAN: 9781475767599

LITTLE BOOK SERIES THE LITTLE BOOK OF STARS -...

The Little Book of Stars tells the story of stellar science and what the stars mean to us from
a variety of perspectives. Beginning with the big picture ' the book moves through
progressively more and more intimate views until we feel we can hold the stars in our hands 
from which we can then throw them back to the sky to see our place among them. The book opens
with a summary of the event that created our Universe  the Big Bang  and then goes on to
describe the natures of the Big Bang's progeny  the stars-what they are  how they shine  and
how they can live such immensely long lives. Approaching horne  it next examines the measures
of the stars: where they are  how they are collected together from pairs to galaxies of
billions  and how we learn of their individual properties. Yet closer  we look in depth at the
Sun and at the physical differences among the stars  at the immense range of properties they
possess. Finally  arriving at Earth  we see the signif icance of the stars to human life  how
we have used them to tell our stories and to find where we are in both space and time. v From
this base  the book looks more closely at stellar details  concentrating on temporal
phenomena-on stellar change-and on the observational base that helps set the stage for the
theory that links them all together.

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