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100 billion suns : the birth, life, and death of the stars / Rudolf Kippenhahn ; translated by Jean Steinberg.
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- ISBN: 0691087814 (pbk. : acid-free paper) :
- ISBN: 9780691087818 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
- Physical Description: viii, 268 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1993]
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- Originally published: New York : Basic Books, c1983. With new foreword.Translation of: Hundert Milliarden Sonnen.Includes index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Introduction -- The long life of stars -- The astrophysicist's most important diagram -- Stars as nuclear power plants -- Stars and stellar models -- The life history of the Sun -- The life story of massive stars -- Highly evolved stars -- Pulsars do not pulsate -- When stars steal mass from other stars -- X-ray stars -- The end of stars -- How stars are born -- Planets and their inhabitants -- Appendix A: The velocity of stars -- Appendix B: How the universe is measured -- Appendix C: Weighing the stars -- Afterword to the Princeton science library edition.
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- Stars > Evolution.
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lummi Library | QB 806 .K5313 | 255356 | Stacks | Available | - |
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| 260 | . | ‡aPrinceton, N.J. : ‡bPrinceton University Press, ‡c[1993] | |
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| 500 | . | ‡aOriginally published: New York : Basic Books, c1983. With new foreword. | |
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