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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]

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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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