The New Cosmos

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Classical Astronomy

   • R. C. Smith

   Pages 1-104

3. Sun and Stars

   • R. C. Smith

   Pages 105-218

4. Stellar Systems

   • R. C. Smith

   Pages 219-412

5. A Summary of Selected Recent Results

   • R. C. Smith

   Pages 413-439

6. Back Matter

   Pages 441-479

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to the Second Edition The development of astronomy in the last ten years has been nothing short of explosive. This second edition of The New Cosmos, considerably revised and enlarged, tries to share this development with its readers. Let us mention a few key words: from mo on landings, planetary probes, aild continental drift through pulsars, X-ray and y-ray sources, interstellar molecules, quasars, and the structure and evolution of stars and stellar systems right up to cosmological models. As before, the most important task of this book is to give a not too difficult introduction to present-day astronomy and astrophysics, both to the student of astronomy and to the specialist from a neighboring discipline. We therefore draw to the attention of the reader, as an essential part of our description, the numerous illustrations-many of them new-and their detailed captions. As far as possible we link a description of important observations with basic features of the theory. On the other hand, when it comes to detail we often content ourselves with abrief description, leaving the detailed explanation to the specialist literature. The transition to the specialist literature should be eased by the Bibliography at the end of the book. Important new investigations are noted in the text by their year, not so much for historical reasons as to enable the original work to be found in the Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts (1969 on).

• Astronomie
• astronomy
• astrophysics
• cosmology
• galaxy
• milky way
• planet
• quasar
• sun

• Institut für Theoretische Physik und Sternwarte der Universität, 23 Kiel, Federal Republic of Germany

  Albrecht Unsöld

• Institut für Theoretische Physik, Der Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg 1, Federal Republic of Germany

  Bodo Baschek

• Physics Building, Astronomy Centre, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, England

  R. C. Smith

• Department of Mathematics, Lyndon State College, Lyndonville, USA

  Carl A. Hein

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