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SPRINGER PRAXIS BOOKS THE PILLARS OF CREATION...

This book explores the mechanics of star formation  the process by which matter pulls together
and creates new structures. Written for science enthusiasts  the author presents an accessible
explanation of how stars are born from the interstellar medium and giant molecular clouds.
Stars produce the chemicals that lead to life  and it is they that have enabled the conditions
for planets to form and life to emerge. Although the Big Bang provided the spark of initiation
the primordial universe that it sired was born hopelessly sterile. It is only through the
continued recycling of the interstellar medium  star formation  and stellar evolution that the
universe has been animated beyond a chaotic mess of elementary atomic particles  radiation 
dark matter  dark energy  and expanding spacetime. Using the Milky Way and the Eagle Nebula in
particular as case studies  Beech follows every step of this amazing process.

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