Highlights of Astronomy

Highlights of Astronomy

Jacqueline Bergeron

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Springer Nature B.V.
Año de edición:
1992
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Astronomía, espacio y tiempo
ISBN:
9780792319153

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Preface. Invited Discourses: Gravitational Lensing. Retrospect on Voyager. Observational Problems in Extragalactic Astronomy. Joint Discussions: I. An Overview of the Interstellar Medium. II. Reference Systems: What are They and What’s the Problem? III. Results from SOAT and GRO and Other Recent High Energy Astrophysics Missions. IV. Cosmic Background. V. Origin of Stars of Planetary Systems. VI. HIPPARCOS -- an Assessment. VII. First Results from the Hubble Space Telescope. Joint Commission Meetings: I. Rotation of Solar System Bodies. II. Automated Telescopes for Photometry and Imaging, Performance and Results with IR Arrays. III. Atomic and Molecular Data for Space Astronomy: Needs and Availability. IV. A Proposal for an International Antarctic Observatory. V. Late Evolution of Low Mass Stars. VI. Solar and Stellar Coronae. VII. High-Redshift Galaxies. VIII. Archiving of Current Observational Data (including Solar System Data). Special Contributions: Commission 9: Instrumentation. Commission 46: Teaching of Astronomy. Index of Authors.

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